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0 CommentsTwitter founder Jack Dorsey and rapper Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter will fund a Bitcoin education program for residents of Marcy Houses, a public housing complex in Brooklyn where Jay-Z grew up. Dorsey said he thinks Bitcoin can be an important tool in empowering marginalized communities. Starting this summer, residents of Marcy Houses in Brooklyn will be…
According to a survey conducted by Deloitte, over 85% of merchants are giving high or very high priority to enabling cryptocurrency payments. Furthermore, nearly three-quarters of those surveyed reported plans to accept cryptocurrency or stablecoin payments within the next 24 months. Deloitte, one of the Big Four major financial services firms, published on June 8…
The $1.19 trillion crypto economy is now lower in value than the July 2021 lows. Over the last week, digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, and XRP, have shed significant value against the US dollar, as the top cryptos have lost from 50% to 80% against their all-time highs. During the last seven days, the…
Bitcoin’s price sank following the latest US Consumer Price Index (CPI) release, which showed that the index had unexpectedly hit 8.6%, reaching its highest level in 40 years. Despite economists’ expectation that the CPI figure to remain flat at 8.3%, the same as April, the Labor Department’s announcement on June 10 defied that inflation is…
On June 7, PayPal announced that crypto users can now move funds off its platform to external wallets and hardware devices, a long-awaited feature that will make the company’s offering more like other popular cryptocurrency services. “Starting today, PayPal supports the native transfer of cryptocurrencies between PayPal and other wallets and exchanges,” the payment platform…
The Ministry of Tourism in Saudi Arabia plans to give personalized NFTs to each delegate at the 116th Executive Council of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in Jeddah, Aljoharah Al-Mogbel, Digital Transformation General Manager at the Ministry of Tourism, announced. As she told Arab News, each delegate would receive a gift box containing…
