2021-5-14 15:11 |
The city of Williston of North Dakota has officially started accepting cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin for utility payments via BitPay. origin »
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Sevilla is becoming a crypto-friendly city in Spain at a fast pace, with two prominent local hotels announcing they will start accepting crypto payments. Hotel Bécquer and Hotel Kivir have joined the crypto adoption bandwagon by allowing customers to book rooms with digital assets.
2021-4-24 10:30 | |
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Another city in the United States is looking to add Bitcoin payments and mining activities to the city’s balance sheet.
2021-4-22 19:15 | |
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Back in mid-February, Bitcoin.com News reported on Miami’s Mayor Francis Suarez supporting the idea of the city holding bitcoin in the treasury and allowing tax payments in bitcoin as well. On April 15, 2021, reports show that the city may introduce the tax payments concept soon, as the District 8 county commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins […]
2021-4-17 02:30 | |
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A government-owned entity in Dubai has started accepting bitcoin, ether and tether as payment for its services, according to local media reports. Kiklabb is a free trade zone that helps companies set up shop in Dubai, a wealthy city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
2021-2-17 12:30 | |
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CEO Jeffrey Berns says the smart city could incorporate digital currency payments for goods and services as well as records on the blockchain.
2021-2-14 22:30 | |
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The U. S. city of Miami is going full bitcoin. The city commissioners have voted to support the mayor’s resolution to allow payments in bitcoin for salaries, taxes, and fees. The city also supports efforts to make bitcoin an acceptable currency for potentially investing in the state treasury.
2021-2-13 23:10 | |
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The city council of Lebrija has created a virtual currency ‘Elio’ that can only be used for payments made to small and medium businesses, according to a report by Diario de Sevilla. Read more: Spain’s Second-Largest Bank Will Soon Launch Crypto Services: Sources
2020-12-29 15:20 | |
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According to January 29, 2020, announcement by major crypto financial services company Bitcoin Suisse, the Swiss city of Zermatt has now become the second city in Switzerland which allows taxpayers to pay their taxes in Bitcoin (BTC).
2020-1-30 22:00 | |
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The city of Konya, Turkey is developing its own coin with the aim of providing blockchain-based payments for public services
2020-1-21 11:47 | |
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Stellar's first-ever conference in Mexico City gathered entrepreneurs eager to lean into global financial regulations.
2019-11-8 22:30 | |
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Even though cartel members are no longer burning down the city, its residents are still threatened by extortionists who demand?payments in Bitcoin
2019-10-21 17:00 | |
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A member of the Berkeley City Council has reportedly become the first elected official to purchase cannabis with cryptocurrency. City Council Member Makes Cannabis Purchase with Crypto According to The Daily Californian, Ben Bartlett of the Berkeley City Council purchased cannabis using cryptocurrency during an event organized by the Blockchain Advocacy Coalition.
2019-9-16 20:00 | |
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In California, cryptocurrency payments are making headway in the cannabis industry as Berkeley City Councilmember Ben Bartlett became the first elected official to purchase cannabis using a digital asset.
2019-9-12 23:51 | |
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One of Brazil’s largest cities with a 2.7 mln population has started implementing Bitcoin payments in public transport, the new feature will start work later this year
2019-7-29 15:30 | |
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Bitcoin takes another step toward mass adoption as a Toronto suburb favorably votes to accept Bitcoin for property tax payments. Cash, Credit or BTC? Canadians living in the Toronto suburb of the City of Richmond Hill can now pay their property taxes in Bitcoin thanks to a partnership between the municipality and Coinberry.
2019-7-17 19:00 | |
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According to a press release dated July 15, 2019, the city of Richmond Hill, Canada, is rolling out a project that allows residents to pay property taxes with bitcoin (BTC) through crypto startup, Coinberry.
2019-7-17 09:00 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceCoinberry, a Canadian-based, FINTRAC-registered digital currency platform, has begun negotiations with the City of Richmond Hill to provide a bitcoin payment processing solution for property tax payments.
2019-7-16 07:07 | |
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Following a recent council approval, Canadian City of Richmond Hill will be exploring providing crypto asset property tax payments. Helping to provide the service will be domestic digital currency platform, Coinberry.
2019-7-16 02:00 | |
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A second town in Florida has paid over $500,000 in Bitcoin to hackers following a ransomware attack. Officials in Lake City paid the hackers after their computer systems were down for two weeks.
2019-6-27 17:13 | |
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By CCN Markets: Hackers who paralyzed Florida’s Riviera Beach City’s IT infrastructure are about to laugh all the way to the bank. This is after the Riviera Beach City Council voted to authorize the city’s insurer to meet the ransom demands of the hackers who planted ransomware in the city’s computer systems.
2019-6-21 18:29 | |
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Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, has been the topic of conversation across the space lately. In New York Blockchain Week, DeFi has been a main focus of Consensus 2019, and has similarly been the focus of many of the other events and meetups that are taking place elsewhere in the city.
2019-5-15 21:42 | |
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While the Crypto Winter may be lingering with us into the spring, crypto exchanges are doing just fine. According to CoinMarketCap, there are now 255 major crypto exchanges.
2019-5-4 22:14 | |
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Bitcoin Press Release: Scalable dApp creation platform Squeezer. io will help software developers integrate decentralized apps into already established business infrastructures. Monday 22nd April, 2019, Belize City, BELIZE – Scalable dApp creation platform Squeezer.
2019-4-26 22:30 | |
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Monday 22nd April, 2019, Belize City, BELIZE – Scalable dApp creation platform Squeezer. io will help software developers integrate decentralized apps into already established business infrastructures.
2019-4-23 01:57 | |
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The number of merchants accepting Bitcoin is growing worldwide, but there’s a caveat. The majority of the Bitcoin users don’t want to spend the digital gold, at least not yet. 15K Merchants Accepting BTC worldwide At 14,518 as of April 2019, the number of merchants accepting BTC payments is on the rise, with a large concentration in Europe and the U.
2019-4-9 16:00 | |
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The adoption of virtual currency has been riding high in Eastern and Central Europe with Croatia and Slovenia seeing waves of use-cases. Several retail stores are integrating crypto-centric payments applications within their services, and offering a variety of support coins.
2019-4-7 09:36 | |
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Authorities at the Kiev City State Administration (KCSA) are reportedly re-examining the merits of adopting Bitcoin (BTC) payments in the city’s public transport system. The move is part of efforts to upgrade Kiev’s public transport infrastructure to meet up with the standards seen in other major cities across the globe.
2019-4-2 23:00 | |
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Ohio might have made history as the first city to accept cryptocurrency for corporate taxes, but one Canadian town is adding its name to the books by becoming the first in North America to permit its citizens to pay their personal taxes in bitcoin.
2019-3-28 19:04 | |
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The Wall Street Journal reports today that Philadelphia is the latest jurisdiction to pass a law against not accepting cash. Most retailers in the city must accept cash beginning in July. Democrats are leading the charge on these laws, viewing them as a way to protect people who don’t have credit or debit cards.
2019-3-8 05:15 | |
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Компания Bob Moore Auto Group заключила партнерство с процессингом Aliant Payments, благодаря которому держатели криптовалюты Litecoin (LTC) смогут покупать автомобили за криптовалюту. Bob Moore Auto Group has signed on with @AliantPayment to accept Litecoin at their dealerships! The first to have it will be the #1 dealership in Oklahoma City, @bobmooresubaru1. 🚀 Many thanks to […]
2019-2-2 20:51 | |
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Mongolia’s capital city of Ulaanbaatar has unveiled plans to launch a pilot program that will see the city’s Nalaikh district deploy a blockchain-based payment system developed by stablecoin startup Terra.
2019-1-12 03:44 | |
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Mongolia’s capital city of Ulaanbaatar has unveiled plans to launch a pilot program that will see the city’s Nalaikh district deploy a blockchain-based payment system developed by stablecoin startup Terra.
2019-1-13 03:44 | |
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The Chinese port of Shenzhen is progressing with blockchain initiatives in a major way. After setting up a virtual blockchain exchange and blockchain-based city and port management systems, the municipality looks towards solving the problem of invoicing and customer claims using the technology, reported local publication Economic Daily on December 13, 2018.
2018-12-15 22:00 | |
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Shenzhen Economic Zone Wants To Implement Blockchain For Electronic Tax Invoices Shenzhen will start to use blockchain technology for electronic tax invoices. The city is one of the most important in China and it aims at improving the taxing system.
2018-12-13 01:48 | |
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As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency.
2018-11-1 23:35 | |
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The city of Dubai has plans to launch its own digital currency. Emcash will be rolled out in the coming years and is being made possible by a state-backed firm called emcredit. Emcash to be Launched Later This Year, Pending Full Approval Those living in Dubai will soon be able to make payments for a.
2018-10-9 01:30 | |
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Dubai City Creates The Stable & Regulator-backed Emcash Cryptocurrency For Its Residents! The world of blockchain will soon be leveraged by the UAE population in a good number of activities following its credit bureau ‘Emcredit’ partnership with Pundi X, Loyalty Labs LLC & Ebooc Fintech.
2018-10-8 22:37 | |
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Binance has announced a $2. 5 million investment in Australian travel startup TravelbyBit in a move to introduce a blockchain-based, point-of-sale (POS) payment system across major airports around the world.
2018-10-4 17:50 | |
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New Public Blockchain Licensing Deal Established Between Hydrogen And TD Bank Hydrogen provides an ecosystem that is completely decentralized for consumers to have access to multiple financial services, including AI, record keeping, authentication, payments, and ID services.
2018-9-27 22:19 | |
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Tel Aviv-based multi-asset global investment platform eToro has entered into a historic partnership with seven Premier League football clubs, which will make payments to their players in Bitcoins.
2018-8-21 20:30 | |
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The Lightning Network, the second-layer solution designed to make quick, cheap and easy Bitcoin payments, is maturing. But widespread adoption, still a long way off, will require plenty more participants.
2018-8-20 16:40 | |
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Image: Shutterstock Ripple recently gathered over two dozen central banks from around the world to explore how new technologies enable the next generation of payments. The Central Bank Summit on Blockchain, hosted at Carnegie Hall in New York City, gathered central banks’ senior leadership, payment strategy leads and oversight staff for a focused discussion on … Continued The post Ripple Hosts World’s Central Banks to Explore Next Generation of Payments appeared first on Ripple.
2018-6-17 12:50 | |
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Bitget saw a 683% increase in Gen Z users in November, marking a shift in crypto demographics following Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. Gen Z’s share of new users on the crypto exchange jumped from 26.
What are the key trends highlighted by the global crypto adoption index, and how do they reflect crypto’s role in global economic shifts? The global crypto adoption index is an essential tool for understanding how well different countries are adopting…
Chanalysis submitted a Polkadot governance proposal on April 18 that could lead to a $10 million partnership. The services provided by Chainalysis will include monitoring and tracing the DOT token activities on the Relay Chain, ensuring visibility of any potentially risky on-chain actions to regulators and institutional entities.
Banking giant HSBC is set to introduce digital asset custody services for tokenized securities such as bonds on the blockchain. The bank expects to go live with the service in 2024. The service is geared toward institutional investors and will continue expanding the lender’s offerings in the digital asset realm.
Advocates for the Bitcoin Lightning Network and decentralized protocol Nostr funded Kweks’ Kilimanjaro climb.
Polygon Labs announced on Sept. 29 that it has added Google Cloud to the decentralized group of validators powering its proof-of-stake Network. Polygon said in its statement that Google Cloud is now among more than 100 validators who secure the Polygon PoS Network, a network that originally operated under the name Matic Network and which […] The post Polygon adds Google Cloud to its validator set appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Pudgy Penguins has announced a merchandising deal with retail giant Walmart that will introduce its IP to the megastore’s shelves in over 2,000 stores. The Pudgy Toys—plush collectibles that will now be sold alongside legacy brands in Walmart’s brick-and-mortar stores—will offer access Pudgy World, a digital social experience on zkSync Era.