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Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream is launching an on-demand Lightning node service to support users looking to set up a node with little effort. The company announced the new all-in-one service on Wednesday via a press release shared with the BTC Times. Called Greenlight, the service is built on top of
The EU Commission has released an extensive set of proposals to tighten its anti-money laundering legislation. The package includes a number of measures, all of which are looking to further increase monetary surveillance in the EU. Aside from an EU-wide ban on cash payments exceeding €10,000, what may interest
Long-awaited by some members of the Bitcoin space, Elon Musk joined Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood on Wednesday for "the talk" at Square's Bitcoin conference 'The B Word.' The Tesla and SpaceX CEO's discussion with Dorsey and
News - Bitcoin - Jul 20, 2021Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream is launching an on-demand Lightning node service to support users looking to set up a node with little effort. The company announced the new all-in-one service on Wednesday via a press release shared with the BTC Times. Called Greenlight, the service is built on top of
News - Business - Jul 20, 2021The EU Commission has released an extensive set of proposals to tighten its anti-money laundering legislation. The package includes a number of measures, all of which are looking to further increase monetary surveillance in the EU. Aside from an EU-wide ban on cash payments exceeding €10,000, what may interest
News - Politics - Jul 19, 2021Turkey's Deputy Minister of Treasury and Finance Sakir Ercan Gül is set to present a draft bill to parliament providing a regulatory framework for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies later this year. Besides setting clear licensing requirements for local exchanges and introducing minimum capital requirements for cryptocurrency companies, the
News - Politics - Jul 18, 2021Illiquidity 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, 2021Likely 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, 2021Another 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.
News - Business - Jul 13, 2021