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The Future is Near: The First-Ever Sports Team Starts Paying Salaries in Bitcoin

Nov 18, 2021 at 11:00 // News A professional baseball team from Australia, Perth Heat, announced on November 17 that they will remunerate their players and employees using bitcoin. To introduce the new financial system, the club has already hired a chief Bitcoin officer and partnered with a cryptocurrency platform. The flagship coin is also adopted as a means of payment for sponsorships, fan merchandise, etc. According to the ABC news outlet, players will be able to choose the means of payment they want. Switching to Bitcoin will not be

Weekly Cryptocurrency Market Analysis: Ethereum Renews Its Historical High, While Dogelon Mars Shows the Biggest Uptrend

Nov 02, 2021 at 10:33 // News Over the past 7 days, the cryptocurrency market has remained generally bullish. While Bitcoin seems to have stalled at its recent high, Ethereum has renewed its historical maximum. However, none of the flagship cryptocurrencies posted significant gains this week, so they were left out of the rating of the best weekly performers, composed by CoinIdol, a world blockchain news outlet. Here is how it looks from today's perspective. Dogelon Mars Dogelon Mars (ELON) seems to be the best performer among cryptocurrencies that have

Cryptocurrency Exchanges Seek Employees to Solve Regulatory Issues

Sep 25, 2021 at 11:11 // News Many cryptocurrency exchanges have had problems with financial regulators in different countries. Some of them have had to shut down or move their operations to other countries. Others have been forced to look for ways to deal with supervisors and improve compliance. In 2021, cryptocurrency exchange Binance had numerous issues with regulators in different countries. As reported by CoinIdol, a world blockchain news outlet, it was charged and sanctioned by the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) for allegedly conducting illegal business. Later, the

JP Morgan and Its Bitcoin Trading Service to Face Stiff Competition from Cryptocurrency Exchanges

Aug 10, 2021 at 10:28 // News JP Morgan is finally offering bitcoin investment options to its customers after years of aversion to crypto investing, and is reportedly promoting its bitcoin product to its retail customers. However, the bank should be prepared for competition from cryptocurrency exchanges and similar banks. Sceptic becomes a believer After JP Morgan Chase discovered the potential of cryptocurrencies, the bank added Bitcoin to the list of assets its clients can invest in. Everything JP Morgan is doing now in regards to Bitcoin has proven to

Battle of Elrond Launches on Samsung Galaxy Store

The Battle of Elrond, a blockchain-based game from Elrond Network, is now available on Samsung dApp store to give users of the Samsung Galaxy and Note, the opportunity to interact with a medieval multiplayer 5v5 PVP arena. The development, according to the announcement today, is a product of a collaboration between Samsung and Elrond. The game will support a blockchain-based in-game economy integrated by the Samsung Blockchain Wallet and new players will receive $ERD, Elrond’s native token, as a welcome bonus for 5 PvP games.  The move was first revealed

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum is DeFi Chain as Much as Bitcoin is Digital Gold

Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin has recently asserted that aside from the numerous potential applications of Ethereum in various areas, its use as a cryptocurrency, for settlements, cannot be overlooked. This is coming after Ryan Sean Adams, the founder of Mythos Capital, shared how Bitcoin Maximalists are trolling him about how pointless Ethereum is. Got Maximalists trolling me about how pointless Ethereum is meanwhile I just sent a crypto backed stablecoin in a private transaction on the Ethereum mainnet peer-to-peer w/o a bank Keep trolling We’ll keep building the bankless future