The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced that the country’s government would declare Bitcoin as legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar. In a video broadcast to a multiday conference Miami Bitcoin 2021, the president announced El Salvador’s partnership with Strike, a digital wallet company, to build the country’s modern financial infrastructure using Bitcoin technology….
Anonymous, a decentralized international ‘hacktivism’ movement known for cyber attacks against several governments since 2003, posted a video on Friday addressed to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In the video, they called Musk “nothing more than another narcissistic rich dude who is desperate for attention” and accused him of “destroying crypto holders’ lives” and attempting to…
On Thursday cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase started listing Dogecoin, the original meme-based asset, on its Pro platform. The exchange will try to surge interest in the cryptocurrency by a $1.2 million giveaway. Coinbase retail users can now sell, buy and store Dogecoin on the exchange, the company said in a blog post. To boost up…
According to a recent analysis by crypto news site Protos, non-fungible token (NFT) sales plummeted 90% since the record sales on May 3. Market data shows over 130,000 NFT sales in a single day, and 30 days later, NFT sales dropped more than 35% last month, reaching over 84,000. Since peaking on May 3, when…
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a “farce” and a symptom of financial bubbles forming in the markets, said Pascal Blanque, chief investment officer (CIO) at Amundi. Reuters reports that Blanque said at the news conference on Thursday, cryptocurrency regulators will ultimately “stop the music” and be forced to end the party. In a recent research…
National Bank of Egypt and UAE Financial Service Provider Set to Leverage Decentralized Payments Network RippleNet The National Bank of Egypt (NBE) has partnered with Ripple (XRP) to establish a cross-border payments corridor with the United Arab Emirates via RippleNet, according to a press release published on Tuesday. “Egypt ranks amongst the top five countries…