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These 12 Countries Will Pay Their Olympians Six-Figure Bonuses For Winning Gold Medals
Americans who stand atop the podium in Beijing will score a cash prize of $37,500—not bad, but a pittance relative to what some other nations are offering. MMost athletes who compete at the Olympics c...
Binance Now Plans To Extend Its Services In Russia Its Adjacent Countries!
The leading cryptocurrency exchange platform, Binance, is now planning to stretch out its services in Russia and its adjacent countries and aim to acquire a license to do so in regions where it is all...
Tanzanian Fintech Raises $10 Million, Plans to Enter 12 More African Countries – Fintech Bitcoin News
A Tanzanian fintech startup revealed it has raised $10 million in its latest funding round and is planning to use the funds to finance an expansion into other African countries. Fintech Plans to Enter...
Play-To-Earn That Will Impact Developing Countries
Over the past few years, the popularity of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has rapidly increased, leading to permeation into the mainstream financial sector. For developing countries, adoption of cryptoc...
Countries have banned crypto and tightened the rules around it
Crypto has been banned by several countries and continue to be ignorant for the same India is starting to crackdown on crypto as well following her neighbor, Bangladesh Regulations, taxes and bullish...
Here are the countries that moved to outlaw crypto in the past year
Last week, Pakistan’s Sindh High Court held a hearing on the legal status of digital currencies that might lead an outright ban of cryptocurrency trading combined with penalties against crypto exchang...
Bank of Russia Wants a Bitcoin Ban. Here’s How That’s Gone in Other Countries
In brief The Bank of Russia has proposed a full ban on cryptocurrencies. A handful of other countries have taken such a step. Dozens more have implicit bans in place. The Bank of Russia on Thursday is...
Countries & Central Banks Will Buy BTC
Surprising the world, Fidelity predicts what Bitcoin’s game theory implies. It’s as Satoshi Nakamoto said, “It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on.” That’s the exact same conclusio...
From tuk tuks to COVID tests, YouTuber tests Bitcoin use cases across multiple countries
A YouTuber started a journey in September to see whether he could survive solely on Bitcoin as a means of payment while traveling to 40 different countries. Speaking to Cointelegraph on Monday, YouTub...
Fidelity Thinks More Countries Will Buy BTC
According to investment firm Fidelity, 2022 will be a year in which more countries purchase bitcoin and add the digital currency to their balance sheets as a means of remaining competitive. Fidelity B...
Fidelity Expects More Countries to Acquire Bitcoin Citing ‘Very High Stakes Game Theory’ – Featured Bitcoin News
Fidelity expects more sovereign nation states, or even a central bank, to acquire bitcoin this year. “There is very high stakes game theory at play here, whereby if bitcoin adoption increases, the cou...
Investment Giant Fidelity Says Countries That Adopt Bitcoin Early May Outperform Their Peers: Report
Financial services giant Fidelity says that more nations will buy Bitcoin (BTC) this year to remain competitive. In a new report, strategists at the firm say that a high-stakes form of game theory is ...
25% of Small Businesses in 9 Countries Plan to Accept Crypto Payments in 2022 (Visa Study)
According to a recent survey conducted by the payment processor giant Visa, almost a quarter of the participants across nine nations said they intend to embrace digital currencies as a form of payment...
‘Astonishing’—An Investment Giant Just Advised Countries And Central Banks To Buy Bitcoin While The Price Is Low
Bitcoin soared through much of 2021, helped on by the likes of Tesla TSLA and El Salvador embracing the cryptocurrency (though Tesla CEO Elon Musk is increasingly backing the meme-based dogecoin). Sub...
Crypto Could Soon Pose Risks to Countries’ Financial Stability – Regulation Bitcoin News
Economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) say that “crypto assets are no longer on the fringe of the financial system.” In addition, they “could soon pose risks to financial stability especi...
Visa, Consensys partner to build a ‘CBDC Sandbox’ for countries and institutions
Payments giant Visa has deepened its involvement in the digital currency space with a new partnership focused on central bank digital currencies (CBDC). The firm has teamed up with blockchain technolo...
Leading Crypto Exchange BitYard Offers Trading in Over 150 Countries
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Nearly 25% of Small Businesses in 9 Countries Intend to Roll Out Crypto Payment Option: Visa
Payment giant Visa conducted a study indicating that almost a quarter of small businesses spread across nine nations intend to introduce the crypto payment option this year as cryptocurrencies continu...
Revolut Rolls Out Banking Services to 10 More European Countries
Revolut announced on Tuesday that it has expanded its banking services to 10 more European countries, which will offer deposit protection of up to €100,000 to customers. The newly added countries are ...
Covid vaccine could be cleared in multiple countries soon
The Novavax coronavirus vaccine could be cleared by regulators for use in multiple countries, including the U.S., in the coming months, the vaccine maker’s CEO said Monday. The company has filed...
Covid is more prevalent in these countries than in the U.S. and U.K.
Tourists visit the Acropolis archaeological site in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Nick Paleologos | Bloomberg | Getty Images The emergence of the highly transmissible omicron variant has s...
CBDCs: Mexico, China and other countries
Mexico could be the next country to launch its own CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). This 2022 could ultimately be the year of consecration of central bank digital currencies in different countrie...
Devere Group CEO Predicts 3 Countries Will Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender This Year – Featured Bitcoin News
The CEO of financial advisory and asset management firm Devere Group has predicted that three countries will adopt bitcoin as legal tender this year. He is more bullish than El Salvador’s president wh...
How could the instability in developing countries alter the Bitcoin mining landscape?
Following the news about nationwide protests in Kazakhstan causing an internet blackout in the Bitcoin mining country that resulted in a significant hash rate drop, CryptoSlate talked to Alan Konevsky...
50 countries lieu the polar side of banning cryptocurrencies as of 2021
In 2021, Cryptocurrencies marked their mainstream adoption, where many countries went berserk for or against the tokens The blanket ban imposed by the Chinese caused waves of regulatory discussions a...
Which countries are on track to meet the WHO Covid vaccination target?
A health worker prepares Pfizer vaccine boosters for clients on December 01, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Lisa Maree Williams | Getty Images The U.S. is among the countries projected to miss the WHOR...
Cryptocurrencies Are Facing an Absolute Ban in 9 Countries
China is surprisingly not the only country with an outright ban on cryptocurrency, as eight other jurisdictions have also applied an absolute ban on digital currencies. These jurisdictions are Egypt, ...
The number of countries banning crypto has doubled in three years
Although 2021 was a good year for the cryptocurrency industry in terms of market performance, the number of jurisdictions banning crypto has more than doubled since 2018. A report by the Library of Co...