Belarus’ largest bank, Belarusbank, is considering setting up a cryptocurrency exchange, focusing on digitization in 2019.
Bitcoin Adoption News
Bitcoin’s mainstream adoption is an important part of the development of the cryptocurrency industry. There are a lot of blockchain-related projects that have aims to provide Bitcoin and cryptocurrency education and popularize their use. The mass adoption of Bitcoin is in its early stages and is not being performed widely, yet. The use of Bitcoin is not well-established reputationally and is hard to perform for a regular person to become interested in it. There were numerous attempts to quantify the adoption rate of Bitcoin, but they were extremely complicated due to Bitcoin’s privacy and lack of information about individual accounts. The mass adoption of Bitcoin is growing because of the increasing use of cryptocurrency in businesses. The rising amount of enterprises, individuals and manufacturers that accept Bitcoin as a means of payment positively affects its adoption by ordinary customers and households.
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North Korea may have unsuccessfully set up a BTC mining operation last year, and Yahoo Finance brings crypto trading more mainstream.
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Inflation is driving these nations to crypto, but there won’t be hyperbitcoinization as long as reserve currencies remain strong.
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Bitcoin may be the most popular crypto for purchases, but Bitcoin Cash and Dash offer merchants efficiency.
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Bitcoin is the most used cryptocurrency as money, but its rivals are more usable.
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The South Korean government is drafting major new industry classification standards for the blockchain industry.
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The week saw several wins for Bitcoin (it is “not” a security, it is “digital gold,” to name a few) and adoption gains for crypto from Argentina to Indonesia.
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In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph today, Binance CEO Zhao Changpeng revealed the company has already set up a bank account in Malta.
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Verge has been hacked, again, the US is investigating spoofing and wash trading in the crypto markets, and more in this week’s Hodler’s Digest.
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The First Deputy Governor of the Russian Central Bank has said that blockchain technology is not yet “mature” enough to be used on an industrial scale.
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The operator of one of Japan’s most popular personal budgeting apps Money Forward has announced its plans to launch a crypto asset exchange this year.
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May 22 marks eight years since a Bitcoin user paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, worth just $41 at the time.
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The New York Stock Exchange’s plans to offer swap contracts that would be settled in BTC will have a momentous impact on crypto adoption, commentators say.
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South Korea’s SK Telecom will now use Blockchain for their asset management, as well as support Blockchain tech startups with new platform.
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