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America is at significant risk of falling into irrelevance where the potential next big wave of innovation is concerned. Talent and money is now more and more flowing to Europe... origin »
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LIGA, a blockchain platform powered by Waves built to tokenize big sporting events by creating unique cards for every team taking part in a competition, announced today the launch of a presale of tokens for the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League season.
2019-11-21 21:28 | |
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The world is in a state of climate emergency. The importance of tackling climate change has arguably never been higher. Governments around the world are coming under increasing pressure to act and deliver initiatives to make our cities greener, cleaner, and all-round better places to live.
2019-10-1 17:47 | |
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Bertrand Perez, General Director of the Libra Association, told the French financial media Les Echos that the stablecoin project backed by Facebook would go live by the end of 2020. His comments come a day after French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire pledged to stop Libra in Europe.
2019-9-14 18:00 | |
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French President, Emmanuel Macron, has started turning up the heat before this weekend’s G7 summit. At a press meeting yesterday, Macron stuck to France’s policy of upping taxes on big tech, calling the system which provides companies with a “permanent tax haven status” simply “crazy,” The Local reports.
2019-8-22 12:10 | |
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Banking giants are in trouble and it’s starting to show. Key players in the industry have already announced massive job cuts and executives with hefty salaries have been dismissed. HSBC, the largest bank in Europe, has revealed it plans to lay off over 4,000 employees and Citigroup is preparing to shrink its trading staff slashing […] The post Big Banks, Big Troubles: HSBC, Deutsche, Societe, and Citi Lay Off Thousands Worldwide appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-8-9 03:00 | |
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Germany, the locomotive of Europe’s huge economy, is entering a difficult period, various indicators suggest. And when the Federal Republic sneezes, the Old Continent usually catches a cold.
2019-8-3 14:19 | |
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Germany, the locomotive of Europe’s huge economy, is entering a difficult period, various indicators suggest. And when the Federal Republic sneezes, the Old Continent usually catches a cold.
2019-8-3 14:19 | |
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Don’t look now, but the bitcoin price is already surging back from its early July lows to trade comfortably above $11,000. And one fundamental catalyst might have come from an unlikely ally: US President Donald Trump.
2019-7-4 00:51 | |
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Despite dividing opinions earlier this year with its “cryptocurrency” JPM Coin, American bank JP Morgan is rolling out its blockchain-based tech to more clients. JP Morgan says potential clients from the US, Europe, and Japan are interested in using its digital coin to speed up securities trading, Bloomberg reports.
2019-6-25 15:41 | |
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Crypto has scored yet another major milestone. Benfica, a major European soccer club, has become the first team in Europe to accept cryptocurrencies as a form of payment for its online sales. Crypto payment solution UTRUST announced on June 5 a partnership with Benfica that allows fans to buy tickets and merchandise online using Bitcoin […] Crypto Scores Big As Major European Soccer Team Accepts Bitcoin and Ethereum was originally found on Cryptocurrency News | Tech, Privacy, Bitcoin & Blockchain | Blokt.
2019-6-10 16:19 | |
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Banking giants in the U. S. , Japan, and across Europe have created a consortium that will use cryptocurrency technology in cross-border transfers. The move also presents a direct competitor for Ripple’s XRP token.
2019-6-3 19:00 | |
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Europe is bracing itself for a big shake-up in how we pay for things online, which will have significant consequences for businesses across the region. Similar to how GDPR hugely impacted how millions of organizations handle personal data when it was enforced last year, Strong Customer Authentication (or SCA) will have profound implications for how businesses handle online transactions and how we pay for things in our everyday lives when it is enforced on September 14.
2019-5-10 12:00 | |
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The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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By CCN: Tesla (TSLA) has had a poor first quarter in 2019, suffering from various occurrences such as the reported explosion of a Tesla Model 3 in China and a big miss on earnings. From January to March, Tesla was expected to generate a revenue of $5.
2019-5-2 01:45 | |
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The European Union and its citizens seem increasingly unhappy with the current flow of data, privacy violations, and the overall power of data being in the hands of a few big corporations, located in the USA.
2019-3-9 10:30 | |
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French President Affirms The Blockchain Could Put Europe At The Vanguard Of Innovation Again The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has recently affirmed that technologies like the blockchain technology could be an important boost for innovation in France in the whole of Europe.
2019-2-28 21:36 | |
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What more could you want from a country where fairy tales, Lego, and the idea of the chill ‘hygge’ vibe originate? Now Denmark is also one of the most exciting startup scenes in Europe and is home to more than 400 tech companies that do everything from analytics and big data to gaming, cloud, fintech, and apps.
2019-2-14 12:00 | |
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The EU is still plowing ahead with its highly contested Copyright Reform. Trilogue negotiations between the union’s pillars have started again to reach an agreement on the finalized version, and pass the law in March or April this year.
2019-2-7 20:09 | |
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As the crippling US government shutdown rolls into its fifth week major crypto exchanges are looking at alternative markets. They don’t come much bigger than Coinbase which has just expanded trading options for big traders in Europe and Asia.
2019-1-23 11:00 | |
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Binance’s cryptocurrency exchange platform has expanded into the European market with its entry into the Island of Jersey, a self-governing dependency of Great Britain.
2019-1-19 00:50 | |
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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by adjusted trading volume, has taken another big step in its growth by launching a new fiat-to-crypto exchange. The exchange was opened on the self-governing island of Jersey, acting as the exchange’s first fiat-to-crypto outpost, with a focus on serving the UK and Europe.
2019-1-17 12:47 | |
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Экономический эффект Brexit постоянно исследуется и обсуждается. ОЭСР и Казначейство Ее Величества утверждают, что Brexit может отрицательно повлиять на ВВП страны, снизив его к 2020 году на 3%. Банк Англии предлагает еще более устрашающие сценарии.
2018-12-11 15:00 | |
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TNW and Adyen’s annual Tech5 competition is back again. Every day, startups prove individuals can harness the power of technology to actually create change and have a positive impact on society.
2018-11-21 11:09 | |
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Mexico and Chile are among a host of countries that may follow the European Union’s lead in playing hardball on taxes with big tech companies like Facebook, Alphabet, AirBnB, and Uber. In March, the EU proposed a “digital tax” that would affect the revenue of major digital companies like Facebook and Google.
2018-11-8 15:05 | |
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If you’re a tech junkie, you’ve inevitably thought about what it would be like to run into your future self, even just a year from now. What apps would be on your phone? How would your user experience change? What’s the next big thing you won’t be able to imagine your life without? To find out we went to this year’s EIT Digital Challenge where some of Europe’s finest deep tech scaleups and late-stage startups were pitching cutting-edge solutions that will innovate everything from online security to our own personal well-being (see all 10 winners here).
2018-11-6 15:19 | |
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Tensions between the EU and US tech giants are increasing as the union tries to find ways to regulate international tech services in Europe. The union has repeatedly gone after big tech on competition matters and GDPR’s four percent of worldwide annual turnover fines show it doesn’t intend on giving tech giants a free pass.
2018-10-22 12:33 | |
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The tiny Principality of Liechtenstein is taking big steps to become a crypto powerhouse in the center of Europe. Read about the latest developments here. The post Why Tiny Liechtenstein Is Becoming a Crypto Powerhouse appeared first on CoinCentral.
2018-10-16 00:51 | |
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The Santander Bank chain has recently announced the expansion of its Ripple powered platform, OnePay FX for other European countries. Santander also intends to use Ripple ledger for all its payment settlements for the future.
2018-10-10 17:30 | |
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Ljubljana, Slovenia To Host The European Blockchain Hub The capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, will be hosing European Blockchain Hub, a non-profit organization that seeks to become Europe’s leader in bringing together all blockchain stakeholders.
2018-10-9 20:31 | |
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Coinbase Rolls Out GBP Usage for All UK-Based Customers Coinbase has been a truly productive company, exploding onto the cryptocurrency scene and has only been growing year after year. 2017, in particular, was a very big year for the company's operations in Europe, and 2018 is set to become an even bigger one. One of […]
2018-9-29 22:33 | |
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Abra, the all-in-one digital wallet and cryptocurrency exchange, has announced its support for Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) bank accounts. European users can now enable direct wire transfers from European banks to purchase any of Abra’s 28 available cryptocurrencies.
2018-9-7 23:38 | |
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Netcoins, an over-the-counter (OTC) brokerage and virtual ATM software company, announced this week it was enabling bitcoin cash (BCH) for immediate access purchase. For BCH enthusiasts, that’s 21,000 locations, covering Canada, Europe, and Australia where the decentralized currency is now available.
2018-9-4 09:10 | |
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On September 26th at London Olympia, Europe’s premier event in the blockchain calendar celebrates the latest and greatest in Blockchain, DLT and Smart Contracts. Working with respected affiliates such as the Blockchain Research Institute, techUK and 11:FS, Blockchain Live boasts the big names in blockchain with the likes of Bitfury, ConsenSys and EOS sharing the […] The post Blockchain Live: London On September 26th 2018 appeared first on .
2018-7-27 00:17 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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Scaling has been a heated topic for the bitcoin community for some time. Further, even when a technology does become available, getting people to use it becomes the next big hurdle.
2018-7-20 17:33 | |
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Flow Traders NV, Europe’s largest exchange-traded funds (ETF) trader has begun buying and selling Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded notes (ETN). The company becomes the first to reveal its participation in any cryptocurrency ETN.
2018-7-6 07:00 | |
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As part of Coinbase’s initiative to facilitate institutional investment in the cryptocurrency market, the exchange’s Custody service is now live in the US and Europe. Bringing in Big Money Coinbase Custody is a service which provides secure storage for crypto-assets for eligible financial institutions and hedge funds across the world.
2018-7-3 12:00 | |
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Lithuania is hoping to become the next big cryptocurrency destination in Europe as its thriving blockchain businesses have netted it about half a billion euros within a year. The country’s cryptocurrency entrepreneurs lauded the Baltic state for its fast yet inexpensive Internet.
2018-6-27 15:56 | |
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Europe’s competition commissioner has beaten up Google for rigging search results, introduced the right to be forgotten, told Facebook to stop spreading fake news and smashed Apple with multi-billion dollar fines for tax dodging.
2018-6-17 21:07 | |
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The Republic of Malta is an island located just off the Southern Italian coast. It has an estimated population of just 460,000 people and a total area, estimated at 316km2, with this in mind you can argue that all in all, Malta is quite a small place.
2018-6-14 12:30 | |
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The Pi Network price has stabilized in the past few days, outperforming other cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Cardano. Pi coin was trading at $1. 7800 on Tuesday, up by almost 18% from its lowest level this month.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to drop its lawsuit against Kraken, which sought to regulate the cryptocurrency company as a stock exchange, according to the company. “Today marks a pivotal moment for Kraken.
Bitcoin bounces back from multi-month lows. Some altcoins rally on US crypto reserve development.
Cryptocurrency prices have been highly volatile in the past few days. Bitcoin price has moved from last week’s low of $75,000 to over $85,000. The total market cap of all cryptocurrencies has moved to $2.
Bitcoin could risk dropping towards $70k, altcoins see little weekly gains.
Lawmakers have taken a step toward overturning a tax rule that mandates “custodial brokers” to gather and report user data to the IRS. The measure, which has sparked debate over its potential impact on financial institutions and taxpayers, now awaits a vote in the full House of Representatives. On Wednesday, the US House Ways and […]
Cryptocurrencies have demonstrated strong growth in the past few years. Some, like Bitcoin, Mantra, and BNB have become highly popular and rewarding to their investors. Mantra has had quadruple gains in the past 12 months.