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5,000 miles apart: Thailand and Hungary to jointly explore blockchain tech
The pact between the two nations' financial technology associations will see cooperation on technology, including blockchain, to power their respective financial industries. The financial technology associations for Thailand and Hungary have signed a bilateral...
Celsius Network’s bungling showed why centralization can’t protect privacy
Celsius’ bankruptcy proceedings resulted in 14,000 pages of customer data leaking to the public. The incident displayed the pitfalls of centralized finance. In Celsius Network’s recent court filing, the billion-dollar centralized finance (CeFi) platform exposed more...
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s win was a victory for crypto
Cryptocurrency fans have a lot to look forward to with the new prime minister, who has a track record of being highly positive about the industry. A former investment banker turned savvy politician, Rishi Sunak has had an incredibly prolific career in just a short...
Nifty News: LooksRare the latest NFT market to sack royalties, Twitter’s tweeting tiles, and more
LooksRare joins the lineup of NFT marketplaces that have abandoned default creator royalties but says its replacement solution is “competitive”. Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace LooksRare is the latest in a string of NFT markets to do away with enforcing creator...
Hong Kong could be key for China’s crypto comeback: Arthur Hayes
Hayes says the next crypto bull run will be tied to when China embraces the crypto market again, and Hong Kong could be the gateway for this to happen. Arthur Hayes, the former CEO of crypto derivatives giant BitMEX, believes the next crypto bull run will start when...
Nigerians’ passion for crypto is stopping short at the eNaira
With less than 0.5% adoption, the central bank of Nigeria is struggling to push its eNaira CBDC to its citizens. Nigeria’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) is not getting the warm reception expected from its crypto-savvy population.According to a Bloomberg report,...
HK and Singapore’s mega-rich are eyeing crypto investments: KPMG
Despite the ongoing bear market, family offices and high-net-worth individuals in Hong Kong and Singapore are keen to invest in crypto or already have holdings. Hong Kong and Singapore’s wealthy elite appear to be looking at digital assets with fervor, after a new...
Crypto platform Freeway halts services citing ‘unprecedented volatility’
Cryptocurrency platform Freeway has halted transactions and services related to their “Supercharger” high-yield product until further notice. Crypto platform Freeway has halted some of its services, citing "unprecedented volatility" in the foreign exchange and...
Mastercard and Paxos help banks offer crypto, Jack Dorsey details new social platform and Tesla hodls BTC: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 16-22
Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top...
3 reasons why DeFi investors should always look before leaping
DeFi investing is riddled with potholes. Here are a few tips on how to avoid them. Welcome readers, and thanks for subscribing! The Altcoin Roundup newsletter is now authored by Cointelegraph’s resident newsletter writer Big Smokey. In the next few weeks, this...