AZ Alkmaar is set to become the first club team in the Netherlands to pay its player salaries in Bitcoin. Sport and crypto continue to see increased intersection as virtual currency businesses try to leverage the former’s fanbase to grow their business interests. AZ Partners with Bitcoin Meester On Thursday (July 1, 2021), Eredivisie side AZ Alkmaar announced a partnership […]

The SoftBank-backed travel booking platform GetYourGuide has announced its expansion to the United States, after selling more than 45 million tours across 170 countries. It’s launching with a Dogecoin (DOGE) payment option. According to a press release«, GetYourGuide’s expansion to the United States will allow travelers in the country to “maximize each trip with awide selection of experiences vetted by […]

THORSwap has announced via Twitter on June 28, that THORChain synthetics is now live on its testnet. The team says users will be able to mint, redeem and swap regular tokens for synthetic assets, transfer Synths to THORChain wallets, and more. THORChain Synthetics Launched Building on its previous partnership with Synthetix, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that makes it possible […]

Nigerian artists are now increasing their net worth by leveraging the art world’s lucrative pivot to non-fungible tokens (NFT). According to reports, this move to NFTs is happening despite the Nigerian central bank’s renewed anti-crypto stance. NFT Bubble Concerns As a recent CNN report explains, growing interest in NFTs from Nigerian artists comes alongside warnings of a potential downturn in […]

Recently, former Goldman Sachs executive Raoul Pal talked about a crypto project that describes itself as “the world’s first frictionless blockchain with web speed and internet scale.” The Internet Computer ($ICP) “extends the functionality of the public Internet so that it can host backend software, transforming it into a global compute platform.” Using the Internet Computer, “developers can create websites, enterprise […]

Billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen has revealed he is now taking a deep dive into the cryptocurrency and said he is “fully converted” and doesn’t plan on missing the space’s progress in the future. During an interview, as first reported by Bitcoin.com, Cohen shared his views on the nascent space and said he has an “old saying at the […]

When hundreds of millions of dollars are changing hands for the digital deeds to a new generation of computer created art, you can bet that the mainstream media’s ears are pricking up.  However, the use of Non-Fungible Token (NFTs) in the digital art arena has somewhat overshadowed the amazing potential of this tokenised technology. From fractional land ownership to fragile […]

At a time in which the price of bitcoin has been moving sideways a lot of large-cap altcoins have been steadily dropping, a little-known altcoin called Amp (AMP) has surged over 200% outperforming the rest of the market. As first reported by Daily Hodl, AMP is a collateral-as-a-service token that is designed to power instant, secure transactions. It “insures the […]

The founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, has revealed he believes Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) should start accepting ADA payments, as it is one of the greenest cryptocurrencies on the space, if it cares about environmental sustainability. In an interview with Lex Fridman, first reported on by CryptoPotato, Hoskinson highlighted several benefits of the cryptocurrency. Cardano’s ADA uses a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus […]