Cointelegraph en Español presents a weekly digest of selected cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related news from the Spanish-speaking world. The Spanish-speaking world has seen major cryptocurrency and blockchain developments with a former Bolivian intelligence director claiming that Venezuela is full of secret crypto mining farms, extortionists who request Bitcoin (BTC) finding their way into Spain, and the…
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The Swiss blockchain industry seems to be recovered and even shows the employment growth in the sector, according to the main national industry body report. Recent data suggests that the Swiss blockchain industry is making impressive gains. The latest report by the country’s main industry body, Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC), for example, points…
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Making money, spending money, holding money, or just generally being around money, comes with a significant side effect, namely – taxes. The term itself evokes a desire to procrastinate, imagining hours and days of manual calculations and headache. Especially for newbies, it may seem like a gigantic bite to take. Like that’s not enough, even…
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One German bank has an original way to teach its clients about the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC). It needs only two old-school things to accomplish this: a pen and a paper. Recently, Cryptonews.com wrote about the Bitcoin-bullish report published by German bank Bayern LB. We’ve had a chance to talk with the author…
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As crypto regulation is accepted in UAE blockchain projects could stand to benefit. The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) in the United Arab Emirates has drafted a resolution on regulating crypto assets, providing greater clarity for crypto-related projects in the Middle East nation. With the focus usually on China, Japan or the United States, the…
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China is reportedly looking into the application of blockchain to cross-border financing, with particular attention devoted to risk management applications. China is looking into the application of blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to cross-border financing, Reuters reports on Oct. 27. Blockchain in risk management Lu Lei, the deputy head of the Chinese regulator State Administration…
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Ether flipped bullish, gaining 24% as Bitcoin rallied 42% on Oct. 25. The altcoin now aims for $200. On Oct. 25 Bitcoin (BTC) unexpectedly gained 42%, one of the largest daily gains witnessed since 2011. A number of altcoins benefitted from this startling upside move and Ether (ETH) rallied 24.23% alongside Bitcon. Daily crypto market…
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Cointelegraph auf Deutsch presents a weekly digest of selected cryptocurrency and blockchain-related developments from the German-speaking world. The German-speaking world has seen an array of crypto and blockchain-related developments over the past week, with the Federal Ministry of Finance concluding that cryptocurrencies are hardly involved in money laundering and terrorist financing (TF), Bitwala integrating a…
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Major crypto markets are forced to delist privacy coins as per FATF requirements, is it counterproductive or a step in the right direction? As Japan and South Korea — two of the largest cryptocurrency exchange markets in Asia — are increasingly pressuring exchanges to delist privacy-focused crypto assets, and concerns are rising that it could…
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Russian nuclear scientist jailed for using a national research facility’s supercomputer to mine Bitcoin. A Russian scientist and former employee at the nation’s premier nuclear research facility was jailed on Oct. 24, for his part in a scheme to secretly mine Bitcoin using the facility’s supercomputers. Stealing energy and computing power from your employer According…
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