Bitcoin has broken record levels against at least nine world currencies as its U.S. dollar price marches toward $20,000. Bitcoin (BTC) is just a few thousand dollars away from its all-time high near $20,000 U.S. dollars. However, while much of the crypto industry watch Bitcoin’s price action in U.S. dollar terms, BTC has already achieved…
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The appetite for blockchain-based fan tokens appears to be limitless among big-league soccer clubs across the globe. İstanbul Başakşehir, last season’s winner of the Turkish soccer league, has joined the Socios platform and will launch its own fan token ($IBFK) by the end of 2020. $IBFK, like other fan tokens in the Socios ecosystem, confers…
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The pandemic-induced crisis is galvanizing new trends across all aspects of the global economy, including digital currencies. The COVID-19 pandemic has served both as an x-ray onto existing vulnerabilities in the global financial system, and as an accelerator for destabilizing tendencies, including higher sovereign and consumer debt in emerging markets. At an online meeting of…
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Uniswap’s UNI token distribution paid nearly half of the tuition for students who attended one “Crypto 101” course. Students enrolled in the class “Introduction to Cryptocurrencies” at Turkey’s Kadir Has University were the unexpected winners of Uniswap’s UNI token distribution on Sept. 17. İsmail Hakkı Polat, one of two lecturers of the class, told Cointelegraph…
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Fan token adoption heats up as Trabzonspor joins the craze. Turkish football club Trabzonspor is the latest team to issue their own fan tokens using the Blockchain voting and rewards app, Socios.com, which will be available via the Chiliz exchange. According to the announcement, $TRA token holders will be able to vote in various polls…
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BtcTurk joins forces with the Turkish Football Federation on the road to the UEFA European Championship 2021. Major Turkish crypto exchange BtcTurk has become the main sponsor of both the women’s and men’s Turkish national soccer teams via an agreement with the Turkish Football Federation, Cointelegraph Turkey reported on Aug. 20. According to the official…
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Turkish real estate firm Antalya Homes announced that its customers can now pay for properties listed on its platform with Bitcoin. Turkish real estate firm Antalya Homes announced that its customers can now pay for properties listed on its platform with Bitcoin (BTC). According to a June 15 announcement, Antalya Homes claims to have recorded…
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Turkish İşbank and German Commerzbank completed the first blockchain-based trade finance transaction between the two countries. A major Turkish bank completed the country’s first-ever international trade finance transaction based on distributed ledger technology, or DLT. This adds another milestone to the country’s increasing blockchain efforts. İşbank, the first Turkish bank to join R3’s Corda platform…
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BitPanda CEO Eric Demuth explains why regulations are necessary to avoid a “Wild West” for crypto, and names first stop outside of the EU. The crypto ecosystem tends to see regulations as “the big bad wolf.” In this narrative, government and regulators set rules that slow down innovation and damage growth for the crypto industry.…
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Binance announced a partnership with Turkey’s major bank, and Changpeng Zhao told the details to Cointelegraph. Major crypto exchange Binance announced that their fiat on-ramp for Turkish Lira is live thanks to a partnership with major Turkish bank Akbank, Cointelegraph Turkey reported on March 2. Binance users from Turkey can now deposit and withdraw directly…
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