Austria News

From Cointelegraph auf Deutsch: Germany announces additional crypto regulations, Switzerland adds a new blockchain hub and Austrian scammers use fake celebrity ...

This week from Cointelegraph auf Deutsch: German authorities’ opinion on Facebook’s Libra and Swiss crypto banks getting FINMA licenses.

From CT auf Deutsch: a highly active BaFin and a bankruptcy filing from an Austrian crypto ATM start-up lead the week’s news from the German-speaking world.

Major Austrian telecom operator A1 has started accepting six cryptos as payment in select shops in Austria.

Online survey by ING shows Austrians are the most skeptical towards cryptocurrency.

Youniqx Identity AG, a subsidiary of the Austrian State Printing House, has developed a cryptocurrency hardware wallet.

Austria's Graz to use DLT-enabled energy trading platform by Power Ledger in move toward zero-carbon energy.

Austrian steel trading company Alukönigstahl is working on a blockchain-based steel trading data system.

The Austrian Post releases a line of 150,000 “crypto stamps,” a set containing a crypto collectible authenticator and a stamp that can be used for actual mail.

Austria-based fiber supplier Lenzing Group plans to apply blockchain to track its fiber supply and to “green up the textile industry.”

We sat down with Ulrike Huemer, the CIO of Austria’s capital city Vienna, to talk blockchain and to elaborate on its role as part of the Smart City initiative.

Global exchange website Currency.com has announced that it will be offering a tokenized form of Belarussian government bonds.

Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International has announced it will pilot R3’s Corda-powered Marco Polo blockchain network for trade finance.

The Ministry of Finance in Austria is considering the establishment of a regulatory sandbox for the fintech industry.

Viennese crypto and fintech firm Bitpanda has received a payment service provider license from Austria’s financial regulator in accordance with EU-wide rules.