DeCenter – Blockchain and Bitcoin

2023-05-07 13:01:41 Liechtenstein plans to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender — according to the plan, it will be possible to use BTC to pay for goods and services in both public and private institutions in the country, as well as to make Bitcoin deposits in banks.

The government is also considering the possibility of investing state funds in BTC.

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2023-05-05 14:29:17 Binance Will List FLOKI (FLOKI) and Pepe (PEPE) in the Innovation Zone.

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2023-05-03 13:10:19 Bhutan’s DHI and Bitdeer to raise $500M to develop sustainable mining operations

Nasdaq-listed mining company Bitdeer Technologies Group and Bhutan’s sovereign investment arm Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) have teamed up to create eco-friendly and carbon-free digital asset mining operations in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, Bitdeer and DHI said they would launch the partnership by creating a closed-end fund with an approximate value of $500 million. The firms aim to start their fundraising efforts at the end of May to attract investments from around the world.

The partnership is expected to create employment opportunities in various fields, including engineering, project management, and supervisory and supportive roles. Moreover, it is expected to stimulate economic growth and generate revenue in foreign currency for the local community and the country.

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2023-05-02 16:20:07 Coinbase International Exchange launches amid SEC crypto crackdown in the US

As the cryptocurrency industry faces regulatory challenges in the United States, public crypto exchange Coinbase is moving forward with a global derivatives platform.

On May 2, Coinbase announced the launch of the Coinbase International Exchange (CIE), a new institutional platform designed for crypto derivatives trading.

Coinbase stressed that direct access trading on CIE is available to institutional clients via API in eligible, non-U.S. jurisdictions. “These products are not available to retail customers at this time,” Coinbase added.

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2023-05-02 09:51:48 Biggest US bank failures in history

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2023-05-01 08:58:18 Jack Dorsey’s nano Bitcoin mining chip heads to prototype

Block, a financial services and technology company owned by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced it has completed the prototype design of its new five-nanometre (5nm) Bitcoin mining chip — which it claims is key to decentralizing the supply of Bitcoin mining rigs.

According to a blog post published on April 28, Block explained that developing Bitcoin mining ASIC rigs is both financially and technically challenging. The result of this has been “the excessive concentration of custom bitcoin mining silicon” in the hands of a select few companies. Block deems this centralization harmful to both miners and the Bitcoin network as a whole.

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2023-04-29 09:43:01 OpenAI closes $300M share sale at $27B-29B valuation

OpenAI, the startup behind the widely used conversational AI model ChatGPT, has picked up new backers, TechCrunch has learned.

VC firms including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global picking up new shares, according to documents seen by TechCrunch. A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing. Altogether the VCs have put in just over $300 million at a valuation of $27 billion – $29 billion.

This is separate to a big investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year, a person familiar with the development told TechCrunch, which closed in January. The size of Microsoft’s investment is believed to be around $10 billion, a figure we confirmed with our source.

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2023-04-27 09:28:41 ‌‎ One crypto wallet launched 114 dodgy memecoins in two months

According to research from blockchain sleuths ZachXBT, one address, in particular, has launched “114 memecoin scams” in the past 45 days alone.

In an April 26 Twitter thread, ZachXBT tracked the movements of the wallet address 0x739c58807B99Cb274f6FD96B10194202b8EEfB47, noting that “each time stolen funds from the scam are sent to the exact same deposit address.”

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2023-04-26 19:02:49 Raiffeisenlandesbank to offer crypto investment services

Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien (RLB NÖ-Wien), an Austrian cooperative banking company founded in 1900, is preparing to launch crypto investment services in collaboration with the Austrian crypto firm Bitpanda.

According to a joint announcement on April 26, RLB NÖ-Wien plans to provide its customers with a broad range of cryptocurrencies through Bitpanda’s software as a service (SaaS) offering. Crypto investment will be featured alongside investment services for stocks, exchange-traded funds, precious metals and commodities.

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2023-04-26 16:07:53 Circle launches cross-chain USDC transfer protocol for Ethereum, Avalanche

Circle, the creator of US Dollar Coin USDC, has launched a mainnet protocol that lets users transfer USDC between Ethereum and Avalanche, according to an April 26 announcement.

Previously, Avalanche users who held USDC on Ethereum had to deposit their coins with a Circle partner or use a third-party bridge to transfer their USDC from one network to the other. The new Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) protocol appears to do away with this need for USDC bridges.

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