Bitcoiner raises the orange flag on Mount Everest
After weeks of climbing and acclimating to the altitude, Dadvan Yousuf removed the Bitcoin flag from his bag to show it off at the top of the world.
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TradFi and DeFi come together at Davos 2023: Finance Redefined
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Acid, Bitcoin mining and a bad trip to North Korea
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EAEU unlikely to find common ground on crypto regulation, official says
The Eurasian Economic Union’s member states did not support an initiative to synchronize crypto regulations. 1999 Total views 12 Total shares Member states of the Eurasian Economic Union, or EAEU, have been struggling to come up with a shared stance regarding cryptocurrency regulations, according to an official.Iya Malkina, assistant chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission…

Bitmain Closes Israeli Blockchain Development Center Citing Crypto Market Conditions
Chinese crypto mining giant Bitmain is closing its development center in Israel and firing local employees, Israeli business news outlet Globes has learned Monday, Dec. 10.Bitmaintech Israel — founded in 2016 to explore the use of blockchain technology, work on the Connect BTC mining pool and develop the infrastructure behind Bitmain’s artificial intelligence (AI) project…

Vitalik Buterin ponders Ethereum’s future post-Merge
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared his vision for the future of the protocol, with an emphasis on the areas of improvement for proof-of-stake, security and more in a post-Merge world.

Mainland China investors won’t be able to buy Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs
Mainland Chinese citizens will not be able to purchase Bitcoin and Ether ETFs in Hong Kong because mainland China banned crypto transactions years ago.

Hong Kong makes HKVAX third licensed retail crypto exchange
HKVAX is the first to be licensed under the region’s new licensing regime, as 16 more exchanges wait.