Nigerian activist battles for Bitcoin rights in major legal challenge

Social trading can be described as those activities that engage or facilitate interactions among traders to strengthen the crypto community. On the other hand, copy trading is an element of social trading that allows users to mimic the trading patterns of other traders, in particular, experienced or professional traders.As industry players and professionals in the…

London-headquartered multinational banking and financial services firm Standard Chartered has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tencent-backed Chinese fintech firm Linklogis. The agreement, reported by financial technology news site Finextra on Feb. 12, will allow Standard Chartered to use Linklogis’ blockchain-powered supply chain financing platform.Linklogis, based in Shenzhen, China, is a business to business…

Despite suspending service to some crypto ATMs during the early days of the pandemic, Bitcoin Depot has continued to expand. The largest Bitcoin ATM operator in the world has said it will be expanding into Circle K locations in the United States and Canada.Bitcoin Depot announced today that more than 700 of its Bitcoin ATM…

The Moscow municipal government is planning to launch a blockchain-based city innovation cluster by summer 2019, Russian news agency TASS reports on Feb. 11.The upcoming platform for the city’s IT innovation cluster will enable participants to find potential partners, as well as learn about their products and equipment, according to Alexey Fursin, Head of the…

Cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform Celsius Network has topped $300 million in coin deposits in the course of 12 months and completed over $2 billion in coin loan origination, according to a press release published on Aug. 1.“Fastest growing lending platform”Since July 2018, when the Celsius started lending operations, it has originated more than $2.2…

The Korean financial services commission and the Seoul metropolitan government have announced plans to invest $16 million in training digital finance experts for four years on Feb. 12. The application period to win the grant is March 4-6.Details of the new programThe FSC explained that the demand for specialists in financial technology is increasing. The…

On New Year’s Day, the U.S.-based crypto exchange Bittrex announced via Twitter that it was delisting three leading privacy coins: Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC) and Dash. A link promised further details, but those who followed it learned nothing to explain why trades in those tokens would end on Jan. 15.Still, the news couldn’t have been…

Crypto hackers have stolen over 15.5% more in 2024 so far compared to the same period last year.

Facebook has been planning its foray into the metaverse for some time now — possibly even several years. But it’s only recently that its ambitious expansion plans have catapulted the concept into mainstream headlines across the globe. Renaming the parent company to Meta was perhaps the biggest, boldest statement of intent the firm could make.…