While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ‘warned El Salvador’ against boosting the government’s involvement with Bitcoin (BTC), the Central American country plans to open a second “Bitcoin Embassy” in Texas after establishing its first one in Lugano, Switzerland. According to a Twitter post from Milena Mayorga, El Salvador’s Ambassador to
Near the conclusion of last year, inflation in the United States began to moderate. As the CPI data has been refined over the previous several months, this tendency has been confirmed once again. The 7.1% inflation rate recorded in November was below market forecasts. This trend continued in December when
Bakkt, a platform for managing digital assets, has now stated it would discontinue its consumer app in favor of interacting directly with companies to provide them “with crypto and loyalty experiences for their customers through SaaS and API solutions.” On March 16th, there will be a final shutdown of the
With its latest album “ASSEMBLE,” tripleS, a K-pop girl group with 24 members, has gained popularity. The single “Rising,” which debuted as an EP album on February 13th, is one of the eight songs on the album. A few of tripleS’ female stars adorn each album release due to the
Following a severe cash flow shortfall in the month of November, Iris Energy said on Monday that their hash rate had returned to levels seen before the FTX incident. The Bitcoin mining company plans to boost its internal mining capacity from 2.0 EH/s to 5.5 EH/s during the next several
Visa, a leader in digital payments, has announced a collaboration with the cryptocurrency payments app Wirex, allowing the latter to issue cryptocurrency debit cards to customers in more than 40 countries. Today, the two corporations issued a statement formalizing their relationship, marking the beginning of a long-term, worldwide alliance between
With his guilty plea to commodities fraud in a New York district court. Eddy Alexandre, the apparent CEO of cryptocurrency trading platform EminiFX, agreed to reimburse victims of his “cryptocurrency investment scam” to the tune of millions. On February 10th, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported that Alexandre pleaded
The 2009 Bitcoin prediction of Hal Finney, popularly Bitcoin’s first recipient, is now re-asserted by Adam Back, Founder and CEO of Blockstream, on Twitter. As per his prediction in the tweet thread, in the next 9 years, the price of one Bitcoin (BTC) might ramp up to $10 million. early
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the partially recognized republic in northeastern Georgia said in a news release that police in Abkhazia are conducting daily searches to detect mining operations. That have been illegally linked to the power grid and examine previously shut down crypto farms. To prevent the import of
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a final report on the economy of El Salvador on February 10, 2023. From January 30th to February 8th, the IMF conducted an Article IV consultation with the government of El Salvador. The IMF warns that “risks should be addressed” as it relates to
