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The United States National Basketball Association (NBA) and its affiliate – the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), have partnered with crypto firm Dapper Labs to launch a new crypto collectibles game. According to NBPA's official publication, the game called NBA Top Shot will be a roster competitive game based
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MoneyGram, the world’s second largest money transfer company has revealed it has begun official use of Ripple’s (XRP) cross-border payment platform – xRapid. This latest announcement was made at MoneyGram’s Q2 2019 earnings report, weeks after both firms had agreed on strategic partnership in the sum of $30
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English premier league football club – Everton has signed a deal with cryptocurrency trading platform - eToro. According to an official announcement by the club, eToro will now become Everton’s Official Online Trading Partner, with the firm enjoying advertising benefits on the club’s platform and during its home matches.
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China’s Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID) – a research initiative of the Chinese government through China’s ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has published its 13th edition of cryptocurrency rankings. Topping this latest ranking is EOS, with Bitcoin in eleventh place; still out of the top 10.
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Fortaleza, Ceara - one of Brazil’s major cities will start accepting Bitcoin (BTC) as payment for bus tickets by the end of the year. According to local newspaper O Povo, the development was announced by the city’s local transportation service, with the initiative to allow citizens and residents
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Smartphone manufacturer Samsung has partnered blockchain phone company – Pundi X to integrate the XWallet in the Galaxy S10. Announced in a blog post, Pundi X says the integration of its cryptocurrency wallet with the Samsung blockchain wallet will foster the growing adoption of the technology and make the XWallet available
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Co-founders of one Norway’s popular airlines – Norwegian Air have announced that they will introduce Bitcoin (BTC) payments for the airline later this year. According to reports, the affluent Kjos family which co-owns the flight company, and are known to hold very high amounts of Bitcoin; are set to launch
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Curtin University Australia – The largest university in Western Australia has announced the launch of its Cryptocurrency PhD program. The Cryptocurrency PhD Scholarship Fund will allow individuals and companies to sponsor PhD students studying blockchain, cybersecurity and data analytic courses, using crypotocurrency funding. According to school authorities, the program will be
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CEO of Chinese Tech and mobile phone giant Huawei has said that China can compete with Facebook for market share by issuing its own cryptocurrency. The CEO Mr Ren Zhengfei made the remarks at a recent interview as believes China has the capacity to can easily create a digital currency
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Venezuela has set another Bitcoin trading volume record, as citizens traded more fiat for BTC (Bolivars for Bitcoin) last week. According to statistics by Coin Dance, which analysed figures from five trading exchanges, BTC trading between July 13 and July 20 hit a milestone in the South American nation. Stats
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Our diligent attention has been drawn to scam posers using the identity of the Binance trading platform. The scammers claim Binance is offering a 5,000 Bitcoin (BTC) giveaway in celebration of its 2nd year anniversary. This report is false; as verifiable from a pinned tweet on the official Twitter
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Bakkt, the much anticipated Bitcoin (BTC) futures platform run by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has officially begun delivery of BTC futures, after its initial testing in June. Announced yesterday in an official tweet, the firm will begin user acceptance testing for bitcoin daily and monthly futures with participants from around