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Gibraltar United will become one of the first football teams to pay its players in cryptocurrency till the next season. The owner of the football team based in Gibraltar and an investor in Quantocoin revealed a new collaboration which implies besides the basic obligations that all footballers will be paid in cryptocurrency until next season. [...]
The Icahn School of Medicine based in New York has released its first blockchain-intended research center. The US-based medical school revealed last week details about its Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research. According to Crain's New York, the center became part of Icahn's Institute for Next Generation Healthcare and intends to explore new solutions for health [...]
Ethereum-based crowdfunding-orientated platform KICKICO announced that it had suffered an attack and that the hackers managed to get away with 70 million KICK tokens, the current equivalent of $7,7 million. The company stated that its team learned about the attack hours later after it happened when various users started complaining that they couldn't find their [...]
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has launched an investigation that focuses on crypto startup Envion AG. According to a press release issued on July 26, Envion AG is suspected of breaking the financial market laws by conducting a $100 million ICO back in January 2018. "Investigations carried out by FINMA to date indicate [...]
Remember the story of the person who paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas back in 2010? Well, even though that story went down in crypto history as one of the worst deals, it's no longer the saddest story out there. As part of an interview on July 25, QIWI CEO Sergey Solonin told the spectators [...]
It's known for quite some while that Venezuela is currently undergoing one of the worst economic situations in the country's history. Once more, news about the country's economic state seems to be linked to its recently created cryptocurrency, the Petro. In a recent announcement, President Nicolás Maduro displayed optimism and confidence in regards to the [...]
Spencer Bogart, a partner at Blockchain Capital, has recently declared for CNBC's Fast Money that he is "super bullish" on crypto. The discussion revolved around the current situation the crypto market is currently in. Regarding the general Bitcoin market, Spencer Bogart displayed a sense of optimism by stating the following: "I'm super bullish on crypto [...]
The crypto sector continues to impress the sports industry, and the collaboration between NAGA and Hamburger SV is one of the proofs. The company that "builds disruptive business models" as described on its website, NAGA, is thrilled to announce a new collaboration. The financial company is committed to supporting the football team HSV Fußball AG [...]
BitGo, already one of the biggest names in the institutional-grade cryptocurrency security field, is adding support for Zcash, as announced on the privacy-focused cryptocurrency's blog. Zcash isn't the only cryptocurrency to be added to BitGo's platform. Just recently, BitGo added support for a staggering number of 57 Ethereum-based tokens. This move is very good news [...]
TransferTo announced today that it is partnering with Stellar in order to improve international money transfers via an experimental blockchain-based program. The partnership should bring benefits to both TransferTo and Stellar partners and users from over 70 countries including the USA, Australia, China, India, and most of Latin America which will be able to send and [...]
The American cable and satellite business news television, Fox Business Network (FBN) will team up with CBS and Cheddar in an attempt to gain advantage from the ever-growing interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. According to an official announcement, the national network aims to do so through a new segment called "Exploring the Block" that [...]
Not that long ago, cryptocurrencies were deemed unworthy of attention and even laughable by most governments and institutions. Recently, the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs concluded that cryptocurrencies will not pose any threat for the economic power of central banks, as reported by Coindesk. Almost a month later, the European Parliament issued [...]