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05 Mar 2022

Are the Founders of NFT Being Investigated By the SEC?

According to Bloomberg, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating whether different Non-fungible token (NFT) should be considered securities under existing securities laws and re

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05 Mar 2022

Coinbase Will Not Be Stopping Russians From Using Crypto Services

The major American cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, has stated that it will not block all Russian users' accounts on its site. On Friday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that many Russians

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05 Mar 2022

Lugano Adopts Bitcoin and Tether As Legal Tender

Residents of Lugano, Switzerland's Ticino canton's largest city, will soon be able to buy houses, automobiles, and even pay taxes using Bitcoin, Tether (USDT), and Lugano's own LVGA currency. Follow

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04 Mar 2022

Ukraine Has Raised $35 Million in Cryptocurrency Donations

Ukraine has expanded the types of cryptocurrencies it accepts for donations as Russia's invasion continues. Since the Russian invasion began, the Ukrainian government has raised $35 million in cr

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07 Mar 2022

Binance Restricts Access For Cardholders of Sanctioned Russian Banks

Binance announced on Thursday that cryptocurrency traders accounts with sanctioned Russian banks will be unable to use their cards to purchase cryptocurrency on the platform. The exchange also

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04 Mar 2022

Anonymous Offers $52,000 in BTC to Russian Soldiers

Anonymous, the infamous international hacker network, has offered $52,000 in Bitcoin to Russian soldiers in exchange for surrendering their armored tanks and abandoning the battle with Ukraine. The

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04 Mar 2022

Anti-War Russians Stand With Ukraine By Making Crypto Donations

While the West is worried about Russia's prospective use of cryptocurrencies to avoid sanctions, some Russians are using their Bitcoin (BTC) to assist the people of Ukraine. Pavel Muntyan, a well

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03 Mar 2022

Ukraine Unveils State-Backed Airdrop for Crypto Donors

Ukraine government recently revealed that it will provide free airdrops to people who have recently donated crypto to aid the country's ongoing conflict with Russia. The announcement happened soo

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03 Mar 2022

The Role NFTs Are Playing in the Russo-Ukraine War

The incredible power of cryptocurrencies has been evident since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Underneath it all, NFTs are contributing to the ecosystem's charitable drive. The Wa

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02 Mar 2022

Africa’s MTN Dives Into the Metaverse

MTN, Africa's largest mobile telecommunications company, has bought 144 plots of land in Africarare, Ubuntuland, making it the continent's first company to enter the Metaverse. The story was firs

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01 Mar 2022

Polkadot Founder Donates Nearly $6M in DOT To Ukraine

https://twitter.com/gavofyork/status/1498662367600779271?s=20&t=8HuKJtQZzmGk4TbR-bEK7A Source: Twitter The crypto community's call for Ukraine to accept other cryptocurrencies has been answe

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01 Mar 2022

Hashstack To Bring Under-Collateralized Loans to DeFi Space

Hashstack Finance is pleased to announce the completion of its $1 million seed funding round, which follows the launch of its Open Protocol testnet. The funds will be used to further develop the Ope

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01 Mar 2022

The United States Blocks Russia’s Crypto Access

According to recent reports, the US government is currently in discussions with some of the largest US-based crypto companies about ways to limit Russia's access to crypto services. The move is the

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01 Mar 2022

Ukraine Gets $5 Million in Crypto Donations

To repel the Russian invasion, the Ukraine government is seeking cryptocurrency donations. According to government tweets, wallets for Bitcoin and Ethereum have already received $4.9 million in cryp

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28 Feb 2022

Binance and Kraken Will Not Seize Russian Crypto Accounts

https://twitter.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/1497922588491792386?s=20&t=fD6yHb53fC0YO1ZnVX-EOQ Following the European Union's recent sanctions against Russia, leading cryptocurrency exchanges

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28 Feb 2022

Ukraine Wants CeXs to Freeze the Assets of Russian Crypto Traders

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, has urged cryptocurrency exchanges to block Russian-based customers' addresses.  Fedorov said in a tweet on S

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28 Feb 2022

Visa and Tribal Partner To Expand Financing Options

Tribal Credit, a cryptocurrency-focused enterprise payment platform, has partnered with Visa to expand credit and financing options for small and medium-sized businesses across Latin America, highli

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27 Feb 2022

Ethereum, Bitcoin, Ripple, Tezos Forecast

Bitcoin and other crypto-assets rose after Russia agreed to negotiate with Ukrainian officials on Friday. For the day, Ethereum, XRP, and LUNA tokens gained 6%, 8%, and 10%, respectively, while Bitc

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27 Feb 2022

What the Ukraine Russia Invasion Means For Bitcoin Future

The crypto market has been impacted by Russia's military activity against Ukraine. While Sam Bankman-Fried is still undecided about Bitcoin's long-term prospects in the middle of the crisis, he has

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27 Feb 2022

Ukraine Gets BTC, ETH, USDT Donations Amidst War

The Ukraine government reached out to the crypto community on Twitter during the first week of the Russia-Ukraine war to raise funds to support its civilians and troops. Ukraine has begun accepting

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27 Feb 2022

Coinbase Has Earned Nearly $7 Billion This Year in Transaction Revenue

Coinbase released its fourth-quarter 2021 report, which revealed that the company generated total transaction revenue of $6.8 billion in the year in question, up 523.73 percent from the $1.09 billio

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27 Feb 2022

Brazil Following in El Salvador’s Footsteps on Bitcoin Adoption

Brazil Senate Committee on Economic Activities has approved the crypto bill after nearly three years of deliberation. If passed, they would be the most populous Latin American country to do so. T

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26 Feb 2022

Ukraine Asks For Crypto Donations via Twitter

On Saturday, Ukraine official Twitter account issued direct appeals for cryptocurrency donations in the midst of Russia's ongoing invasion. The official account, @Ukraine, had shared three such m

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26 Feb 2022

BitConnect Founder Convicted of a $2 Billion Fraud

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged Satishkumar Kurjibhai Kumbhani with using the infamous BitConnect cryptocurrency platform to commit fraud. According to US Attorney Randy Grossman,

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26 Feb 2022

European Central Bank Wants Crypto Regulation to be Expedited

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), has now urged the European Union to expedite MiCA regulations in order to prevent Russia from evading new sanctions. She made the

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25 Feb 2022

The Crypto Community on Russia’s Ukraine Invasion

The crypto community has reacted strongly to Russia's military incursion in Ukraine. The invasion's news sent Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies plummeting at first. Since then, the US gove

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25 Feb 2022

Bitcoin Rises Above the $40k Mark Amidst Ukraine Russia Invasion

Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency asset, briefly traded above the $40,000 trading zone late last night, after falling below the $35,000 trading zone due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Bitcoin r

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25 Feb 2022

Ukraine Military Receives $4 million in Bitcoin Donations

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and volunteer groups in Ukraine have raised $4 million in bitcoin donations to aid soldiers fighting in the ongoing conflict with Russia. According to Ellipt

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25 Feb 2022

Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin On Russia’s Attack Against Ukraine

Many cryptocurrency market participants have weighed in on the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has stated that his personal opinions have no bearing

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24 Feb 2022

Porn Actress Runs Away With $1.5M of CryptoSis

Lana Rhoades, an ex-adult film star turned social media influencer, has abandoned her NFT project dubbed CryptoSis and fled with funds raised by the project's community. According to a recent rep

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24 Feb 2022

Dogecoin Creator Against Meme Coins?

Billy Markus, the founder of the Dogecoin (DOGE), appeared to be frustrated by the number of meme coin spammers flooding his Twitter threads, and blasted the crypto shillers in a series of tweets.

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23 Feb 2022

Drake Gives $300,000 in Bitcoin to Kodak Black

Bill Kahan Kapri, better known by his stage name Kodak Black, just said that he got $300,000 in bitcoin as a gift from another rapper, Drake, who is also the creator of OVO Sound. During his most

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22 Feb 2022

Dogecoin-Themed Restaurant Opens in Dubai

A Dubai restaurant took to Instagram to announce that it accepts a variety of cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, ETH, BNB, CRO, XRP, USDT, SHIB, and DOGE are among them. According to a local news outlet,

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22 Feb 2022

Russia Finance Ministry Submits Crypto Bill To Parliament

Russia Ministry of Finance has advanced its plan to regulate the crypto sector by introducing a cryptocurrency bill to parliament, despite a public spat with the country's central bank over how to h

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22 Feb 2022

NFT Game Axie Infinity Makes $4 Billion in NFT Sales

Axie Infinity, a blockchain-based play-to-earn game, has reached a new milestone. According to data from industry tracking site CryptoSlam, the total value of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) sold in the

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21 Feb 2022

Jake Paul and Soulja Boy Among those Sued for Safemoon Scam

Jake Paul, Soulja Boy, and Nick Carter are being sued for their involvement in the SafeMoon crypto scheme. According to the claims, the hired stars made "false or misleading statements" in order to

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21 Feb 2022

Joe Biden Meeting Vladimir Putin as Bitcoin Aims for $40k Mark

Bitcoin bulls appear to be reawakening as geopolitical parameters improve. Reports that Joe Biden has agreed in principle to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what could be a last-ditch

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21 Feb 2022

Chainalysis Report: Majority of Crypto Whales are Criminals

According to the Chainalysis 2022 crypto crime report, criminals account for 3.7 percent of crypto whales. This comes as the blockchain analytics firm notes that criminal activity has increased in t

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20 Feb 2022

Open Losses Millions Worth of NFTs To Hackers

Hackers are purportedly targeting high-value NFTs on the OpenSea marketplace. Hackers are actively stealing NFTs and flipping them for a profit on OpenSea, the world's largest NFT platform, accordin

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20 Feb 2022

Web3 In Bringing Crypto into the Mainstream Market

Non fungible token (NFT) was named word of the year in 2021, decentralized finance was trending in mainstream media, and crypto companies made headlines for a variety of announcements. This is undou

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20 Feb 2022

Super Bowl Commercials Raise The Rate of Crypto App Downloads

The money spent on Super Bowl advertising by crypto companies has paid off. According to new data, crypto app installs in the United States increased 279 percent week over week. Following the Super

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18 Feb 2022

Dogecoin Creator, Billy Markus, Wants Twitter to Allow Tipping in DOGE

Billy Markus, co-creator of the original meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin, has revealed that he will strongly advocate for Twitter to add DOGE as a payment option via its tipping jar, following the addi

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18 Feb 2022

Sequoia Capital Will Launch a Crypto Fund Worth $600M

Sequoia Capital, one of the world's oldest and most successful venture capital firms, has announced the launch of a new cryptocurrency-focused fund. This will be the venture capital firm's first sec

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17 Feb 2022

Colorado To Start Accepting BTC Tax Payments By Summer

The race to be the first state in the United States to accept cryptocurrencies has begun. Colorado Governor Jared Polis recently announced that the state will begin accepting cryptocurrency as a for

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17 Feb 2022

The FBI is Establishing a National Crypto Unit 

According to Reuters, the US Justice Department FBI recently appointed Eun Young Choi, an experienced computer crimes prosecutor, to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement division. Deputy

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17 Feb 2022

President Nayib Bukele Slams US Senators

El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, asked US Senators to stay out of the country's internal affairs on Wednesday after they demanded an investigation into the economic risks the US faces as a res

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16 Feb 2022

Concerns over Binance Deal With Paysafe

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), UK's main financial regulator, has expressed worry over the recent Binance deal with Paysafe, a retail payment processor. The U.K. financial watchdog claime

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16 Feb 2022

Ripple (XRP) Booming Amidst SEC Case

Ripple Labs is locked in a legal struggle with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which it appears to be winning. Ripple has won a number of tiny victories in the case, which could help it esta

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