McDonald’s El Salvador will now be accepting bitcoin payments in partnership with bitcoin payment processor OpenNode, according to a press release. Such payments will be enabled via the Bitcoin Lightning Network and available at all 19 El Salvador McDonald’s locations. “We are incredibly excited to...
Belgium-based parking startup Seety has rolled out cryptocurrency payment support for parking tickets, Cointelegraph reported. As of Thursday (Sept. 2), users of Seety will be able to use bitcoin to pay parking tickets in the cities of Antwerp and Brussels, according to the report. Customers...
Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, said he wants the government to begin mining cryptocurrency using spare power infrastructure, Cointelegraph reported. Lukashenko, speaking at the opening of the Petrikovsky mining and processing plant Friday (Aug. 27), said workers should be pursuing crypto mining rather than leaving...
Genesis Digital Assets, a bitcoin mining company, has set out to purchase 20,000 new bitcoin mining systems from Canaan, a blockchain hardware giant, according to a press release. “The bitcoin mining machines from this latest purchase order are part of our ongoing efforts to rapidly...
Brazilian federal police have uncovered around $27.6 million in bitcoin after a series of reported Ponzi schemes from one company, The Daily Hodl reported. The company, based in Rio de Janeiro, allegedly operated the Ponzi schemes and stole from victims using bitcoin, the report stated....
Netki, a Los Angeles-based know your customer (KYC)-anti-money laundering (AML) regulatory technology provider, has begun working with Polymath, a blockchain technology provider, to add blockchain-specific identity verification to the blockchain Polymesh that Polymath has created, according to a press release. The goal of the collaboration...
PAWS Chicago, which is devoted to building no-kill animal shelters, has begun taking “dogenations,” or donations in various kinds of cryptocurrency, according to a press release. This comes as the result of a collaboration the company did with Leo Burnett, an advertising agency that has...
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said the country’s government-supported cryptocurrency wallet will be live at the beginning of September, The Block reported. The Chivo wallet, which will be made available Sept. 7, will be optional for use, although those who download it will reportedly receive $30...
OpenSea, a nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace, has gone past $1 billion in monthly transactions, The Block reported. The company’s new surge comes as Google searches for NFTs hit an all-time high, according to the report. The company’s trading volume increased 286 percent from July to August...
