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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…

Nov 14, 2020 at 10:24 a.m. UTCUpdated Nov 14, 2020 at 10:25 a.m. UTCBitcoin prices for 24 hours, Saturday Nov. 14(CoinDesk BPI)Bitcoin Rally Falters as Price Drops Below £16KBitcoin’s price quickly dropped below $16,000 Saturday morning, putting the rapid rally seen in recent weeks on pause.Around 10:00 UTC, the cryptocurrency dropped as low as $15,750,…

Crypto security startup BitGo has received approval in the U.S. to act as a qualified custodian for digital assets. The company, which has spent most of 2018 attempting to launch a regulated custodian entity, announced that the BitGo Trust had been approved by the South Dakota Division of Banking on Thursday, meaning it can now offer…

The native token (VGX) of bankrupt crypto brokerage firm Voyager Digital surged by 20% on Friday after on-chain data revealed that a Voyager wallet sent 52 million tokens ($7.3 million) to a burn address.Etherscan data shows that a wallet labeled as "Voyager 1" made its first outbound transfer for 225 days, sending a test transaction

DeFi’s Good, Bad and UglyKapil Rathi is CEO of CrossTower, a crypto exchange and structured products provider. He has held senior leadership roles at Cboe, Bats, ISE and the New York Stock Exchange. Everyone has fallen in love with decentralized finance (DeFi). We’re all giddy about it. One subset of DeFi is the ever so…

Tether, the crypto firm behind the third-largest cryptocurrency (USDT), said on Thursday it has launched its asset tokenization service after CEO Paolo Ardoino teased the project for months. The platform, called Hadron, was designed to simplify the process of converting a wide range of real-world assets including bonds, commodities, stocks, other stablecoins and loyalty points

Sep 8, 2020 at 16:00 UTCUpdated Sep 8, 2020 at 16:11 UTCVisa Adds Crypto Lender Cred to Fast Track Payments ProgramCrypto lending platform Cred has joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program to speed up payments and borrowing, Cred said Tuesday.  According to the statement, entry into the fast track program will allow Cred to “more…

NFTs aren’t for everyone. In the years since non-fungible tokens first entered public consciousness there has been a fierce backlash against what is essentially just a way of authenticating data. Part of this negativity was as a response to the gross financialization and speculation around these tokens, and environmental concerns that have since basically been

Jan 17, 2020 at 09:00 UTCTaxBit co-founders Justin and Austin Woodward, image courtesy of TaxBit2019’s DeFi Boom Creates New Questions for Tax Filing SeasonThe decentralized finance (DeFi) boom of 2019, leading to over $785 million in locked crypto assets, is already making accountants dizzy. If you lock up bitcoin or ether in exchange for a synthetic…