The Bank of England (BoE) and Her Majesty’s Treasury (HM Treasury) have jointly created a task force for the UK’s proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC) project. Taskforce to Explore Modalities for UK’s CBDC In a press release published on Monday (April 19, 2021), the BoE and the HM Treasury instituted a Taskforce that would be in charge of research […]

U.K.-based crypto exchange TeraBlock announced the completion of a funding round which would reportedly provide an on-ramp for new crypto users. In an announcement today, TeraBlock said it had secured $2.4 million in funding from major investors including AU21 Capital, Blockchain.com, Blocksync Ventures, BTX Capital, CryptoDormFund, and others. The platform was reportedly developed with newbies in mind, providing automation tools […]

The Texas Securities Commissioner has issued an emergency cease and desist order against two cryptocurrency trading schemes and their principles: one is London-based Bitles Limited and the other is Texas-operated C3 Data Services, along with their principles, Janis Lacis and Edward Carter, respectively. The order alleged that Bitles and Lacis were operating an investment scheme, claiming that it was investing […]

FLT is the latest Bitcoin-backed loyalty reward token to launch; FLT tokens are backed by BSV and will be redeemable for BSV beginning in six months. Every week, 50% of FloatSV trading fees are sent to the FLT loyalty wallet–the wallet that FLT is backed by and will be redeemable through in the future. “We’ve had a few thousand users […]

Moving Bitcoin apps into the physical world: The Bitcoin Bridge talks IoT with Dr. Walter Wang Dr. Walter Wang is all about “tangible” applications that live on the Bitcoin blockchain. We mean that literally—as an IoT researcher and entrepreneur, he wants to see real-world devices interacting with blockchain data to improve our lives. Find out some of the ways he […]

Dogecoin has hitched a ride to the red planet with the Perseverance rover and for the first time has today stepped on Mars. In an historic moment, Dogecoin is seen watching Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter completing the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. Dogecoin was laid down as meme pictured above while Ingenuity flew 10 meters in the air […]

The benefit of cryptocurrency being more publicly visible than ever before is that there are more companies that are hopping on the train and embracing cryptocurrency. This includes companies like Tesla that now accepts Bitcoin as a form of payment and various investment firms adding cryptocurrency to their portfolios. The latest of these comes from the Iconic TIME Magazine that […]

The United States financial market regulator has moved against binary options company, Spot Option and its two operators, Malhaz Pinhas Patarkazishvili (Pini Peter) and Ran Amiran for running illegal operations in the country and deceiving investors. The lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a Nevada court on April 16 alleged that Spot Option, Ltd., now known […]