Pantera Raises Additional $5M for Its Bitcoin Fund, Bringing Total to $134M Cryptocurrency firm Pantera Capital has raised another $5 million for its bitcoin fund, bringing the total to $134 million, according to a form D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. ...
BITCOIN OVERTAKES PAYPAL MARKET CAP, SETS SIGHTS ON VISA, MASTERCARD, AND BIG BANKS NEXT. Ever since news broke that PayPal would be supporting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the future, the price per BTC and the asset’s overall market cap has ballooned. And w...
Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor said he will hold his company’s Bitcoin (BTC) for 100 years, and has no intention of selling it. On Aug. 11, the business intelligence firm announced it had purchased 21,454 BTC for $250 million. This investment is now worth more than $278 mi...
Japanese messaging giant Line developing CBDC platform. The platform would aid central banks in Asia with developing a central bank digital currency. Line, a Tokyo-based subsidiary of the South Korean internet search engine company Naver, is building a platform for developing central bank...
Crypto Cruise Ship, ‘Satoshi’. Ocean Builders, a company that builds “seapods” or floating homes for seasteaders, has unveiled “The Crypto Cruise Ship” called Satoshi. It is being prepared to set sail from the Mediterranean and will anchor in the Gulf of Pana...
Another payment service platform joins RippleNet: Working with SCB via RippleNet Ripple blockchain monster has inked a partnership deal with another promising payments operator – Guavapay. It is based in the UK and has an e-Money license obtained from the local regulator FCA. ...
Australian developers aims to bring Cardano payments to Shopify stores. Shopify stores could soon allow users to pay for products with Cardano tokens with a new app that removes any payment intermediaries. An Australian developer has almost completed work on a Cardano (ADA) app tha...
OpenBazaar received a temporary lifeline, but they aren’t out of the woods yet. On September 25, OpenBazaar announced that their platform would likely shut down due to financial difficulties, stating that user growth and adoption had stalled. According to a tweet published...
VeChain Transforming the Automotive Ecosystem VeChain (VET), the distributed ledger technology (DLT) network that claims to be dedicated to formulating solutions to real-world problems with blockchain technology, has rolled out an innovative solution for the automotive industry. Per source...
Global Bitcoin ATM installations hit 10,000 today, seven years after the first machine debuted. Their numbers have risen by an average of 167%, year-on-year, according to data from Norwegian financial services company AksjeBloggen. In fact, 2020 has far surpassed previous years. In t...