Monthly Archives: March 2021

The Bank of Jamaica has partnered with an Ireland-based tech firm for its central bank digital currency project scheduled to begin in May. 1607 Total views 11 Total shares Jamaica is the latest country making concrete efforts towards issuing its own sovereign digital currency.According to a press release by the Bank of Jamaica on Tuesday,…

Hydroelectric energy will power a new Bitcoin mining pool following Argo's partnership with DMG Blockchain. 1616 Total views 16 Total shares Publicly-traded cryptocurrency mining firm Argo Blockchain will launch a Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool powered solely by clean energy, the company announced on March 26. Argo has partnered with fellow eco-friendly mining firm DMG Blockchain…

Lukka said it planned to add additional features for customers dealing in derivatives, DeFi products, and other products of the crypto space. 959 Total views 9 Total shares Just a few weeks before the filing deadline for U.S. taxpayers, cryptocurrency accounting and data company Lukka said it had raised an additional $53 million in a…

The NFT exhibition will be part of the “Hermitage 20/21” project. 1068 Total views 12 Total shares Russia’s State Hermitage Museum, the second-largest art museum in the world, is preparing to host a digital art exhibition involving non-fungible tokens.Scheduled to take place in 2021, the Hermitage’s NFT project will be Russia’s first exhibition in the…

If creative self-doubt and competition between humans in the art world weren’t already hard enough, artists now face the prospect of battling it out on Nifty Gateway with artistic robots. Sophia, the world-famous humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, has generated more than $1 million in sales from her debut NFT drop on…

The Australian government has made two grants of up to $3 million available to blockchain teams targeting minerals certification and excise taxation solutions. 2171 Total views 21 Total shares The Australian government has opened applications for grants  up to $3 million each in funding to blockchain projects targeting supply chain tracking in the minerals industry…

Options traders are betting big that BTC will be above $80,000 on April 30, but analytics provider Skew thinks there is a 94% chance their positions will be worthless. 2199 Total views 13 Total shares With Coinbase’s highly anticipated direct listing IPO expected to take place next month, options traders appear to be betting that…

Asia’s largest economies are pushing forward with their respective CBDC trials, with six Chinese banks offering digital wallets and Japan establishing a new committee. 452 Total views 7 Total shares China and Japan are pushing forward with their respective pilots for central bank-issued digital currencies, or CBDCs.On March 26, Bank of Japan announced it had…