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Bitcoin Tops $42.5K, Commerzbank Revives Hopes of Mainstream Crypto Adoption
“Despite retail being fearful and uninterested, institutional adoption continues as the second-largest listed bank in Germany, Commerzbank, has now applied for a local crypto license,” Mar...
The Scale And Challenges Facing Bitcoin Adoption In Africa Today
Bitcoin adoption implies that it will be accepted as sound money all over the world. A truly decentralized asset that can be used to securely transfer and store value. Africa is lagging behind in term...
A New Era of Mass Adoption – Shopify To Bring Bitcoin to a Quarter of Global Population
HodlX Guest Post Submit Your Post Strike’s partnership with Shopify, Blackhawk Network and NCR allows people to use Bitcoin in a much more mainstream way, ditching traditional payment system monopo...
IMF Says Adoption of Crypto Could Undermine Political Power, Urges ‘Global Standards’
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning against the dangers of unregulated crypto in a newly released report. In the new Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF suggests that domestic poli...
Adoption in Argentina Grows, With 12 out of 100 Adults Having Invested in Crypto – Bitcoin News
Argentinians are very interested in cryptocurrencies, according to a survey made by Americas Markets Intelligence. According to data sourced from the study, more than one in ten Argentinians have made...
Bitcoin Core Devs Optimistic, Despite Low Taproot Adoption
Despite bitcoin’s Taproot activation in November 2021, data available from transactionfee.info indicates that only approximately 0.37 percent of all Bitcoin transactions use Taproot, as opposed to 85%...
Brazil’s Push to Crypto Adoption and What Does it Mean (Op-Ed)
This week lawmakers in Brazil pushed to advance a bill that would legalize and regulate cryptocurrency— the National Congress of Brazil’s House bill 4401/21. Senator Iraja Abreu, who sponsored a Senat...
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Says Crypto Adoption Will Ramp Up in 2022 – Here’s Why
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao believes crypto adoption will expand this year as governments around the world progressively take larger roles in regulating digital assets. In a new interview, the co-found...
NFTs and Crypto: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy discusses the likely chance of adoption
TL;DR Breakdown Amazon CEO Andy Jassy spoke in Squawk Box, discussing the prospects of NFTs and crypto. He revealed that he doesn’t own Bitcoin, NFTs, or any other crypto asset. Jassy believed that Am...
Quantum computing firm simulates adoption of crypto payments
Multiverse Computing, a quantum computing firm with offices in Canada and Spain, has partnered with the Bank of Canada to run simulations on how the adoption of cryptocurrency might proceed as a payme...
Bank of Canada Using Quantum Computing to Simulate Crypto Adoption Scenarios
The Bank of Canada has become the first G7 country to turn to quantum computing to simulate scenarios where cryptocurrency and fiat currency can coexist. This week, Multiverse Computing, the startup l...
Bitcoin Lightning Network Adoption Balloons Driven by Host of Integrations
Six years ago when the Lightning Network was conceived, it was hard to imagine that the network’s usage would prove so popular. But according to data from Bitcoinvisuals, a Bitcoin (BTC) on-chain trac...
Latin American Bitcoin adoption gathers pace as Brazil makes its move
A comprehensive regulatory framework for Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency in Brazil is moving closer to reality. Lawmakers will push for draft proposals to be implemented in the first half of 2022. If...
KuCoin Releases KCS whitepaper – a Path for Geek to Mass Adoption
KuCoin recently co-released the KCS whitepaper with KCS management foundation and KCC to outline the key details about its native KuCoin Token (KCS). It’s a new milestone for the KCS considering that...
Crypto Adoption in Nigeria is Fueled by Limited Access to Financial Services (Study)
According to research conducted by KuCoin, the growing number of Nigerians investing in crypto is propelled by the lack of proper fiat-based opportunities. The study revealed that over 30 million of N...
ZoidPay Partners with Fetch.ai to Drive Global Adoption for FET
ZoidPay, a platform that allows users to shop anything from anywhere using cryptocurrency, is collaborating with Fetch.ai, the world’s first adaptive, self-organizing, and open-source ledger powered b...
Shinhan bank Opens Door to Corporate Crypto Accounts, Paving the Way for Institutional Adoption
As the first domestic lender on South Korean soil, Shinhan Bank has rolled out real-name corporate accounts to enable transactions from cash to crypto-based on its partnership with cryptocurrency exch...
Inflation is driving crypto adoption in emerging economies
While there are many use cases for the crypto industry, the most popular use appears to be as a hedge against rising inflation. A recent Twitter thread by CoinMarketCap has revealed that citizens of c...
Samson Mow introduces new nation-state adoption for crypto in Bitcoin 2022
Speaking at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Samson Mow, former chief strategy officer of Blockstream, named three new jurisdictions that would be adopting or proposing to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as ...
Growing crypto adoption in luxury
More and more luxury brands are adopting crypto in their payment systems, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple. Cryptos Break into the Luxury Market More and more luxury brands accept crypto for the...
Samson Mow Introduces New State BTC Adoption at Bitcoin Convention Session
At a recent Bitcoin conference, ex-CSO Blockstream Samson Mow brought on representatives from three regions to discuss Bitcoin adoption. Samson Mow, former chief strategy officer of Blockstream, named...
Bolt To Accelerate Mainstream Bitcoin Adoption With Wyre Acquisition
Payments provider Bolt has announced plans to acquire cryptocurrency infrastructure provider Wyre to allow its customers to have more access to Bitcoin and the NFT space. The acquisition deal is sched...
Bolt to Acquire Wyre, Speeding up Mainstream Crypto Adoption
Bolt, a leading US checkout and shopper network firm, announced Thursday its definitive agreement to acquire Wyre Inc., a cryptocurrency infrastructure provider based in San Francisco. Bolt disclosed ...
Jurisdictions in Honduras, Portugal unveil Bitcoin adoption plans
Ex-Blockstream chief strategy officer Samson Mow brought three guests on stage at Bitcoin 2022 to give updates on bitcoin adoption plans in their various countries. However, no government official ann...
Strike joins Shopify in massive push for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network adoption
At the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami today, Jack Mallers, the CEO of peer-to-peer payments app Strike, announced an integration with e-commerce giant Shopify that would allow merchants to receive f...
US House Bill To Offset El Salvador’s BTC Adoption
Two US House members have proposed a new bill in order to ‘mitigate the risks’ of El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal currency. El Salvador’s Decision Still Incites US Legislations The bill wa...
Altcoin Built on Ethereum Blasts Into Stratosphere With 425% Rally As Two Crypto Exchanges Boost Adoption
A decentralized exchange (DEX) that offers cross-chain swaps is soaring after its native token received the green light from a pair of cryptocurrency marketplaces. TitanSwap (TITAN) first dropped a hi...
Yearn.finance advocates for the adoption of ERC-4626 tokenized vault standard
Following the successful deployment of 25 previous Ethereum Request for Comments (ERC) standards — including the industry recognized ERC-20 for fungible tokens, ERC-721 for nonfungible tokens (NFTs), ...