March 2019 | Page 10 of 110 | Last Cryptocurrency News Feed

Innisfil Becomes First City in Canada to Accept Bitcoin for Municipal Taxes

Ohio might have made history as the first city to accept cryptocurrency for corporate taxes, but one Canadian town is adding its name to the books by becoming the first in North America to permit its citizens to pay their personal taxes in bitcoin.The tiny town of Innisfil (with a population of 36,500), situated about…

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LocalBitcoins, Once a Go-To for Anonymous Bitcoin Transactions, Adds KYC

The Finland-based, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform LocalBitcoins released a statement on March 25, 2019, responding to a new act approved by the Finnish Parliament that will require users to verify their identities. This marks a major change for the service, which had been a primary way for users wishing to protect their anonymity to meet…

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Bitrefill Now Lets You Pay for Airbnb Rentals With 5 Cryptocurrencies

news Cryptocurrency gift card provider Bitrefill has added a service allowing users to book Airbnb rentals with five cryptocurrencies. The Sweden-based firm announced the news over Twitter on Wednesday, saying that customers can now pay for Airbnb gift cards in bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), litecoin (LTC), dogecoin (DOGE) and dash (DASH). However, currently, the Airbnb gift cards…

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Bitcoin Pushes $4,100 as Oil Futures See Losses

Thursday, March 28 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting slight to moderate gains on the day by press time, as Bitcoin (BTC) stays over $4,000.Market Visualization Courtesy of Coin360Bitcoin is up nearly half a percent on the day, trading at around $4,087, according to CoinMarketCap. Looking at its weekly chart, the current…

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Exchange KuCoin Enables Credit Card Purchases of Crypto

Singapore-based crypto exchange KuCoin has partnered with Israel-based payment processing company Simplex to let its users purchase crypto via credit card, an official announcement revealed on March 27.The exchange has already added the service to its assets page, the announcement reports. Now users can purchase Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHABC)…

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CEOs of Mastercard and Wells Fargo Concur on Blockchain’s Long Term Potential

Top execs at Mastercard and Wells Fargo agreed that blockchain technology has long-term potential, but it has not been realized to date, CNBC reports on March 28.Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan and Mastercard CEO Ajaypal Banga concurred that the potential of distributed ledger technology (DLT) is yet to pay off, but that there are still…

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Tron Acquires Blockchain App Store CoinPlay

The Tron Foundation, the firm behind TRX, the 11th top crypto by market cap, has acquired blockchain app store CoinPlay, Tron’s CEO, Justin Sun, tweeted on March 28.With the new acquisition, Tron intends to contribute to the aggregation of a wide range of blockchain apps and decentralized applications (DApps) on one platform, eliminating the need to…

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Huobi US Affiliate Launches Institutional Group for OTC Crypto Trading

news The U.S. affiliate of the Huobi Global crypto trading marketplace is courting big-money investors with the introduction of a new institutional team. Announced today, the new group at HBUS will be headed up by Katelyn Mew, a veteran of asset management powerhouse BlackRock and discount brokerage Charles Schwab, and Oren Blonstein, who comes from…

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Blockchain-Based Diamond Exchange Cedex to Start Trading Diamonds Worth $50 Million

Blockchain-enabled diamond exchange Cedex has secured more than 6,000 diamonds worth over $50 million that will be traded on its platform, Finance Magnates reported on March 27.Per the report, citing a press release from the firm, the supply is meant to ensure that traders have a sufficient variety of options from the launch of its…

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Speak Out: Discussing Your Experience in Crypto

41 MINUTES AGO How adventurous is your crypto experience? Got an interesting story to share? You are welcome here. Reply Sooner or later, we all have to deal with negative events in our lives, and crypto is not an exception. Everyone has made a bad trade, lost private keys to their wallet or hodled too…