Grand Hotel Dolder, a five star luxury hotel located in Zurich, has announced plans to start accepting bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) from clients via a smartphone cryptocurrency payments app jointly developed by Inacta, a Zug-based fintech firm, and Bity, a crypto trading platform, reports Finews on March 28, 2019. Hotel Dolder Embrace Cryptos PerRead More origin »
In a decision that could rattle the Chinese regulators, a newly opened hotel announced that it is accepting payments in Ether. Ethereum Hotel, as the establishment is called, opened its doors at the National Scenic Area of China’s Sichuan province, becoming the first hotel in the country that publicly accepts cryptocurrency.
The founder of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx was detained for questioning on September 10, 2018, by Shanghai police to investigate a case of suspected digital currency fraud related to WFee coin.
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