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Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekRussian government and central bank agree to treat Bitcoin as currency The…

Controversial Bitcoin (BTC) spin-off Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has hit new all-time lows against its parent after Tesla publicly rejected using it for payments.In a series of tweets on March 24, CEO and "Technoking" Elon Musk confirmed that U.S. customers could now buy a Tesla using BTC — but his company shunned "fork products" such as…

Third-party data breaches have exploded. The problem? Companies, including cryptocurrency exchanges, don’t know how to protect against them. When exchanges sign new vendors, most just innately expect that their vendors employ the same level of scrutiny as they do. Others don’t consider it at all. In today’s age, it isn’t just a good practice to…

Bitcoin (BTC) and most major altcoins are attempting to break above their respective overhead resistance levels, indicating the return of the bulls.Data from Bybt shows that the Grayscale premium has been climbing and reached -5.88% on July 27, its closest level to zero since May 25. This suggests that institutional investors may have again started building…

Pierce and Lee believe that Bitcoin will continue its meteoric rise in price through 2022, but that's pretty much par for the course with those two. 1788 Total views 23 Total shares Despite missing the mark with their $100,000 Bitcoin price predictions in 2021, Former Chief Strategy Officer at Block One Brock Pierce and co-founder…

Illia Polosukhin, Ukraine-born crypto entrepreneur and Near protocol co-founder, explains how crypto has become an invaluable instrument for supporting Ukraine’s resistance. 353 Total views 25 Total shares “Crypto became the largest driver for humanitarian help as well as some of military help for Ukraine”, said Illia Polosukhin, the co-founder of Near Protocol. Polosukhin, who was born…

Zap is announcing Strike Global, a Bitcoin payments app for global remittances. 3932 Total views 18 Total shares Zap, a Lightning Network payments startup backed by Visa through its Fintech Fast Track program, announced on Jan. 6 the rollout of Strike Global, a payments and remittances app using the Bitcoin (BTC) layer-two technology.An announcement by…

Payment giant Visa will continue connecting the crypto economy to its “network of networks” to support the broader digital transformation of financial services. 341 Total views 8 Total shares Global payments giant Visa will continue to support the development and adoption of the cryptocurrency industry as part of its business, the company said in its…

The SEC must appeal Grayscale’s win in a D.C. Appeals Court on Oct. 13, or it will have to approve — or try to delay — the firm’s Bitcoin ETF bid. 433 Total views 1 Total shares The United States Securities and Exchange Commission will soon reach its deadline to appeal the court decision that