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Advancing Financial Inclusion AUC Coins Set to Revolutionize Retail Payments in South Africa

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Time Stamp: January 11, 2024 10:20 AM - Modified On: January 11, 2024 - Published By:
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AUC Coins to be Added as a Payment Method for Retail in South Africa Key Highlights: Advanced Project's TIER platform enables direct AUC Coin payments at South African retailers. TIER facilitates payments for goods, services, and even municipal bills, creating a holistic ecosystem for AUC Coin usage. Africa leads the way and Advanced Project's success in South Africa serves as a beacon for wider digital asset adoption across the continent. Cape Town, South Africa – January 2024 – Advanced Project, a leading force in African blockchain innovation, is taking a

Stablecoins Under Scrutiny

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Time Stamp: July 1, 2023 9:37 AM - Modified On: July 1, 2023 - Published By:
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Amidst the market’s recovery from the recent onslaught of SEC crackdowns, rumors swirl over the potential targeting of stablecoins in their crosshairs. Such a move could have profound implications for cryptocurrency prices, making it crucial to gauge the likelihood of this scenario and the approach regulators might adopt. The largest stablecoins by market cap are Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC. Both are pegged to the US dollar and backed by various assets, typically highly liquid instruments like US Treasury bills. In theory, when someone wants to buy stablecoins from an

Bringing It All Together

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Time Stamp: November 30, 2022 1:31 PM - Modified On: November 30, 2022 - Published By:
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It starts with a national brand for music rehearsal space After 15 long years on the road touring with national acts such as Tool, Filter and Rage Against The Machine as lead singer for the Oregon based hard rock band DFiVE9, Nic Yannariello was looking for a way to get off the road, and so in 2003 he built and established the now iconic Hawthorne Theatre, a 600-person concert hall in Portland for national tours and regional acts. Seeing a need for his fellow musicians, Nick then founded Puddletown Studios

Let’s Roll! Dallas Startup is Revolutionizing the Music Industry

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Time Stamp: October 11, 2022 4:35 AM - Modified On: October 11, 2022 - Published By:
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Rock ‘n roll may be dead, but the music business is still projected to grow to $142 billion by 2030 globally, according to Goldman Sachs. Despite this growth the average musician is consistently being squeezed by the big players and not earning their fair share of the value of the art they have created. Community Musician — originally a “Craig’s List” for musicians — has developed a plan and formed a team to disrupt this unbalanced monopolistic system, all while ensuring that the musicians they work with are properly compensated

Bitrefill Lets El Salvadorans Pay All Accounts with BITCOIN

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Time Stamp: November 18, 2021 8:30 AM - Modified On: November 18, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitrefill is a well-known business among the Bitcoiners allowing them access to over four thousand gift cards by paying through BTC. Earlier this year, they partnered with Salvadoran startup Hugo App to enable Bitcoin exchange for Hugo’s wide range of goods and services. The ability to pay with bitcoin is on the rise as Bitrefill announced a new service that allows Salvadorans to pay their bills in BTC.  Bitcoin became proper legal tender in El Salvador starting this year on September 7, persuading all companies to accept BTC as a form

🔴 Bitcoin Futures ETFs Are Here?! | This Week in Crypto – Oct 18, 2021

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Time Stamp: October 18, 2021 1:00 AM - Modified On: October 18, 2021 - Published By:
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 Bitcoin Futures ETFs could come to exchanges soon, Coinbase is launching an NFT marketplace and guess which country is now the biggest crypto mining hub in the world? These stories and more this week in crypto. The price of Bitcoin surpassed the $60,000 mark following reports that the first U.S. Bitcoin futures exchange-traded funds could start trading soon. NYSE Arca certified its approval to begin listing ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF and Nasdaq confirmed that shares of Valkyrie’s Bitcoin ETF had been certified for listing on its exchange. The Bitcoin

California named ‘most crypto ready’ US state

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Time Stamp: September 18, 2021 12:30 PM - Modified On: September 18, 2021 - Published By:
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California has emerged as the most crypto-ready jurisdiction in the United States thanks to the proliferation of cryptocurrency ATMs and growing interest in digital assets among the state’s population, according to new industry research from review site Crypto Head. With a score of 5.72 out of 10, California edged out New Jersey (5.44), Texas (5.28), Florida (5.03) and New York (4.29) in the crypto-ready index. The state’s point total was also 2.54 points higher than the national average. The results were tabulated using metrics such as crypto-related Google searches, the presence

Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson Calls For Mass Rally Against U.S. Crypto Taxation Bill

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Time Stamp: August 10, 2021 11:35 AM - Modified On: August 10, 2021 - Published By:
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Charles Hoskinson, Cardano’s founder and CEO of blockchain research company Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), has urged the U.S. crypto community to rally against the recently proposed taxation policy. Hoskinson first took it to Twitter earlier this week, calling on digital asset proponents in the U.S. to rally in Washington DC to vent their grievances against the bill. This would be a bid to convince the country’s senators to amend the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) reporting rules for cryptocurrencies. “I think it’s about time we get a rally going in

Tether (USDT) cash equivalents have increased to 85%, company reveals

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Time Stamp: August 10, 2021 8:33 AM - Modified On: August 10, 2021 - Published By:
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Tether Holdings Limited, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin by market cap, revealed more details about its reserves in an assurance opinion by Moore Cayman, an audit services provider, which concluded that the information in the company’s Consolidated Reserves Report (CRR) is accurate.Tether’s reserves “The group’s consolidated assets exceed its consolidated liabilities,” according to the independent accountant’s report, which reviewed Tether’s latest CRR and determined that the issuer met its reserve obligations for the period that ended on June 30, 2021.“The group’s reserves held for its digital assets issued exceeds

Investing App Wealthfront to Offer Grayscale’s Bitcoin, Ethereum Products

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Time Stamp: July 30, 2021 8:50 AM - Modified On: July 30, 2021 - Published By:
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As more investors turn to cryptocurrencies, Wealthfront, a Palo Alto-based firm with $25 billion in assets under management (AUM), has expanded its clients’ investment options to include Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE).Wealthfront’s new offering will also include automation features like “intelligent dividend reinvestment” and tax-loss harvesting–a feature aimed at lowering clients’ tax bills. In using GBTC and ETHE, investors won’t need to set up external wallets and take care of technical aspects such as safekeeping the private keys. All of Grayscale’s crypto products are merely meant