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Mastercard to Allow All Banks on its Network to Provide Bitcoin Services (Report)

In another venture within the digital asset space, Mastercard is preparing to expand the cryptocurrency economy in a whole new way, according to a recent report. The payment services giant…

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$2.2T Asset Manager Pimco Is Starting to Trade in Cryptocurrencies, Said CIO

Pimco – a global investment management firm – recently confirmed that it is slowly increasing its cryptocurrency exposure. Chief Investment Officer Daniel Ivascyn said some of the company’s hedge funds…

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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Taunts Economist Steve Hanke After Bitcoin’s Price Skyrockets

On October 15, the day bitcoin’s price surpassed the $60K per unit handle, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele taunted the professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, Steve Hanke, over…

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El Salvadorans Are Converting Their USD to BTC as Interest in Bitcoin Soars

A month after the Bitcoin law went into effect in the central American nation of El Salvador, interest in the cryptocurrency has continued to soar as a greater percentage of…

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US Mortgage Lender UWM Will No Longer Accept Bitcoin Payments

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) – a leading mortgage provider in the USA – has decided to stop allowing its customers to settle payments in cryptocurrencies, citing “regulatory uncertainty” in the…

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Adoption Continues: Online Marketplace Allows Buying Tesla with Bitcoin Again

Car For Coin – an auction website where users can purchase luxurious cars – also provided bitcoin payments as an option. Other examples of the latest cryptocurrency adoption are the…

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Arcane Research predicts 700 million Lightning Network users by 2030

Arcane Research says that Lightning Network usage has been on a steep upwards trajectory since late last year, but in September growth went parabolic off the back of El Salvador's…

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