Tag: Cryptocurrency

Deloitte, one of the Big Four, surveyed financial leaders as part of its 2021 Global Blockchain Survey, with the results suggesting a transition to digital assets is inevitable. Cybersecurity, regulation, and privacy are seen as the biggest obstacles to the global adoption of digital assets, according to a survey. Of 1,280 executives surveyed across Asia,…

Major fashion house Philipp Plein, based in London, has started accepting 15 different types of cryptocurrency, expecting the biggest impact to be through its online channels over in-store purchases. The company’s founder believes that other leading brands will follow his suit. Switzerland-based Philipp Plein Group in early August announced accepting various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and…

Walmart, the largest U.S. retailer by total sales, is looking to hire a “digital currency and cryptocurrency product lead” to “own and drive the digital currency strategy,” following Amazon looking for ways to let customers pay for goods with cryptocurrencies, which could be a promising development for the crypto community. According to Walmart’s careers page,…

Roger Parloff for Yahoo Finance “I hope to never be as wrong as I was in that conversation,” says Adam Yedidia. He is reflecting on a chat he had with Sam Bankman-Fried, his close friend and former MIT classmate, in fall 2017. Bankman-Fried was then inviting Yedidia to join him in launching a trading firm…

According to a new KPMG report, cryptocurrency and blockchain investments continue to grow thanks to ever-rising investor interest and have already doubled the value since 2020. Investors now have a better understanding of crypto assets and the operational and procedural side of crypto, a report claims. The study, titled “Pulse of Fintech H1 2021,” covers…

The cryptocurrency market has continued a notable rise, surging $700 billion over the past 21 days, with the total market capitalization breaking $1.9 trillion. Crypto markets have maintained a bullish trend in early August, surging or 58% over three weeks and nearing $2 trillion in market capitalization. According to data of CoinGecko, the total crypto…