On April 22, the payments giant Stripe announced that it is expanding global payouts with crypto assets via a new pilot. Stripe’s crypto executive Karan Sharma revealed crypto payouts for the firm’s C...
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Unlike China, the Bank of Japan is Not Willing to Conduct Large Scale Pilot Tests for Digital Yen
Central banks worldwide have accelerated the developments when it comes to building their own central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). However, the Bank of Japan is not willing to press ahead with its...
Central Bank of Brazil Confirms It Will Run a Pilot Test for Its CBDC This Year – News Bitcoin News
The Central Bank of Brazil has confirmed that the institution will run a pilot test regarding the implementation of its proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital real. Roberto Campos ...
Boeing Stock Climbs Higher, Shrugging Off India’s 737 MAX Pilot Ban
Text size A Boeing 737 MAX jet. Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images The Indian aviation regulator has barred 90 pilots from flying Boeing 737 MAX jets due to concerns over the simulators used to trai...
Brazil Says It Will start Its Pilot Test for a CBDC in Q2 2022
Brazil’s central bank has unveiled plans to start a central bank digital currency pilot program that will be launched in 2022. The sovereign national digital currency will be based on fiat currency an...
Delivery App Rappi Launches Pilot Project to Accept Crypto Payments in Mexico – Bitcoin News
Rappi, one of the biggest delivery companies in Latam, has launched a pilot project with the objective of accepting cryptocurrencies as a payment method. Users will be able to buy Rappi credits with c...
Brazilian Central Bank Exec Says CBDC Pilot to Go Live this Year
Roberto Campos Neto, the President of the Central Bank of Brazil, has confirmed that there will be a pilot testing of the country’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), dubbed the Digital Real. The p...
Brazil Plans CBDC Pilot for Second Half of 2022
Key Takeaways The president of Brazil’s central bank, Roberto Campos Neto, discussed the country’s CBDC plans during an Apr. 11 event. Neto suggested that Brazil’s central bank digit...
Iran shuns crypto payment and prepares to pilot crypto rial
TL;DR Breakdown Iran makes preparations to launch its digital currency, crypto rial. Bitcoin and Altcoins are no longer regarded as legal currencies in the Islamic nation. According to a high-ranking ...
Rappi Launches Crypto Payment Pilot Program; Partners BitPay and Bitso
Colombia-based technology company Rappi has launched a crypto payment pilot program in Mexico for its mobile app. The launch of the new initiative by the company now allows Mexican users of the app to...
Brazilian central bank president confirms CBDC pilot will launch in 2022
The president of the Central Bank of Brazil confirmed that the country’s sovereign digital currency pilot will go live this year, Cointelegraph Brazil reported. The confirmation about the digital curr...
Iran Will Not Allow Crypto Payments, Prepares to Pilot Digital Rial – Finance Bitcoin News
Iran will not recognize cryptocurrencies as a means of payment, a high-ranking government official has indicated. His statement came as the Central Bank of Iran announced rules for the issuance of dig...
Delivery App Rappi Deploys Crypto Payments Pilot in Mexico
Rappi, a Colombian delivery app and startup Startup A company operating within its first stage of investing is known as a startup. While startups may give the impression that the company must be new...
China’s WeChat joins the digital yuan pilot program
TL; DR Breakdown China WeChat joins the Digital Yuan pilot program High court outlaws cryptocurrency transactions as unlawful monetary services According to an announcement published on April 7, WeCha...
WeChat To Support Digital RMB Pilot Payment Functions
China’s WeChat app will support digital yuan payments as it joins the pilot program. The program for the CBDC recently expanded to include 11 more cities. China’s popular social media app WeChat will ...
Swedish Central Bank Concludes Second Phase of e-Krona Pilot, Kickstarts Phase-3
The central bank of Sweden has released a new report on the e-krona pilot project on Wednesday. The report not only marked the conclusion of Phase-2 for the CBDC pilot, but also chalked out the object...
China’s Central Bank Adds More Digital Yuan Pilot Cities – Altcoins Bitcoin News
China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, has added more cities to test its digital currency. According to the latest official data, the digital yuan has more than 261 million users. PBOC Adds...
People’s Bank of China Includes 11 More Cities in Digital Yuan Pilot Program
The People’s Bank of China has announced that its digital yuan pilot program will support 11 more cities. Residents in some of these cities have already begun to have access to digital yuan wallets. C...
Congress Is Discussing a Digital Dollar Pilot. It’s Not What You Think
In brief The ECASH Act seeks to pilot a digital dollar led by the Treasury Department. The electronic currency would not use digital ledger technology. Quick. What’s the first thing you know abo...
Exxon runs gas-to-Bitcoin mining pilot program
Bitcoin mining operations are facing hits across the world due to its energy consumption and environmental impacts. Reportedly, Exxon Mobil Corp. has recently announced that the firm is participating ...
Gas Giant Exxon Is Running a Gas-to-Bitcoin Mining Pilot Program in North Dakota – Bitcoin News
Exxon Mobil Corporation is reportedly participating in a pilot program that leverages excess natural gas to power crypto mining machines, according to a recent report quoting people familiar with the ...
ExxonMobil Running Pilot Project to Supply Flared Gas for Bitcoin Mining: Report
In 2019, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips were among the founding members of the OOC Oil & Gas Blockchain Consortium, a group of energy companies looking to establish “key blockchain standards, frame...
Exxon might launch its ‘gas-to-bitcoin’ pilot project in five new locations
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) plans on expanding its gas-to-bitcoin pilot programme, launched in North Dakota last year, to five new locations, anonymous sources told Bloomberg on Thursday. What...
Exxon pilot project uses wasted flare gas for crypo mining: report
advertisement Exxon is reportedly diverting some of the natural gas it has no use for to power crypto mining operations, with a pilot program in North Dakota. The oil and gas behemoth has partnered wi...
FAA Official Testifies Former Boeing Pilot Lied About 737 MAX
FORT WORTH, Texas—A Federal Aviation Administration training specialist said a former Boeing Co. BA -3.59% pilot lied to her about how a 737 MAX flight-control system worked before two of the jets cra...
Melos Studio Set To Pilot Its Web 3.0 Content Discovery Mechanism
March 14, 2022 – Singapore, Singapore Melos Studio, a music NFT creation platform, plans to launch a web 3.0 content discovery mechanism this year. The platform aims to design this discovery mechanism...
Akon’s Crypto Hits $5M Volume at Kenyan Pilot Facility, as Ex-Associate Criticizes Akon City as ‘Ponzi Scheme’
Akoin, the cryptocurrency founded by music superstar and philanthropist Akon, has reached $5 million in total transaction volume (TVL) since it began as a pilot for payments at a high-tech smart city ...
California pilot program turns GM’s EVs into roving battery packs
While not nearly as much of a mess as Texas’ energy infrastructure, California’s power grid has seen its fair share of brownouts, rolling blackouts, and power outages caused by wildfires c...