Brazil News

Brazil’s banking chief argues that crypto is a failure as a currency — but in neighbouring Venezuela it has already ‘changed the destiny of an entire country’.

Binance has rolled out peer-to-peer crypto trading with five new Latin American fiat currencies.

Alibaba has registered a patent in Brazil that aims to establish a blockchain-based transaction system.

André Figer, vice president of one of the largest sporting career management companies in Brazil, has his eyes firmly set on tokenizing soccer players.

Brazil opens up to the possibility of implementing Blockchain technology to issue university diplomas and prevent fraud.

Legendary soccer player Ronadinho Gaúcho, now under investigation for involvement in Bitcoin pyramid schemes, was detained with falsified passports.

Brazil’s PIX will cut out payment intermediaries, enabling peer-to-peer and business-to-business transactions in seconds.

The new platform will facilitate payments in up to 10 seconds using QR codes or identification data alongside computers, ATMs, or mobile phones.

Crypto exchanges based in Brazil face huge fines or being shut down.

Adam Back talks about the details of Bitcoin's early days, his first emails with Satoshi Nakamoto and others about Bitcoin, and more.

A report from Kaspersky Lab suggests a growing fondness for prepaid debit cards among hackers, but it is too early to say whether Bitcoin is being left behind.

Binance launches Latamex, a fiat-crypto platform for Latin American countries that will operate under the Binance Fiat Gateway.

Brazil’s tax authority has implemented a new tax code that fines taxpayers who fail to declare their Bitcoin and crypto transactions.

The creation of a new cryptocurrency for BRICS member nations was discussed at the 11th annual BRICS Summit 2019.

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