2024-10-30 21:29 |
U.S. President Joe Biden called Bola Tinubu, the President of Nigeria, on Tuesday to personally thank him for the recent release of detained American Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan. origin »
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In a striking move that merges fashion with cryptocurrency, former President Donald Trump has announced the release of limited-edition Bitcoin-themed sneakers. This development comes on the heels of Trump’s recent speech at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, where he delivered a keynote address on July 27, 2024.
2024-8-1 21:49 | |
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Former United States President Donald Trump vows to free Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht if re-elected.
2024-5-26 04:37 | |
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Former US President Donald Trump reenters the NFT arena with a bold move—launching the ‘MugShot Edition’ collection. Priced at $99 each and featuring 100,000 NFTs on the Polygon network, this release follows Trump’s successful foray into digital trading cards last year.
2023-12-13 12:21 | |
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Pro-Bitcoin President-Elect Javier Milei has announced plans to dissolve Argentina’s Central Bank to combat the country’s economic crisis and inflationary pressures. Milei To Abolish Argentina’s Central Bank In a press release published by the Office of President Javier Milei on X (formerly Twitter), the administration declared that all official information regarding Milei’s future government […]
2023-11-26 23:00 | |
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The former U.S. president returned to X (formerly Twitter) for the first time since January 2021 to post his mugshot, which has now been thoroughly manipulated for memes by many users.
2023-8-26 20:00 | |
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Former U. S. President Donald Trump’s NFT collections trading volume spiked by more than 3700% following his surrender to authorities in Georgia on Aug. 24. According to Coingecko data, the former President’s collection Series 1 and 2 trading volume jumped by roughly 300% and 3,750% in the last 24 hours to 18.
2023-8-25 17:00 | |
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OKX President Hong Fang said in a press release that the expansion is a big step towards empowering users. The exchange expects the new office in place over coming months. OKX was founded in 2017 and offers spot, margin and derivatives trading for its customers across the world.
2023-5-8 18:33 | |
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Former US President Donald Trump announced the release of a second set of his NFT collection, Trump Digital Trading Cards. The 47,000 non-fungible tokens in the collection, minted on the Polygon blockchain, will continue to be sold for their initial…
2023-4-19 12:18 | |
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President Biden urges technology companies to prioritize secure AI products before public release, stressing the need to address potential risks to society, national security and the economy.
2023-4-5 12:11 | |
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Incredible. As it turns out, the Central African Republic is the second country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. An official press release from the president’s chief of staff, Obed Namsio, confirms the news.
2022-4-28 13:44 | |
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Bitcoin Depot, the biggest cryptocurrency ATM operator worldwide, announced their 7,000th Bitcoin ATM has recently been deployed in North America, Invezz learned from a press release. Brandon Mintz, president and CEO of Bitcoin Depot commented: It’s no doubt the crypto market has captured mainstream interest, and the demand from consumers and retail industry giants continues […] The post Bitcoin Depot breaks record with most ATMs in the world appeared first on Invezz.
2022-3-16 10:19 | |
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Marcus Sotiriou, an analyst at UK-based asset broker GlobalBlock, believes the Executive Order on crypto from US President Joe Biden might go either way. With the Biden administration set to release the order as early as February, the market is in disarray, seeing as no one knows whether the order will impact the burgeoning asset […] The post GlobalBlock analyst: It’s hard to predict how Biden’s Executive Order will affect crypto appeared first on Invezz.
2022-2-1 01:42 | |
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Under the leadership of US President Joe Biden, the White House is likely to release an executive order–assigning federal agencies to approach the cryptocurrency sector as a matter of national security.
2022-1-28 19:00 | |
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US President Joseph Biden will decide the fate of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the US with a White House Executive Order (EO) scheduled for release in February. Biden’s executive order will probably glean from a series of reports and guidelines issued by the US treasury, the Congress finance oversight committee, and the US Federal […]
2022-1-27 02:20 | |
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Bit2Me, a cryptocurrency firm based in Spain, has announced that the former President of MasterCard International Baldomero Falcones has joined the company as a senior advisor. According to the company through a press release, Baldomero will help the company expand its card division to the global market.
2021-8-27 11:16 | |
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Financial services giant PayPal has expanded the limit to the amount of crypto that its users can purchase in a week. The company’s Vice President and General Manager of Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Assets, Jose Fernandez da Ponte shared this news through a press release on July 15.
2021-7-16 13:50 | |
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Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has become the first national legislature to release a non-fungible token. The special NFT has been created for the country’s new president, Isaac Herzog, who took office this week after his election in early June.
2021-7-9 08:30 | |
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Nerves and Release Joe Biden’s inauguration today was met with fanfare and nerves. After the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol building in Washington, there was a bit of tension in the air. Eugene Goodman, a Capitol police officer who calmly and singlehandedly kept an angry group at bay, was in attendance.
2021-1-21 21:33 | |
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The Bitcoin price surged from $7,600 to $8,400 within a span of minutes on Oct. 25, almost immediately after Chinese President Xi Jinping said that China would focus on blockchain development. Is China a factor? Some investors anticipate that the rare release of a positive stance of the government of China on blockchain development could […] The post What triggered Bitcoin’s price to suddenly surge 10% within minutes? Traders react appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-10-26 19:58 | |
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The Dow Jones had its upward momentum sharply arrested after a bombshell news leak alleged that President Donald Trump was considering limiting US portfolio inflows to China and booting Chinese firms from US stock exchanges.
2019-9-28 22:06 | |
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Goldman Sachs vice president and known Bitcoin skeptic Richard Gnodde is among 17 senior executives who could face ten years’ in prison for money laundering. Vice President Could Face 10 Years In Jail According to a press release from Malaysia’s attorney general August 9, Gnodde is now wanted in connection with the infamous 1MDB scandal from 2013.
2019-8-10 01:00 | |
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The US Treasury Department on Monday designated China as a currency manipulator in a historic move that hasn’t been exercised since the Clinton administration. “Secretary Mnuchin, under the auspices of President Trump, has today determined that China is a Currency Manipulator,” the Treasury Department said in a release. “As a result of this determination, Secretary […]
2019-8-6 16:10 | |
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The vice president of Bradesco, the largest Brazilian bank, has recently affirmed that all the major Brazilian banks will start to use a unique blockchain platform soon. The announcement was made today, June 11, during the CIAB Febraban, a major banking and fintech event in the region. According to Mauricio Minas, the blockchain has a […]
2019-6-12 01:17 | |
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Sharding project Zilliqa (ZIL) today announced the release of its new smart contract functionality. Developers will be able to write distributed applications in a secure, bug-resistant programming language, known as Scilla.
2019-6-10 19:30 | |
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By CCN: AT&T announced today that it is accepting crypto payments through Bitpay, which supports a number of major cryptocurrencies. A short press release notes that the integration is complete and users can make payments with Bitpay via the AT&T website or through the mobile app.
2019-5-24 03:20 | |
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AT&T customers can now use bitcoin to settle their bills online. According to a press release from the Dallas-based mobile carrier, customers who want to use cryptocurrency to pay their bills can do so by selecting BitPay as a payment option on the myAT&T app or when they log in to their account.
2019-5-24 22:47 | |
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By CCN: Following a New York Times report that President Trump lost over $1 billion between 1985 and 1994, hypocritical Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are pointing their fingers at Trump and labeling him a #billiondollarloser.
2019-5-10 00:17 | |
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Following months of speculation about its proposed release date, Japan’s largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. has finally announced plans to launch its long-awaited in-house digital currency.
2019-4-13 13:22 | |
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Coinspeaker One of World’s Largest Banks, MUFG Getting Ready to Release Its Stablecoin This YearThe newly-appointed president of MUFG has announced that the bank is going to put its own cryptocurrency known as MUFG Coin to practice this year.
2019-4-10 22:35 | |
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Marco Santori, the President and Chief Legal Officer of Blockchain, spoke about the recent framework released by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] during an interview with Laura Shin for Unchained Podcast.
2019-4-6 02:30 | |
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Chief Executive Officer and minority stakeholder of Swisscom Blockchain, Daniel Haudenshild has stepped down from his position. Although a press release was issued by the company, they avoided giving specific reasons for this change in management.
2019-2-1 19:56 | |
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In a press release and accompanying video posted on YouTube, financial services company Western Union has expressed interest in adopting blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. The video published December 17, 2018, features President Western Union Global Money Transfer, Odilon Almeida, as saying that the company could be uniquely positioned to take digital currency usage and adoption mainstream.
2018-12-19 20:00 | |
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Horizen (ZEN), formerly called ZenCash, is a privacy-focused blockchain network with an ambitious goal: to put consumers back in control of their digital footprint. Last week, I spoke with Horizen Co-founder and President Rob Viglione to learn more about Horizen as well as the platform’s recent brand expansion.
2018-11-14 02:35 | |
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Google Ventures-backed Blockchain is debuting a hardware wallet that integrates with its software services, a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine details. In a partnership with hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger, the cryptocurrency software company has developed what it calls “a custom hardware device.
2018-10-26 19:38 | |
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Coinbase has secured approval from New York state regulators to act “as a limited purpose trust company” in the state, a press release reveals. According to the release, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has officially signed off on an application for the Coinbase Custody Trust Company, a subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc.
2018-10-24 00:55 | |
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A week ahead of the OnePlus 6T’s launch, the company’s CEO Carl Pei has announced that OnePlus will launch a 5G-enabled phone next year. On the stage of the 4G/5G summit in Hong Kong, Pei said that the company will release the phone in the first half of 2019, making it one of the first companies to launch a 5G-enabled phone.
2018-10-23 15:34 | |
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The man who created Atari has moved on to blockchain-based gaming. Neil Bushnell’s X2 Games has been acquired by Canadian-based Global Blockchain (BLOC), a crypto investment firm, in hopes that Bushnell’s expertise will lead to another gaming industry revolution — this time with the help of blockchain technology.
2018-10-16 00:06 | |
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Fidelity Investments has launched a new business to allow its institutional clients to trade in digital currencies such as bitcoin, a press release reveals. Known as Fidelity Digital Asset Services, LLC, the company will purchase and sell cryptocurrencies for family offices, hedge funds and other monetary ventures.
2018-10-16 22:22 | |
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have weighed in on sovereign considerations and global implications of blockchain and other financial services technologies.
2018-10-15 19:01 | |
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The former White House economic adviser, Gary Cohn, has just started a new career in blockchain. Announced in a press release on Friday, the ex-Goldman Sachs president is to advise fintech startup Spring Labs, who build blockchain-focused solutions for securing and sharing consumer credit data.
2018-10-12 18:19 | |
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GMO Internet Group is working to launch a stablecoin by 2019. In an announcement released on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, the Japanese IT conglomerate said it is putting all gears in place to begin building its stablecoin, called the GMO Japanese Yen (GJY).
2018-10-10 02:10 | |
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On Monday, Oct. 1, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the official launch of the country’s official cryptocurrency, called Petro, alongside the release of the Spanish-language white paper for the coin.
2018-10-3 17:00 | |
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Say what you like about the folks at Ripple Labs, but they sure know how to organize a party. The creators of the XRP token are expected to open the annual Swell conference in San Francisco with several major deliveries, including a keynote speech from a former president, another jump in market cap rankings and new […] The post Ripple Opens Swell With Another Flip and Another Release appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2018-10-2 17:44 | |
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The Italian football club Rimini, which plays in the Italian Serie C division, has sold a portion of the team’s shares in exchange for cryptocurrency. The first-of-its-kind acquisition was made by Heritage Sports Holdings (HSH), a sports investment company based in the United Arab Emirates.
2018-8-30 21:01 | |
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Hyperinflation in Venezuela is so bad, the nation’s Central Bank has released an Android app to help citizens calculate how many new sovereign bolivar units they possess. The release arrives after the national government re-denominated the old currency last week.
2018-8-28 13:00 | |
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This November, cryptocurrency users will be introduced to Bakkt, a new company designed to give millions of retail merchants the chance to buy, sell and trade digital currencies — and even buy a cup of coffee.
2018-8-4 00:38 | |
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On Tuesday, July 31, San Francisco-based blockchain startup Ripple Labs announced that former U. S President Bill Clinton will be addressing a keynote at the company’s upcoming Swell Conference scheduled on October 1.
2018-8-1 11:17 | |
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Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to U. S. President Donald Trump and one of the masterminds behind the tactics that led Trump to win the elections, confirmed in an interview with CNBC that he is working on the creation of his own cryptocurrency.
2018-7-21 23:53 | |
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Stronghold, a cryptocurrency trading platform housed by Stellar, is launching a stablecoin on its parent network’s blockchain in collaboration with IBM. Stronghold USD will be backed with “one-to-one U.
2018-7-18 22:00 | |
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The GENIUS bill passed the Senate Banking Committee on March 13 with a vote of 18-6 The aim is to get the bill on US President Donald Trump’s desk and signed in the next two months The STABLE Act is scheduled for the House Financial Services Committee on April 2 The White House is pushing […] The post Report: White House pushes Congress to pass stablecoin bill appeared first on CoinJournal.
Several Ethereum key metrics are witnessing a positive sentiment following a renewed upward momentum in the digital asset’s price. Favorable macroeconomic and market conditions are believed to have bolstered the uptrend in ETH’s price and market dynamics, reflecting the potential for more price growth.
On Dec. 6, US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that David Sacks has been named the “White House AI and Crypto Czar. ” In his new role, Sacks will lead efforts to establish a legal framework for crypto regulation and chair the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology.
The co-author of Biden’s executive order on crypto Carole House has rejoined the White House as Special Advisor for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Policy. Carole House, a former director of cybersecurity and secure digital innovation for the White House who…
Issued Monday, President Biden's executive order is aimed at potential threats posed by artificial intelligence, but critics of the White House action wonder if innovation could be stifled.
The letter was signed by crypto opponents and many lawmakers who had been neutral on crypto until now.