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Likely to nobody's surprise, the European Central Bank's (ECB) research on the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) has now reached its next step: the official launch of a digital euro project. In November last year, the ECB had initially launched a public survey

Another multi-trillion asset manager has entered the Bitcoin game: Capital International Investors, a division of Capital Group, which itself is an investment firm with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management, has purchased 953,242 shares in business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, according to an SEC filing released last week.

Circle seeks to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that would place its valuation at $4.5 billion. The news became public on Thursday, when Circle announced the planned merger with Concord Acquisition Corp., making the firm the latest in a list of cryptocurrency

German neobank N26 is working to enable Bitcoin and other cyptocurrency purchases for its seven million customers by the end of the year. The move comes although N26 co-founder Valentin Stalf is not exactly a Bitcoin fan, as German finance magazine Finance FWD reports. However, "the customers want crypto,

Bitcoin privacy wallet Wasabi has set out on a mission to make Bitcoin privacy more user-friendly. As the BTC Times reported last year, the developers behind Wasabi seek to make certain privacy best practices "effortless" — the pursuit tackles what some see as a major pain point in the

Banco de México, Mexico's central bank, was quick to shoot down plans voiced by the country's third-richest person Ricardo Salina for his bank Banco Azteca to become the first bank in Mexico to accept bitcoin. Late last week, Salinas spoke about Bitcoin as "an asset

Bitcoin is headed for what is expected to be the largest downward difficulty adjustment in its history. As China has effectively opted out of Bitcoin by instructing banks and payment service provides to cut off Bitcoin-linked transactions and ordering miners in various regions to shut down their operations, Bitcoin miners

Tanzania's central bank is reportedly working on a directive from the country's president Samia Suluhu Hassan to prepare for cryptocurrencies. The developments could hint at a possible reversal of the central bank's stance on Bitcoin, Reuters reports. In 2019, the Tanzanian central bank publicly