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Ripple (XRP) has continued its plunge in price as more global exchanges delist and halt trading for the world's fourth largest coin; in the wake of its suit with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. As at Tuesday (29/12), XRP dropped by more 37% to now bring
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Nigerian-born US NFL player - Russell Okung has converted and received half of his $13 million salary in Bitcoin. About 20 months and a 273% price increase after he first tweeted "Pay Me In Bitcoin" Okung has become the pioneer national football league player to be paid Bitcoin.
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Popular trader - (@PeterLBrandt) who called the timing of Bitcoin's price dump in January 2018, has again shared his thoughts on the number one cryptocurrency via Twitter. Peter Brandt who maintains that Bitcoin is in its parabolic phase, has posted a chart indicating that BTC could rise as
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This year 2020, the number of companies who invested in Bitcoin grew significantly, and following the bull run these corporations now own over $30 billion in BTC. Coming into the year, investing in cryptocurrency by companies sounded a little weird but that narrative soon changed as a number of firms
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The SEC complains that Ripple co-founder and current CEO were involved in the raising of funds beginning in 2013 through the sale of digital assets known as XRP in an unregistered securities offering to investors in the U.S. and worldwide. Ripple Unregistered Securities Offering The complaint alleges that Ripple
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Globally recognized female rapper, Megan Thee Stallion gave away $1 million in Bitcoin to her fans ahead of the Christmas holidays. Shortly after, she trended on Twitter under the hashtag #BitcoinMeg. Megan Thee Stallion Bitcoin Giveaway The Houston rapper wanted to celebrate Christmas with her fans by giving away the
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A group of lawmakers in the USA are working together to find out more about the Treasury's proposed bitcoin and crypto regulations which could restrict the use of self-hosted wallets. Restrictive Bitcoin and Crypto Regulations Lawmakers recognise that a proposal requiring financial institutions to collect identifying information of
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Square Inc - the payments subsidiary owned by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is set to invest in a new Bitcoin Clean Energy Initiative which aims to make crypto mining more eco-friendly. Announced this week, Square says it will be investing $10 million in the project in a bid to support
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The founder of cryptocurrency protocol project, Oyster Pearl, is being charged by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for tax evasion. Amir Bruno Elmaani, who raised millions in token sales, has been accused of personally pocketing millions of dollars of the tokens raised in an ICO for Oyster Pearl, without reporting
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The S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of financial data provider S&P Global Inc, will become the latest major financial company to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021, as it takes a step into the digital asset industry. According to reports by Reuters, the index will include
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The Venezuelan Army has launched a cryptocurrency mining facility as it seeks ways to generate extra income in the wake of the country's falling economy. According to a recent post by General Lenin Herrera of the Engineering Brigade, the military has inaugurated a "Digital Assets Production Center
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The Government of Ukraine through its Ministry of Digital Transformation has released a web series to educate its citizens about Bitcoin (BTC), blockchain, and cryptocurrencies in general. The series which launched last week under the Ukrainian government's "Diia.Digital Education program", consists of eight episodes averaging