El Salvador’s national Bitcoin chief has been orange-pilling Argentina

The Canadian band The Carbons got a little more than just a tip during a live performance in Kelowna, British Columbia. When passerby Ben from BTCSessions, a Youtuber and Bitcoin (BTC) educator, saw that the band accepted Bitcoin, he had to send some magic internet money their way.The Carbons' guitar case. Source: Tomy, the frontmanTomy…

The roadmap proposes the launch of a regulatory sandbox and the creation of a national blockchain-backed realty register. 292 Total views 16 Total shares Blockchain4Ukraine — a group of pro-crypto Ukrainian lawmakers — and the citizen group Virtual Assets of Ukraine (VAU) revealed a joint roadmap for promoting and developing Web3 in the country. The…

MicroStrategy was downgraded to "sell" from "neutral" on Tuesday. Shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR) fell on Tuesday after Citibank reportedly downgraded the business intelligence firm over its “disproportionate” Bitcoin (BTC) focus. Citi analyst Tyler Radke issued a “sell” rating on MSTR shortly after the company announced it was raising more money to buy Bitcoin. Radke says CEO…

This week definitely feels calmer, more positive than the last. And there’s good reason to be optimistic for DeFi bulls too, as the market posted a decent recovery since my last newsletter.People are calling it a “blue chip” rally, which means that it’s household names that are leading the charts (at least that’s the standard…

The $50,000 resistance level seems to be the line in the sand that separates certainty from doubt that Bitcoin has cast off the four-year cycle trend according to Santiment. 1324 Total views 9 Total shares Some analysts believe the four-year market cycle is changing and that the halving schedule may no longer determine cyclical conditions…

It's no secret that cryptocurrencies don't receive many plaudits in the mainstream media as reliable means of payment. Critics have even claimed that Bitcoin "sucks" as a payment mechanism.Yet, despite that blinkered skepticism, cryptocurrency payments actually grew last year. Payment processor BitPay reported a "record" $1 billion in transaction revenue in 2018, with its business-to-business (B2B)…

U.S. fintech giant Stripe is hiring a new blockchain team to enable crypto payments for its users. The $100 billion company is returning to the crypto sector three years after it pulled back from offering Bitcoin support due its slow transaction times and rising fees. According to a job listing page on Stripe’s website, the…

Assistant Secretary at the Treasury Department Elizabeth Rosenberg said sanctioning crypto mixers could help deter money laundering from entities in Russia, Iran and North Korea. 361 Total views 51 Total shares Elizabeth Rosenberg, the assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes at the United States Department of the Treasury, suggested sanctioning cryptocurrency mixers could…