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Nov 17, 2020 at 12:35 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 17, 2020 at 12:36 p.m. UTC(Willfried Wende/Pixabay )Gold Lags Far Behind Bitcoin as Vaccine Optimism Buoys MarketsBitcoin is outshining gold by a significant margin in price terms as expectations soar of a swift global economic recovery enabled by promising coronavirus vaccines.While the top cryptocurrency by market value…

news Bithumb, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, is looking to go public in the U.S. through a reverse-merger route. Blockchain Industries, an investment firm focusing on the crypto and blockchain industry and traded on the U.S over-the-counter markets, announced Tuesday that it had signed a binding letter of intent (LoI) agreement with Singapore-based…

New York City was all about NFTs this week as the third edition of NFT.NYC, New York’s non-fungible token conference, took place. It went off with a bang!The event has come far from its humble origins in 2019 and this year’s featured 600 speakers across three days and six venues throughout the city. Over the…

Binance has been awarded a full crypto services license in Dubai by VARA.This license upgrades its existing minimum viable product license awarded in mid-2023.Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by trading volume, said it has been awarded a full virtual-asset services provider (VASP) license by Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) almost a year after

news Japanese messaging giant LINE may soon be able to open a cryptocurrency exchange for users based in the country, according to a report from Bloomberg. LINE is close to winning a crypto exchange license from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA), which could issue the approval as early as this month, the news outlet…

Dec 17, 2019 at 07:00 UTCUpdated Dec 17, 2019 at 03:01 UTCAccenture image via ShutterstockAccenture Will Board Corporates Onto Marco Polo Shipping BlockchainProfessional services firm Accenture has partnered with global trade finance blockchain startup TradeIX, becoming an onboarding partner for the Marco Polo Network. The agreement comes alongside an undisclosed investment by Accenture Ventures in TradeIX,…

Jan 15, 2020 at 22:27 UTCCredit: Nicolas Maduro/TwitterVenezuela’s Maduro: Airlines Must Use Petros to Pay for FuelVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has declared all flights out of the country must use the oil-backed petro cryptocurrency to pay for fuel.In his annual speech to the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly, Maduro announced the state-owned oil company, PDVSA, would only…

Organizers of Stand With Crypto say the advocacy group is directing a wave of crypto-interested voters toward shifting digital assets policy in the U.S. In about 10 months since launching, the organization has gathered millions in donations and also started its own political action committee to influence individual races. Stand With Crypto, a digital assets