Mastercard launches ‘next generation’ of blockchain payments startup program

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 Week Twitter’s top brass gutted as Elon Musk’s takeover begins Elon…

Quantstamp’s Kei Oda sits down with Magazine to discuss the Japanese crypto ecosystem and how he got into the blockchain space. by Brian Quarmby 5 min September 11, 2023 Share Tweet Share Share Kei Oda is the head of Japan and the Asia-Pacific region for Quantstamp, a Web3 security firm that audits smart contracts and

The potential partnership comes amid increased regulatory scrutiny for both companies.

ArchiveNode.io has closed its doors following three years of providing archived Ethereum blockchain node data. 58 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTEthereum mainnet Archive Node service, ArchiveNode.io, said it will be shutting down, claiming that the project has been a success.On April 4, ArchiveNode.io announced…

An employee at a nuclear research center in the closed town of Sarov in Russia was fined for illegally mining Bitcoin (BTC).Convicted to pay $7,000 fineAccording to a Sept. 27 article by Russian news outlet Meduza, a man was fined 450,000 rubles ($7,000) for trying to mine Bitcoin by using a petaflop-capable supercomputer at his…

Genesis Trading is the latest firm to declare exposure to FTX and may look to its parent company for help as it did after the 3AC bankruptcy. 310 Total views 2 Total shares In what it hails as an effort to be transparent, Digital Currency Group’s market maker and lending subsidiary, Genesis Trading, revealed that…

On August 11 MicroStrategy, the world’s largest publicly traded business intelligence company, announced that it had ditched fiat currency and built its primary treasury reserve with Bitcoin (BTC). The company’s CEO Michael J. Saylor believes that the coronavirus pandemic and the stimulus measures enacted to counter it will cause “a significant depreciating effect on the long-term…

British financial watchdog will tighten the guidelines for promoting high-risk products to individual investors. 58 Total views 3 Total shares British Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) demands clearer and more prominent risk warnings from the companies marketing high-risk investments. Certain investment incentives, such as refer a friend bonus, will be banned altogether. In a note published on Aug.…

The city of Dubai has been very welcoming to the crypto space, providing the much-needed regulatory clarity to help the industry thrive. While this attracts native Web3 and crypto businesses to the emirate, even non-crypto businesses started integrating technologies like crypto, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and even the metaverse into their operations. Cointelegraph went to explore various…