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With its success in the U.S., PayPal plans to expand its crypto service to other countries aside from the U.K.

As the blockchain market shows steady growth, related new concept technologies are also being focused. One of the notable among various technologies is NFT (Non Fungible Token). The NFT market, such as art, games, and…

BTC’s current price represents a 70 percent increase in just over a month when the crypto traded at $29,608.60 on July 21, 2021.

The accounts contained around 7 percent of the Bitcoin mining firm’s cash.

One of the responsibilities of the digital currency manager is to develop payments use cases and initiate business or investments orientated around the use of cryptos.

The crypto exchange might use its cash stockpile to fund new product rollouts as a way to diversify its revenue sources and lessen its reliance on transaction fees.

Nigel Green said that Ethereum’s ascent to the top of the cryptoverse seems unstoppable.

The bank’s new crypto custody service is aimed at the growing institutional and retail interest for digital assets in the country.

Authorities arrested two persons allegedly involved in the scam, which led to the discovery of the storage device containing Ether.

Ghe National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) issued a warning to the public on 12 entities including crypto exchanges Huobi and Bybit, saying that the entities are not registered with the regulator.

Bitfarms expects an eight-fold increase in its Bitcoin mining capacity by 2022.

The company also prefers someone with an entrepreneurial mindset and one who possesses significant functional knowledge of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and players involved.

The Kakao Group has allocated $300 million for the global expansion of the Klayton platform.

The Bitcoin rewards company partnered with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to launch the GoSats reward card.

Scott Melker believes that the approval of an exchange-traded fund would be the biggest catalyst that could propel Bitcoin and Ether to new heights.

The number of crypto users worldwide has now surged to around 300 million people this year.

A new study by Statista revealed that five countries are ahead of the rest when it comes to crypto usage.

The company has a total Bitcoin balance of 3,824 valued at around $166 million as of June 30.

The family's crypto hardware wallets are not stored in a vault below ground but are rather kept in a variety of locations that include rental apartments, self-storage sites, and even in friends’ homes.

The hackers reportedly used “a vulnerability between contract calls” to pull off the largest crypto heist ever.

The crypto exchange announced a net income of $1.6 billion and an adjusted EBITDA of $1.1 billion for the second quarter.

Grayscale Investments views the statement made by SEC Chairman Gary Gensler as a positive development.

Three South Korean banks that entered into partnerships with crypto exchanges raked in a total of 16.9 billion won (around $14.71 million) in transaction fees generated from such arrangements for the second quarter.

Pintu crypto app downloads rose by 3.5 times through organic growth and the platform’s active users increase by 4 times during the first half of 2021.

AMC Entertainment Holdings announced plans to accept Bitcoin payments by the end of the year.

A number of crypto experts now believe that BTC’s price has the potential to go to $100,000 or higher.

A crypto analyst believes that BTC and ETH will likely resume their upward trajectory and predicted Bitcoin's price could potentially soar to $100K.

Brian Brooks, Binance.US’s CEO and a former regulator, announced his departure from the company citing “differences over strategic direction.”

Xiaomi explained that the Portuguese retailer is a third-party authorized partner, which operates independently from the Chinese smartphone manufacturer.

Starting on August 5, JPMorgan’s financial advisors were allowed to accept placements from private bank clients into the new Bitcoin fund created by the crypto firm New York Digital Investment Group.

Global fashion label, the Philipp Plein Group, is set to become the first major fashion brand to accept crypto as payments including BTC and ETH.

CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz declared that cryptocurrencies are commodities and should fall under CFTC’s jurisdiction just as securities should be regulated by the SEC.

Through four of its index funds, Fidelity bought shares of the BTC mining firm worth $20 million which was completed on July 22, 2021.

Unlike El Salvador’s case, the bill is not proposing the use of any crypto such as Bitcoin as legal tender.

Pompliano said that it all depends on how the company harnesses the combined potential of both businesses.

The proposed bill will allow homeowners to use crypto for paying their mortgages while allowing the real estate sector to use their own crypto to invest in mortgage pools.

The tech giant revised its policies in June to allow crypto ads but advertisements on initial coin offerings (ICO) are still banned from the platform.

Consumers are interested in crypto's possible enhanced privacy and security features compared to credit card or bank account-based payments.

As a fully-featured Mastercard, CoinJar Card users can use crypto to make payments for purchases wherever Mastercard is accepted.

Fully deployed and operational, this translates to a capacity of around 13.3 EH/s, which is around 12 percent of the Bitcoin network’s total hash rate as of August 1, 2021, which is around 109 EH/s.