Other 15/07/21 12:09 by NewsBTC

How Pontem Network Aims To Unlock Facebook’s Diem Full Potential

There are many initiatives in the blockchain industry that can complement one another rather than serve as competition. For example, the much anticipated Facebook-backed Diem blockchain is a project g...
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Bitcoin 12/05/21 16:00 by Olivia Brooke

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Might Have Just Made A Grand Entrance Into The Bitcoin Market

The CEO of Facebook might have just dropped subtle hints on his “Bitcoin holdings.” In a post that has left the cryptocurrency space confused, for the most part, Zuckerberg posted a pictu...
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Bitcoin 29/04/21 15:03 by Olivia Brooke

Crypto Space Goes Ballistic As Facebook’s Q1 Earnings Show No Bitcoin In Sight

If there’s one thing we know for sure, it’s the fact that the cryptocurrency community is extremely opinionated. It, therefore, comes as no surprise that crypto Twitter is blowing hot ove...
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Crypto 09/12/20 12:40 by Erie Maxwell

Facebook’s Crypto Project Could Face Another Lawsuit Over Copyright Infringement

Facebook has come under fire for copyright infringement after renaming its Libra cryptocurrency project last week. Libra was changed to Diem in a release by the Diem Association, formerly known as...
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Other 02/12/20 11:31 by Jide Idowu

Libra Rebrands to Diem; Plans to Launch Early 2021

Facebook-led Libra Association announced December 1, 2020, that it was changing its name to Diem. This is as it stays on course to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin in early 2021. This is coming afte...
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Bitcoin 15/11/20 17:43 by Olivia Brooke

Facebook And Google Soon To Enable Bitcoin Buying, Businessman Jason Yanowitz Asserts

It will come as no surprise that big technology and finance co-operations are considering cryptocurrencies behind the scenes. As we’ve seen before, many of these traditional fintech institutions ha...
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Altcoins 03/11/20 04:00 by Nick Chong

Facebook & Libra’s David Marcus Is Asking About Ethereum DeFi

Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) space has received a lot of attention in recent months. This sector of the crypto space has seen a rapid uptick in capital involved as the yields and ince...
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Crypto 21/09/20 09:09 by Brenda Ngari

Crypto Venture Capital Firm Blockchain Capital Becomes A Member Of Facebook’s Libra Association

Facebook-led Libra Association has added venture capital firm Blockchain Capital to its ranks. In a blog post on September 18, the Geneva-based consortium revealed that Blockchain Capital will be ...
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Bitcoin 18/08/20 21:07 by Erie Maxwell

Former Scottish Deal or No Deal Winner Lost Nearly $40,000 to Bitcoin Scammers

Back in 2007, Graeme Garioch won a hefty figure on the Scottish version of the game show Deal or No Deal. He planned on one day retiring and buying a house with the £101K prize, but he got caught up...
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Crypto 17/07/20 23:00 by Tony Spilotro

Not Just For Selfies: Twitter Crypto Scam And How Social Media Transfers Value

This week, the popular social platform Twitter was hacked to promote a scam where $120,000 in Bitcoin was stolen. Similar crypto scams have run rampant on the platform for some time. The ongoing issue...
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Crypto 03/07/20 22:00 by Samuel Wan

UK Regulators Shut Down Crypto Exchange Following £1.5m Scam

GPay Limited, which traded as XtraderFX (formerly CryptoPoint) has been shut down by UK authorities following investigations into its practices. The firm has been on the radar of the Financial Conduct...
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Crypto 26/06/20 12:37 by Adrian Klent

WhatsApp Payments Ban in Brazil Reiterates the Necessity for Crypto-Globalization

Facebook has been on a mission to diversify its social media platforms by either independently integrating payment features or merging its applications to enable financial transactions amongst users ...
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Bitcoin 02/06/20 12:14 by Ponvang Bulus

Asset Manager Timothy Peterson Reveals Why Bitcoin is Likely to Hit $1 Million by 2027

A cryptocurrency researcher Timothy Peterson says the price of Bitcoin is likely to hit $1 million by 2027. This is according to a research paper he published based on data collected to examine the l...
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Crypto 27/05/20 14:23 by Priyeshu Garg

Facebook’s Calibra Wallet Rebrands to Novi

Calibra, the digital wallet Facebook designed to be used with its cryptocurrency Libra, has now been renamed to “Novi.” The company established a new subsidiary, Novi Financial, that will be taske...
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Bitcoin 22/04/20 22:11 by Jeff Fawkes

Bitcoin is “a Pain in the Butt to Use” – David Gerard

The author of the book ‘Attack of the 50-Foot Blockchain’ David Gerard shares his opinions on crypto. People with strong positive expectations might receive a slight shock. The Journalist...
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Other 07/12/19 03:00 by Thomas Delahunty

Central Banks Issuing Digital Currency Could Be a Bluff; Here’s How

Going by recent headlines, it appears as though central banks around the world are planning to or in the process of creating their own digital currencies. The coins, by their disruptive nature, are bo...
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Other 19/11/19 15:13 by Brian Wallace

What Breaking Up Big Tech Would Mean for the Economy

In the past few years, some tech companies has gone to huge proportions, most of them many people use every single day. The biggest tech companies are so huge, they make up, as of 2018, up to 68% of ...
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Bitcoin 18/11/19 09:30 by Martin Young

Google Branches Into Banking, Is It a Threat to Bitcoin?

The big threat for Bitcoin at the moment is Google’s quantum computing prowess. A move by the search giant into banking however, could be a whole different matter for the entire crypto industry....
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