MasterCard will allow its almost one billion users to spend cryptocurrencies at more than 30 million merchants, although it hasn’t specified which coins will be supported. MasterCard has announced plans to …
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Amazon is About to Launch a ‘Digital Currency’ Project in Mexico
Amazon’s grip on the internet economy appears to be coming for currency next, with the e-commerce giant preparing to launch a “digital currency” project in Mexico. The yet-to-be-announced project, which …
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Monero proposed to add XMR as a payment option on the Tesla website
The Monero community has raised $150,000 as part of a proposal to add XMR as a payment option on the Tesla website. Shortly after Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors hinted that they …
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Twitter CFO says social media giant considers whether to add Bitcoin to its balance sheet
In an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Segal said if Twitter employees and vendors ask to be paid in bitcoin, then the company may consider investing in bitcoin as part of its treasury. …
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Elon Musk Gives Investors Advice on Cryptocurrency Wallets
On Wednesday (February 10), Elon Musk, the world’s second-richest person (according to Forbes’ “The Real-Time Billionaires List“), a co-founder of PayPal, founder, and CEO of SpaceX, and a co-founder and …
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Total crypto market cap hits $1.4T and surpasses Google stock
Cryptocurrency markets have hit a significant milestone shortly after Elon Musk’s Tesla officially announced their investment in Bitcoin (BTC). For the first time in history, the crypto market has surpassed Alphabet’s GOOG …
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Unknown client from Russia stacked 20,000 Bitcoin miners in Siberia
Russia has reportedly imported thousands of cryptocurrency mining devices amid a massive surge in the crypto market. A senior executive at BitRiver, the largest crypto-mining colocation services provider in Russia, claimed …
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IOTA Has Released its Own Decentralized Oracle
Incorporating off-chain, real-world data is crucial to the functionality of decentralized applications that rely on outside information. Most applications and platforms need to integrate data that is not available on-chain …
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Nervos announced a $5 million fund to back DeFi projects
China’s Nervos Network has launched a $5 million fund to support projects building decentralized exchanges, lending platforms, and other DeFi protocols. According to a Feb. 10 announcement from Nervos, the fund will …
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Dogecoin search volume on Baidu has increased to 10x the levels witnessed in 2017
The search volume of Dogecoin (DOGE) on Baidu has seen an explosion since Elon Musk started tweeting about the meme-coin. According to data by the team at LongHash, Dogecoin’s search volume on the popular …
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