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"You know what my problem with man is? For everything that has the potential to become beautiful, man can turn it into something ugly." - RR The above quote echoes the current sentiment around the cryptocurrency industry, as more schemes using Bitcoin as payment method continue to rise
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Robert Kiyosaki popular author of best selling financial book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" has continued his not-so-new Bitcoin advocacy as he told listeners on his radio show: "Bitcoin is In, Real Estate and Gold are Out." Kiyoski's comments come at time when Bitcoin popularity
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Bitcoin Lightning Payments are now accepted on the WikiLeaks shop - the online store of international non-profit WikiLeaks which publicizes news and classified information. The WikiLeaks Shop is a branch of the WikiLeaks brand which sells a range of merchandise including T-shirts, face masks and others. Its latest integration of
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Billionaire philanthropist, Bill Pulte took to Twitter to donate money to different people in need, using the hashtag #PulteDropsBitcoin. In one of his posts on Twitter, he states that he is giving away real money for people to buy Bitcoin. Money Given on Twitter to Buy Bitcoin The Pulte family
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The Securities Commission (SC) Malaysia's Shariah Advisory Council, has declared digital currency trading as permissible. According to the council which supervises the implementation of Islamic laws in the regulation of financial institutions, investing and trading in cryptocurrencies are totally acceptable. An official statement was made by Malaysia SC
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A new research conducted among 1,150 participants shows that most crypto investors have no plan for their digital assets in the case of their death. The survey carried out by the Cremation Institute between October 2019 and June 2020, categorized respondents into four age groups 18-25 (Generation Z), 26-40
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Social media platform - Twitter is known to be the hub of most cryptocurrency influencers, as well as a wide meeting point for the "crypto community" - as they are called. Twitter features interactions between industry big wigs and their followers, with tweets on new products, coin analysis,
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Chief of Cryptocurrency at payments giant - Visa says central bank digital currency (CBDC) is one of the most vital trends for the future of money and payments. According to Cuy Sheffield, who heads the company's crypto project, he explained in a thread on Twitter that the decision
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Senegalese-American rapper Akon is set to build a blockchain hub in Kenya, courtesy of a partnership with Netherlands-based firm Effect Ai. The project dubbed the "Kenyan Opportunity Hub", aims to promote blockchain and artificial intelligence for Kenyans, in a bid to offer more skills and work opportunities. According
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News has emerged that Nasdaq-listed "Kingold Jewelry" allegedly used counterfeit gold as collateral to obtain a 20 Billion Yuan ($2.8B) loan from a dozen Chinese financial institutions over the past five years. "The gold industry has been shaken after it was discovered that 83 tons of
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Lebanon's monetary crisis has continued, with the latest fall in value of its national currency by over 50% in the last 10 days, to trade at 8,200 to the US dollar. Reports say the country's deepening economic crisis has seen the Lira (Lebanese pound) lose
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June 02, 2020 - The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has announced it would experiment a central bank digital currency to evaluate the feasibility of such project. According to the BoJ, it wants to digitize cash, and is set to commence a proof-of-concept process with the digital yen; following the footsteps