Rap star Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has filed several trademark applications that show the musician might be preparing to mint his own non-fungible tokens (NFTs), alongside a wide range of physical products. According to trademark attorney Josh Gerben, Ye has filed 17 new trademark applications around his YEEZUS name, which indicate the…
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Global insurers aim to maintain a risk-on investment approach, with higher allocations to private equity, green bonds, and middle-market corporate loans, but also cryptoassets, according to a report by Goldman Sachs Insurance Asset Management. The survey represents the views of 328 chief investment officers and chief financial officers handling more than USD 13tn in…
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A report from Jack Dorsey’s Block, Inc. (formerly Square) has concluded that bitcoin (BTC) will play an increasingly large role in the payment and remittance sectors – and that the more people’s peers own BTC, the more likely they are to invest…. Read More: 40% of Surveyed Lower-income Individuals Want to Use Bitcoin –…
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A new luxury apartment complex in the upscale neighborhood of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will become the first of its kind to feature a Bitcoin (BTC) mining facility – to help its residents “get paid to live” in their apartments. Per the media outlet La Nacion, as well as Interesting Engineering, the new…
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A report on the state of crypto in the Latin America region has concluded that adoption is likely to continue apace for the rest of the year – and will find fertile ground for growth in the world of cross-border payments and “crypto credit cards.” The report was issued by Americas Market Intelligence (AMI),…
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The Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has indicated that he may be open to reforming the nation’s much-maligned crypto tax laws in a bid to spark Web3-related growth…. Read More: Japan’s Prime Minister Reportedly Open to Idea of Crypto Tax Reform Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
Crypto adoption is on the march in Brazil – where the government has all but incentivized mining by waiving tax duty on mining rig imports. And after a major property developer revealed that it will begin accepting bitcoin (BTC) pay for new apartments (see below), the Brazilian media outlet Exame listed nine “major” domestic…
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Play-to-earn (P2E) games based on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are most popular in India, where a whopping 34% of internet users who participated in a survey said that they had played such a game. Following India was Hong Kong, where 29% said they had played a play-to-earn game, and the United Arab Emirates, where 27%…
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Major money transfer company MoneyGram aims to launch a new service that would enable users to transfer money overseas via stablecoins. The initiative comes in partnership with the Stellar (XLM) blockchain, a decentralized protocol specializing in cross-border transactions, and it would enable users to convert their stablecoins to hard currency in MoneyGram agent locations,…
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