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 addition, the HSBC bank prohibits its customers from buying Microstrategy shares because…
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Banks / Institutions US Bank Morgan Stanley develops its Bitcoin offer The American bank Morgan Stanley announced last Thursday that some of these funds could begin to gain exposure to Bitcoin in the form of futures contracts as well as through Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust.Twelve funds are involved and the level of exposure could rise to…
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Paypal allows payment by cryptoassets Paypal officially launches its cryptoasset payment service in the United States. Using the Paypal wallet, customers will have the choice to pay any merchant accepting it either in traditional currencies or in cryptoactives, the latter being automatically converted into dollars. Merchants will not receive cryptoassets but the final currency directly….
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Morgan Stanley announces the launch of a Bitcoin-based fund Morgan Stanley has announced to its 16,000 advisors in the Wealth Management unit that they will begin offering access to a Bitcoin-based fund to their clients.These advisors manage over $4 trillion belonging to their clients.According to sources, the funds would be operated by NYDIG or Galaxy…
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Ethereum’s problems soon solved? Ethereum’s scalability problems could soon be a thing of the past.A new system, Optimism, is expected to emerge from its testing phase in the coming weeks. This system implements a technology called Rollups, a Layer 2 solution, which will allow to execute transactions inside a smart contract while keeping the same…
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EIP 1559 approved EIP 1559 has been approved for the hard-fork London scheduled for July on Ethereum.It is estimated that this evolution of the fee model on Ethereum will reduce current transaction costs by approximately 75% and drastically reduce volatility. Go further > Decentralization of Binance Smart Chain at the heart of the debate An…
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