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Cryptocurrency portfolio tracker and tax calculator CoinTracker has surpassed 100,000 users and has signed up six new partners.The site, which is used by many traders to comply with tax reporting obligations,  announced the news in a blog post published on April 1.In the past month CoinTracker has partnered with six new organizations: Casa, Compound, Crypto.com,…

Romania’s Informatics Institute is set to launch an institutional NFT trading platform, using Web3 to create a link between the public and private sectors. 405 Total views 34 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTRomania’s National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI Bucharest) aims to drive Web3…

A new contributor to the Bitcoin (BTC) energy debate says that 1 BTC would have to cost $20 million to use 100 times its current energy demands.In a Twitter debate on July 18, Sjors Provoost, a Bitcoin developer and author of “Bitcoin: A Work in Progress,” cast doubt on the largest cryptocurrency’s future energy use.Bitcoin…

The investment fund will be the first offered by a bank in the country and is expected to include a type of crypto index and ETFs. 392 Total views 27 Total shares Kookmin Bank is preparing to become the first bank in South Korea to offer crypto investment products to retail investors. KB announced on Feb. 21…

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The founder and CEO of retail giant Overstock.com Patrick Byrne says that blockchain can make government “superefficient and incapable of being bribed,” in an interview with MarketWatch published on Feb. 12.Byrne reportedly said that government services have reached a turning point for a fundamental change of their structure, and blockchain technology, in his opinion, will…

South Korean tourist island tries to stay open and safe with blockchain technology. Jeju Island, a southern island in South Korea, is one of the most popular tourist destinations for Koreans and has about 15 million visitors annually.It now requires those visitors to use a decentralized identity (DID) blockchain technology based app that claims to…

Chinese officials from the Yaan municipality released a statement on the use of the local hydropower-derived electricity for cryptocurrency mining operations. 2199 Total views 58 Total shares Chinese officials from the city of Ya’an in Sichuan have come out in support of using locally produced hydropower for cryptocurrency mining operations.On April 20 the Municipal Economic…

Employers worldwide are spending hundreds of billions of dollars in their quest to find the perfect candidate. However, the information they are given through LinkedIn pages and resumes isn’t always accurate or easy to verify — resulting in serious consequences.Now, a networking and recruiting platform called EchoLink plans to use blockchain to give firms “trusted…