Tokyo’s new stablecoin could be one of the world’s most ambitious yet – after city authorities revealed plans to ensure that 50% of all payments made in the capital are made using the token by 2025. Per Nikkei, the city is banking on the fact that it already has a large range of infrastructure in…
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Mobile payments service MenaPay announced support for Twitch donations with their MenaCash stablecoin. Mobile payments service MenaPay announced support for Twitch tipping with their MenaCash stablecoin. Blockchain-based payments service MenaPay updated its mobile app to add support for Twitch donations, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Turkey on Dec. 27. Twitch viewers are…
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Transaction count, USD transaction volume and hash rate are among the wild successes Bitcoin has achieved this year, wholly separate from BTC price. Bitcoin (BTC) was, in fact, anything but bearish in 2019, as new data shows its technical strength has reached levels never seen before. An examination of three metrics — Bitcoin’s transaction count,…
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Recently, bitcoin price spiked above the USD 7,250 and USD 7,350 resistance levels. However, BTC/USD was rejected near the USD 7,400 level, resulting in a fresh decline. The price trimmed gains and it is now (09:00 UTC) consolidating near the USD 7,200 level. Likewise, most major altcoins are back to key support levels, including ethereum,…
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A comparatively quiet Christmas trading period sees attention focus to the first few months of next year, as Bitcoin’s block reward halving edges closer. Bitcoin (BTC) continued trading sideways on Dec. 27 after spending the Christmas period broadly free of volatility. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360 BTC “relaxes” this Christmas Data from Coin360 showed…
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The Industry Talk section features insights by crypto industry players and is not a part of the editorial content of Cryptonews.com. This article has been brought to you by DappRadar, a dapp data aggregator and analysis firm. ______ There are many ways to measure the success of the blockchain sector and the individual blockchains of…
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South Korea’s central bank plans to organize a task force dedicated to central bank digital currency research in the new year. South Korea’s central bank, the Bank of Korea (BOK), plans to organize a task force dedicated to central bank digital currency (CBDC) research in the new year. In its “Monetary Policy for 2020” brief,…
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After YouTube’s attack on crypto-related videos that lasted for several days, forcing quite a few creators into hiding for self-preservation, now the Google-owned giant says it wasn’t intentional, followed by the YouTubers’ return from exile. YouTube has finally provided a response to the situation and to individual channels, following days of silence and Read more…
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The Africa Blockchain Institute will open Rwanda’s ostensibly first blockchain school in 2020, offering five new courses for local developers, professionals and policymakers. The Africa Blockchain Institute (ABI) will open Rwanda’s ostensibly first blockchain school in 2020, offering five new courses for local developers, professionals and policymakers. In an interview with Cointelegraph on Dec. 26,…
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Anyone harboring hopes that Beijing was softening its hardline stance on cryptocurrencies after its latest blockchain drive appears to have been thwarted – with a host of regulators in the country ruling out policy changes. The crypto crackdown of 2017 was sweeping, with initial coin offerings (ICOs) banned, exchanges exiled or closed down and trading…
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