The Love-hate Relationship Between Cryptocurrencies And Regulators
The crypto-space is no strangers to sneers and jabs, which come in the form of blowback from certain governments and warm embraces from others. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have long been criticized, particularly by bankers all around the world. Jean Claude Trichet, a French economist, is the most recent to do so. Trichet, who was […]
Official Marvel NFTs Will Be Accessible On The VeVe Marketplace By 2022, Says Marvel
Spiderman, WolverineIron Man, and Captain America are some of Marvel’s well-known featured characters Official nonfungible tokens and digital superhero comics from Marvel will soon be available on the VeVe virtual marketplace. Marvel Entertainment announced on Thursday that it had teamed up with Orbis Blockchain Technologies to launch NFTs, and digital collectibles on the VeVe marketplace […]
21Shares partners with SIX Swiss Exchange to Launch World’s First Solana ETP
21Shares is Launching World’s First Solana ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange. The ETP will track the performance of Solana’s native SOL token. The world’s first Solana exchange-traded vehicle is being launched by 21Shares, a Swiss exchange-traded product (ETP). The vehicle, which will trade under the symbol “ASOL,” will begin trading on Tuesday. The Solana ETP […]
Blockchain Isn’t Fit For CBDC Says Swiss National Bank Economist
The impact of blockchain deployment on central bank digital currencies is still being debated by economists throughout the world. According to an economist at Switzerland’s central bank, blockchain , the underlying technology of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), is not the best option for a central bank digital currency. According to the German-language Swiss newspaper […]
Despite the crypto ban, a Nigerian secondary school says it will accept crypto for payments
Although cryptocurrency-related activities have been banned in Nigeria, A secondary school in the country says it is ready to accept crypto as a form of payment.” A private secondary school near Kano, Nigeria, has declared it will accept cryptocurrency payments for school fees, despite the country’s central bank prohibiting financial institutions from providing services to crypto exchanges. The director of the New Oxford Science Academy in the Kano suburb of Chiranchi, according to a Thursday report from local news site Kano Focus, will allow students to pay tuition costs in cryptocurrency. Sabi’u Musa Haruna, who began working at the institution in 2017, has pushed the Nigerian government to embrace and regulate cryptocurrency, but he appears to be moving ahead with this current action. “We’ve decided to accept cryptocurrency as school fees because the world today is tilting towards the system,” said Haruna. “We believe one day digital money […]