Bilbao, the largest city in northern Spain, has launched a €150,000 (around $171,000) tender to develop a blockchain for public services, Bilbao’s municipal authorities announced Monday, Nov. 12. Officials…
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Japan: Queries About Cryptocurrencies Steadily Decline, Financial Regulator Reveals
The number of enquiries about cryptocurrencies from Japanese investors has declined in the third quarter of 2018, according to a report published by Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) Friday,…
Ohio Congressman Wants to Allow ICOs to ‘Sidestep’ Securities Laws
Ohio Congressman Warren Davidson plans to introduce a bill that would allow Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) to “sidestep” U.S. securities laws, according to a report from Washington Examiner Nov….
European Central Bank Exec Calls Bitcoin the ‘Evil Spawn of the Financial Crisis’
Executive Board member of the European Central Bank (ECB) Benoit Coeure considers Bitcoin (BTC) to be the “evil spawn of the [2008] financial crisis,” Bloomberg reports Nov. 15. Coeure…
Canada, UK, Singapore Central Banks: CBDCs Would Reduce Risks in Cross-Border Payments
Central bank digital currencies (CDBCs) can help improve counterparty credit risk for cross-border interbank payments and settlements, according to a new in-depth report jointly published by the central banks…
Azerbaijan: Central Bank Doesn’t Plan to Issue Its Own Cryptocurrency
The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) does not plan to issue a state-backed cryptocurrency because of the “great risks,” English-language Azerbaijani news outlet AzerNews reported Nov. 15. Alim Guliyev,…
‘Instant Money Transfers With Low Fees’: New Platform is Challenging Better-Known Rivals
A digital money platform is challenging rivals by offering instant transfers from a greater number of cryptocurrencies, fiat currencies, and commodities – all with the ambition of reducing the…
Spanish Telecoms Operator Partners With IBM to Manage International Calls With Blockchain
IBM and major Spanish telecommunications firm Telefónica have partnered to apply blockchain technology to managing international mobile phone call traffic, per a press release shred with Cointelegraph Nov. 14….
BTCC Mint Discontinued Physical Bitcoins Go for Record Prices
Bobby Lee, the co-founder of BTCC which was once the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform, recently announced on his twitter page the sale of physical Bitcoins in China at…
Cleveland’s Great Lakes Science Center Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments
The Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) is now accepting bitcoin in various transactions. According to a recent news story from a Cleveland-based newspaper, the local Great Lakes Science Center…
