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Banks and Institutions El Salvador's president wants to make Bitcoin a legal tender The president of El Salvador has announced plans to submit a law to parliament to grant Bitcoin legal tender status in his country. Among the various reasons, Nayib Bukele wants to...

A major Ripple investor files a lawsuit against them Tetragon, the lead investor in Ripple's Series C, is filing a complaint against the company.The complaint follows recent actions by the SEC, the U.S. regulator, which accuses Ripple of selling financial securities...

Banks and Institutions The European Commission accelerates The European Commission is speeding up its digital wallet project for European Union citizens. It would be doubled with an electronic identity and would allow, in addition to payment means, to store digital...

Banks and Institutions The Ministry of the Interior produces a white paper on Blockchain The Ministry of the Interior in France produces a white paper "Blockchain technology, a revolution for identification." The paper focuses on the benefits of using this technology...

Banks and Institutions Elon Musk multiplies contradictions on Bitcoin Elon Musk is multiplying the contradictions on Bitcoin. Indeed, after Tesla announced on May 13 that it would no longer sell vehicles in exchange for Bitcoin, citing environmental concerns, the...

Banks and Institutions ICBC launches its digital yuan services Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, one of the world's largest banks in terms of funds under management, is launching its digital yuan services. Users now have the ability to deposit and withdraw...

Banks and Institutions 100 million bonds issued on Ethereum The European Investment Bank, a public body under the ECB, is issuing 100 million bonds on the Ethereum blockchain. Société Générale, Goldman Sachs, and Banco Santander will oversee the issue, which matures...

Banks / Institutions Turkey bans cryptocurrencies for any means of payment A new law in Turkey goes into effect as of April 30. The law bans the use of cryptocurrencies for any payment of goods and services. Two crypto asset sales sites have already gone bankrupt,...

Banks / Institutions China now optimistic about Bitcoin, towards a new price surge? China is changing its tune on Bitcoin. While the authorities had always been suspicious, even hostile towards the market, a governor of the Chinese central bank says that Bitcoin is an...

Banks / Institutions MicroStrategy will pay its board of directors in bitcoins! Microstrategy is the American company with the largest portfolio in bitcoins at the moment (over 4 billion dollars). It has just decided to pay its board of directors in bitcoins. In...