Forty-six Tifon gas stations across Croatia have reportedly started accepting cryptocurrency payments. Using payment processor Paycek, customers can pay with a number of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ether. Tifon gas stations in Croatia started accepting cryptocurrency payments at the beginning of February. There are currently 46 Tifon gas stations in the country. Paycek, a service […]

By Jordan Sitkin Between 4:25am and 9:31am PST on Friday, January 29, api.coinbase.com had an outage. During this time, many users experienced errors while attempting to use the Coinbase app and crypto buying, selling and trading features were intermittently available. Access to trading on pro.coinbase.com was unaffected. This post will detail the outage, explain what caused […]

“Those willing to accept bills and other forms of deferred settlement demonstrate to us that money is fundamentally hierarchical. If a merchant demanded gold payment upfront for the delivery of goods, it was his right to do so. But if another merchant accepted a bill that represented a promise to pay gold later, his willingness […]

KardiaChain, a hybrid blockchain solution for enterprises and government, announced on Twitter that they would be partnering up with NEM – a smart asset management blockchain. “KardiaChain Forms Partnership with @NEMofficial – a 2015-founded blockchain veteran with many recent collaborations with DeFi projects – to Expand Ecosystem for KAI Membership Dapp including users from the […]

Dante Disparte, Executive Vice President of the Diem Association spoke to Raoul Pal in an interview on Real Vision, which was released a short time ago.  Diem, is the re-branded Facebook project formerly known as ‘Libra’. The organisation is made up of 27 members, which include Facebook itself, and its digital wallet provider Novi. The other […]

As senators call for an end to the federal prohibition of marijuana, how would it affect the crypto-cannabis connection that’s arisen in the weed industry’s banking blindspot? The recent vow by United States Senate leader Chuck Schumer to end federal prohibition of cannabis could have knock-on effects for Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider cryptocurrency industry. […]

A bumper payout for identifying a critical bug in a smart contract caused increased confidence in the ArmorFi platform and a 100%+ token pump. A whitehat hacker has seen what was already one of the largest smart contract-related bug bounties ever awarded more than double, after the ARMOR token price pumped following the announcement of […]

Nigeria’s central bank has prohibited commercial banks from providing account services to crypto exchanges. The Central Bank of Nigeria has placed a ban on all regulated financial institutions from providing services to crypto exchanges in the country. The prohibition was contained in a circular issued by the CBN on Friday. According to the central bank’s […]

Was stock trading app Robinhood the villain in the GameStop saga? “In a decentralized trading market, no one would have that power.” Was last week’s Reddit versus Wall Street stand-off really the “beginning of the end for centralized finance,” as Gemini founder Tyler Winklevoss described it? Or was it just a one-time instance of individuals […]

Popular Nigerian hip hop artist Davido has sparked off a buzz about crypto assets after tweeting about his intention to start a bitcoin trading company. With the short tweet, Davido becomes the latest African celebrity to express interest in starting a crypto business. Senegalese singer Akon is another prominent African personality to embrace crypto assets. […]