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Airbnb CEO hints heavily at adding crypto as a payment option
Online vacation rental marketplace Airbnb may soon be adding crypto as a payment option. Soon after the new year, CEO Brian Chesky asked Twitter, “If Airbnb could launch anything in 2022, what would i...
Airbnb CEO Dabbles With Adding Crypto Payments in 2022
American home rental firm Airbnb Inc. might soon join the growing list of companies that accept cryptocurrencies as payment options for services. Airbnb to Accept Crypto Payments? The possibility of A...
London travel network cracks down on crypto ads amid regulation blitz
London transport authorities have tightened the reins on crypto advertising following a number of rulings by the UK’s marketing regulator. Short of an outright ban, a spokesperson for Transport for L...
Long-Term Holders Accumulated $112,573,560,000 Worth of Bitcoin in 2021, According to Crypto Intelligence Firm Glassnode
Long-term holders bought into Bitcoin (BTC) in a huge way last year, according to crypto analytics firm Glassnode. In a new report, the firm notes long-term holders (LTHs) of BTC, entities that have k...
UK advertiser ASA continues crypto ad banning spree
The United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority, or ASA, has ruled to place an official ban on two mobile application advertisements from popular trading platform Crypto.com which promoted the ea...
Following energy shortage, Kazakhstan is reining in 2021’s stampede of crypto miners
In recent months Kazakhstan’s new regime for cryptocurrency mining has established a new registry that is growing at a rapid clip amid pressure on the country’s electrical grid. Amid issue...
Robinhood rolls out its crypto wallet integration in January
A beta version of a crypto wallet is due to launch this month. The wallet will add important functionality to the existing Robinhood trading app, enabling users to be able to send and receive crypto, ...
NASCAR Rejects ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Crypto Sponsorship Deal
NASCAR rejected a recent sponsorship based on the anti-President Biden placeholder chant “Let’s Go Brandon” earlier this week, per The Washington Post. Brandon Brown, a NASCAR drive...
Airbnb will adopt cryptocurrency payments
Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky said that users of the platform have been requesting to accept cryptocurrency payments for home and hotel bookings and it is therefore something the company will...
A Retrospective on Crypto Derivatives Innovation in 2021
Quick take: FLEX has grown from $0.05 in December 2020 to more than $5 today, representing 100x+ growth Assets under custody hit $1.2 billion CoinFLEX’s repo market went from millions to billions of d...
Drone Racing League Launches Play-To-Earn Crypto Game On Algorand Blockchain
The Drone Racing League custom drones, the Racer3, in action at Alexandra Palace for the Allianz … [+] World Championship. (Photo by Steven Paston/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty...
Crypto Will Stay in Estonia, But With Regulations
An official clarification regarding the draft legislation submitted not long ago, which also ignited rumors regarding the crypto ban, was revealed by the Estonian Finance Ministry. The proposed law, s...
Long-running crypto exchange CoinJar integrates Chainlink Price Feeds
CoinJar has integrated Chainlink (LINK/USD) Price Feeds to bring fair and accurate market rates to its cryptocurrency exchange, the platform’s team wrote on their Medium blog. Chainlink will enable Co...
Macro Guru Raoul Pal Says Crypto To Become Fastest-Growing Asset Class in History, Says It Could Reach This Market Cap by 2030
Real Vision chief executive Raoul Pal thinks crypto will become the fastest-growing asset class in world history. In a new interview with Bankless Brasil, Pal says crypto’s market cap could skyrocket ...
Avalanche’s John Wu Makes Crypto Predictions For 2022, Says Bitcoin Will Lose A Chunk Of Its Dominance To Altcoins ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Ava Labs President foresees a spike in cryptocurrency market capitalization to over $5 trillion. He notes that Ethereum recorded exponential growth b...
Crypto miners at risk amid protests post natural gas price hike
In the wake of the Chinese crypto ban, miners from the authoritarian nation relocated to the formerly up and coming hub for crypto, Kazakhstan. However, the narrative did not lay out according to the ...
WonderFi to Buy Crypto Platform Bitbuy
WonderFi Technologies yesterday announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase First Ledger Corp, the parent company of Canada’s Bitbuy Technologies, one of the leading...
WonderFi Technologies all set to acquire Canadian crypto platform Bitbuy in a $162 million deal
WonderFi Technologies Inc. backed by investor Kevin O’ Leary is all set to purchase Bitbuy, a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange in a $162 million deal. The acquisition will grant WonderFi full control ...
Banks in crypto: opportunities and challenges
2022 could be the year when banks finally enter the crypto sector. This is what Reuters claims. Why banks need to enter the crypto sector Bitcoin was born as a response to a crisis triggered by a bro...
US Must Modernize with Blockchain & Crypto or Lose the Race to China: CryptoDad
Former chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissions, Christopher Giancarlo, said that the U.S. is falling behind China’s technology race. The Communist-ruled nation is making significant...
Largest Ethereum Investors Splurge Over $260,000,000 on One Crypto Asset, Making It the Most Traded Token Among ETH Whales
Fresh data shows the world’s biggest Ethereum (ETH) whales are stocking up on an altcoin that powers a data feed service for the decentralized finance industry. The blockchain-transaction tracker Whal...
Airbnb CEO: Crypto Payments Top User Requests for 2022
On January 2, Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, asked his Twitter followers to share their ideas for new services the vacation rental platform could roll out in 2022. After sifting through r...
India Accuses WazirX of Tax Evasion, Future of Local Crypto Sector Remains Unclear
India’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, WazirX, has been accused by the country’s authorities of tax evasion worth $5.4 million (40.5 crore rupees). On December 31, the Mumbai office of the g...
Turkey’s rising inflation pushes citizens to crypto
In recent times, one of the major economic crises countries around the world have been facing is inflation; especially as a number of them are having to battle with the dwindling purchasing power of t...
WonderFi to Acquire Canadian Crypto Exchange Parent Firm First Ledger with $206M
WonderFi, a Vancouver-based and Canadian politician Kevin O’Leary-backed firm, announced the acquisition of First Ledger Corp., the parent company of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Bitbuy with $206 ...
The Bitcoin Buyers You Haven’t Heard About
On the frontline of crypto trading, Anton Chashchin, the Managing Partner of Bitfrost, presents his insights into the rising institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies and the buyers flying under the ...
Florida Gubernatorial Hopeful Nikki Fried to Accept Crypto Donations
Florida Gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried is accepting crypto donations for her campaign via the Florida Consumers First Committee to grant power back to the people. A committee called Florida Consu...
Kosovo Imposes Temporary Ban on Crypto Mining, Facing Local Electricity Crisis
Cryptocurrency miners in Kosovo are facing a temporary ban on crypto mining from the government to curb electricity consumption as the country faces a severe energy crisis. The country has reported se...
Crypto Industry Could Surge in 2022 on Stablecoin Regulations: Analysis
The year 2022 may be when regulatory frameworks are rolled out in the United States and globally, paving the way for greater crypto adoption. At the forefront of these legislations will be stablecoins...