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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Consumers are moving to digital payments and cryptocurrency in droves, and it’s inevitable that more central banks will issue digital forms of currency, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said in a televised interview on Monday (Nov. And I think you’ll have more and more utility happen with cryptocurrencies,” he predicted. 23) Benzinga report.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2018, 14 European startups reached unicorn status, led by Roivant Sciences with its $7B valuation. Using CB Insights data, we identified all the Europe-based startups that have reached a $1B+ valuation in 2018. stake in the company in February 2018. The hardware startup released its first GC2 chip in 2018.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Well, that’s a popularity contest, and for bitcoin, popularity reigned as evidenced by the roughly $20,000 for which the cryptocurrency changed hands, a heady rise from the less-than $800 level that marked the beginning of 2017. Simply voting? Also, said UBS, bitcoin would have to be considered as “money or even a viable asset class.”.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Trading volumes on cryptocurrency exchanges have been doing extraordinarily well this week, hitting a new record volume of $68.3 Ethereum, the second-biggest cryptocurrency, which usually rises at the same time as bitcoin, also hit its highest level on Monday since 2018, with a $1,170 value, Reuters reported.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While that price apex was followed by a bubble burst and bitcoin fell to $3,122 in 2018, analysts and crypto fans predict this wave is different. million, CoinDesk reported, the first IPO to use cryptocurrency as an accepted currency. million of the funds, 89 percent of the total, were paid with the stablecoin tether.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Thailand’s Finance Ministry has officially removed the 7% value-added tax (VAT) on profits from cryptocurrency and digital token trades. In an effort to regulate the burgeoning sector, Thailand introduced a licensing framework for cryptocurrency exchanges and brokers in 2018 under the Digital Asset Business Emergency Decree.

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MARCH 8, 2020

After Paymium loaned BitSpread 1,000 Bitcoin in 2014, a dispute erupted sometime before 2018. In 2017, Bitcoin hard forked, creating Bitcoin Cash, a new cryptocurrency. whether courts allow some cryptocurrencies to constitute securities. The result of the ruling could lead to more activity in the French bitcoin market.

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Clearly Payments

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Cryptocurrency and BNPL : Cryptocurrency use in payments is projected to grow to $250 billion by 2030. Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services also surged, with a 400% increase in usage since 2018. Cryptocurrencies What It Is : Digital or virtual currencies that use cryptography for security, enabling decentralized transactions.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

PayPal has announced that it is jumping into the wild world of cryptocurrency , making it possible for wallet holders to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash and litecoin in their PayPal accounts. PayPal isn’t the first big name in tech to jump on the crypto bandwagon.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

From gaming to healthcare to pizza delivery, US-based startups which reached unicorn status in 2018 represent a diverse range of industries. Silicon Valley produced plenty of $1B+ companies in 2018, but other parts of the country also had a strong showing. Check out our real-time Unicorn Tracker for a full list of $1B+ companies).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2023, the value received by illicit cryptocurrency addresses amounted to US$24.2 Most of this total came from cryptocurrency services that are sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or are located in sanctioned jurisdictions. and 54.3%, respectively.

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MARCH 13, 2025

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 13th, 2025, Chainwire Bybit , the worlds second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, recently celebrated the second anniversary of the Bybit Card, a digital native solution for the borderless crypto community, at an event at Bybit’s Dubai headquarters on Mar. Since its launch in Sep.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Square said that cryptocurrency aligns with the company’s purpose in that it empowers people worldwide to participate in a global monetary system. The company introduced bitcoin trading in 2018 with Cash App, and the following year launched the independent Square Crypto.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

The government of Venezuela has ended the Petro (PTR) cryptocurrency, founded in 2018 to support the nation’s currency due to an overwhelming economic crisis.

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MARCH 4, 2020

India's 2018 ban on banks servicing traders and businesses dealing with cryptocurrencies has been overturned by the country's Supreme Court, opening the door for bitcoin and Facebook’s Libra.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

PayPal is looking at acquisition possibilities for cryptocurrency companies, including bitcoin custodian BitGo , a report from Bloomberg says. million in 2018 and was valued at $170 million, according to PitchBook. The move would help PayPal boost its embrace of digital coins. PayPal might also go with another target to purchase.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The price of the cryptocurrency was $16,301.03 It wasn’t immediately known why the cryptocurrency increased in price, but some observers have suggested a connection with the U.S. In other news, the price of bitcoin exceeded the $16,000 price level on Thursday for the first time in nearly three years, CNBC reported. as of 7:17 p.m.

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MAY 1, 2024

Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance , the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been sentenced to four months in prison by U.S. sanctions, particularly with Iran, processing transactions valued at approximately US$898 million that violated sanctions between 2018 and 2022.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In 2018, it established the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and its independent regulator the Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA). Crypto boom Following the ban on crypto mining activities in China in 2021, Kazakhstan experienced an influx of cryptocurrency miners.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The RBI does acknowledge how popular cryptocurrency has become, although Indian regulators and the local government are still apprehensive and skeptical, according to Cointelegraph. A booklet on payments released by the RBI Monday (Jan. Since then, the number of exchanges has grown in the country.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The cost of crimes involving bitcoin and cryptocurrency hit $4.3 In 2017 and 2018, by comparison, the various schemes and fraudulent activity was $3 billion combined. However, upon purchasing the cryptocurrency from PlusToken, users would eventually find that the sites didn’t work and they couldn’t get their money out.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In other news, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) member Hester Peirce expressed hope that securities regulations concerning cryptocurrencies will speed up to match the speed of financial technology innovation. The exchange has increased regulatory rules over the past two years, requiring customers to reveal their identities in 2018.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blockchain and digital currency investment firm Pantera Capital said in a report that after analyzing numbers from the cryptocurrency exchange iBit, it appears that PayPal and Cash App have bought almost 100 percent of all newly-issued bitcoins. PayPal is the biggest tech firm to accelerate its move into the cryptocurrency space.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Byrne is a big backer of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Still, shares are off more than 65 percent since the start of 2018. For the first three quarters of 2018, it lost around $39 million. Overstock has a net loss of $163 million for the first three quarters of 2018, reported CNBC. “I security tokens).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Silicon Valley cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has become the first pure-play crypto startup to earn approval as a Visa principal member, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday (Feb. The debit card allows users to spend cryptocurrency as cash anywhere Visa is accepted. Shift shuttered in early 2019.

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JULY 17, 2024

The rapid ascent of cryptocurrency has ushered in a new era of financial innovation, but it has also created novel challenges in combating financial crime. These services blend the cryptocurrencies of many users together, making it difficult to trace the origin of funds. Usage of mixers peaked in 2022, with over US$1.5

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MARCH 16, 2020

Intercontinental Exchange, the parent firm of Bakkt, had first made it known in the summer of 2018 that Starbucks was eyeing the retail use of digital currency payments. On another note, a staffer at China’s Baidu has gone to jail for mining cryptocurrency on approximately 200 servers of the company, Cointelegraph reported.

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MAY 18, 2020

billion in fiscal year 2018. The coronavirus pandemic has sparked a more general interest in cryptocurrency, signaled by JPMorgan’s providing services to U.S. Keychain Core was rolled out last September, earlier than expected, as reports suggested that kind of technology wouldn’t be available for another few years.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Among plenty of emerging use cases, the technology aims to create a new and improved payments system for the world — one that’s secure, transparent, decentralized, fast, and uses cryptocurrencies (types of digital cash) as a means of exchange. But the value of most cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, fluctuates on a daily basis.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 22, 2020

Entrepreneurs have pitched applications for blockchain technology ranging from supply chain tracking to financial asset settlement, but the only one that has found adoption at any significant scale so far is cryptocurrency creation and trading. The companies raised $400M and $321M, respectively, both contributing to 2018’s spike.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 6th, 2025, Chainwire Bybit , the worlds second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, becomes the first platform to include USDtb , a blockchain-based USD stablecoin created and managed by Ethena Labs, on its Spot exchange.

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MAY 8, 2020

Samsung Pay has increasingly grown in popularity, processing more than one billion transactions , almost double compared to 2018. It was also the first platform to introduce a cashback service for online shopping and recently added support for Swipe’s cryptocurrency Visa cards. has seen slow adoption compared to other regions.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

that serves cryptocurrency businesses, multiple reports indicated on Monday (Feb. Businesses managing cryptocurrencies have had a tough time maintaining relationships with legacy banks because of the perception that bitcoin-type transactions are connected to criminal behavior.

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JANUARY 24, 2021

Cryptocurrency-related crime fell in 2020, according to a blog post from Chainalysis. Near 30 people in Kyodo, Japan have been charged for reportedly exchanging NEM cryptocurrency for other digital currencies, in spite of knowing the assets had been stolen, a report from The Mainichi says. In 2019, criminal activity constituted 2.1

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MAY 22, 2020

With new microchip tech by Cardano , cryptocurrency users would be able to access payment services without an internet connection. But it could also find a larger use worldwide by giving people without access to the internet the ability to use cryptocurrency — such as African farmers, only 2 percent of whom have smartphones.

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MARCH 29, 2019

It isn’t known if the partnership will include cryptocurrency or not, especially since the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, issued a statement saying it wouldn’t support the digital currency. Regardless of its position on cryptocurrency, the country is very pro-blockchain. “As

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APRIL 7, 2025

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