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It's Bitcoin Day: El Salvador Buys 400 Bitcoin as Bitcoin Law Goes Into Effect
It's Bitcoin Day: El Salvador Buys 400 Bitcoin as Bitcoin Law Goes Into Effect
News  •  Economy  •  Sep 01, 2021 by Jeannie Bennett

It's Bitcoin Day — the "Ley Bitcoin" (Bitcoin Law) has gone into effect in El Salvador, officially making the country the first in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. To kick off the historic day, El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele took to Twitter

Cuba Is Set to Recognize Bitcoin as a Payment Method
Cuba Is Set to Recognize Bitcoin as a Payment Method
News  •  Economy  •  Aug 26, 2021 by Thomas M

Cuba is set to recognize and regulate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as means of payment. This is detailed in a ministry of justice resolution published on Thursday. The resolution is signed by the central bank's minister president Marta Sabina Wilson González. The document, which was published in the

German Regulator BaFin Approves First Bitcoin-Based Security Token Offering
German Regulator BaFin Approves First Bitcoin-Based Security Token Offering

Germany's finance regulator BaFin has approved the first security token offering (STO) issued on a Bitcoin sidechain for the German market. The approval was obtained by alternative asset marketplace STOKR to host the security token offering for sci-fi MMO Infinite Fleet, according to a press release shared with

News  •  Economy  •  Sep 16, 2021
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German Regulator BaFin Approves First Bitcoin-Based Security Token Offering
German Regulator BaFin Approves First Bitcoin-Based Security Token Offering

Germany's finance regulator BaFin has approved the first security token offering (STO) issued on a Bitcoin sidechain for the German market. The approval was obtained by alternative asset marketplace STOKR to host the security token offering for sci-fi MMO Infinite Fleet, according to a press release shared with

News  •  Economy  •  Sep 16, 2021
It's Bitcoin Day: El Salvador Buys 400 Bitcoin as Bitcoin Law Goes Into Effect
It's Bitcoin Day: El Salvador Buys 400 Bitcoin as Bitcoin Law Goes Into Effect

It's Bitcoin Day — the "Ley Bitcoin" (Bitcoin Law) has gone into effect in El Salvador, officially making the country the first in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. To kick off the historic day, El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele took to Twitter

News  •  Economy  •  Sep 01, 2021
Cuba Is Set to Recognize Bitcoin as a Payment Method
Cuba Is Set to Recognize Bitcoin as a Payment Method

Cuba is set to recognize and regulate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as means of payment. This is detailed in a ministry of justice resolution published on Thursday. The resolution is signed by the central bank's minister president Marta Sabina Wilson González. The document, which was published in the

News  •  Economy  •  Aug 26, 2021
El Salvador's Central Bank Publishes Draft Banking Regulations Under the Bitcoin Law
El Salvador's Central Bank Publishes Draft Banking Regulations Under the Bitcoin Law

On September 7th, El Salvador's Ley Bitcoin ("Bitcoin Law") officially goes into effect, enacting the law passed in Congress on June 9th in the Central American country. Leading up to that day, the Salvadoran central bank, Banco Central de Reserva (BCR), this week published draft guidelines

News  •  Economy  •  Aug 18, 2021
Bitcoin Satellite Network Has "Massive Potential" for Tonga: Parliament Member
Bitcoin Satellite Network Has "Massive Potential" for Tonga: Parliament Member

A member of Tonga’s parliament has expressed interest in helping connect the tiny Polynesian nation to Blockstream’s Bitcoin satellite network.   Lord Fusitu’a Tweeted Friday that he had received a satellite kit from Blockstream CSO Samson Mow and was looking forward to setting it up, adding that it

News  •  Economy  •  Jul 31, 2021
J.P. Morgan Says Bitcoin Is Too Illiquid to Be Legal Tender. Are They Right?
J.P. Morgan Says Bitcoin Is Too Illiquid to Be Legal Tender. Are They Right?

Illiquidity could place a “significant limitation" on Bitcoin's use as a medium of exchange in El Salvador, according to analysts from J.P. Morgan. The banking behemoth's report was released last Thursday and reported on by Bloomberg on Sunday. It references El Salvador's

News  •  Bitcoin  •  Jul 14, 2021
ECB Says Digital Euro Will Be More Climate-Friendly Than Bitcoin
ECB Says Digital Euro Will Be More Climate-Friendly Than Bitcoin

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

News  •  Economy  •  Jul 13, 2021
Bitcoin Mining Among the World's Greenest Industries, Mining Council Reports
Bitcoin Mining Among the World's Greenest Industries, Mining Council Reports

Bitcoin mining has one of the highest sustainable energy mix of all global industries, according to the first report by the Bitcoin Mining Council.  The executive summary of the report provides a strong rebuttal to detractors of the industry, stating that “Bitcoin mining uses negligible amounts of energy, is rapidly

News  •  Bitcoin  •  Jul 01, 2021
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