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Bitcoin Daily: IBM Eyes Blockchain For African Agriculture; CFTC Goes Back To School On Ethereum

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BitPay has announced that OneGold, a marketplace that combines the benefits of gold and silver with blockchain-based digital assets, is now accepting bitcoin and bitcoin cash. When they started OneGold, we were ready to help them accept Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash through BitPay.”.

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Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin-Stealing Malware Attacks 700K Websites; Blockchain Tackles Renewable Energy Trading

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The malicious software attempted to utilize StFX’s collective computing power in order to create or discover bitcoin for monetary gain. In the meantime, cryptocurrency hackers attacked traffic analytics service StatCounter to steal bitcoin from users of online exchange desk Gate.io. As a result, Gate.io

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Bitcoin Daily: Coinbase Eyes Asia Expansion; R3, ING Pair On Blockchain Tech

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Bitcoin fell to a five-week low during this past holiday weekend, reaching $3,442.50, its lowest level since Dec. Bitcoin keeps bouncing along in the upper $3K range, but it was unable to extend last week’s breakout above this level,” wrote Market Analyst Jani Ziedins. By Tuesday (Jan. 22), the crypto was up 0.7

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Bitcoin Daily: WHO Debuts MiPasa Blockchain To Share Covid-19 Data; Coinbase’s Retail Payments Portal Passes $200M Transactions Processed

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The program is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) that will hopefully help with early detection of the virus and identifying carriers and hotspots. Commerce product lead John Zettler said bitcoin was still far and away the leader of the pack in terms of the types of crypto used for payment, due mostly to familiarity.

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Bitcoin Daily: Italy's Banks Test Digital Euro On DLT

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The digital currency in trial is supported by distributed ledger technology (DLT), and the two-part experiments also aim to examine the use cases of a DLT-enabled currency.

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Bitcoin Daily: Travala Users Can Use Crypto Again To Pay For Expedia Bookings; S. African Ex-Crypto Agency Chief Allegedly Scammed Investors Of $13.4M

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The feature was shelved at that time, as Expedia’s systems weren’t set up to accept bitcoin payments. Meanwhile, regulated crypto asset program Currency.com is now the holder of a Gibraltar distributed ledger technology (DLT) license, according to a press release.

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Bitcoin Daily: Bank Of Canada Tests DLT; Crypto Startup Uphold Gets Into Loans

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In a statement, Bank of Canada’s Senior Special Director of Financial Technology Scott Hendry said, “[Distributed ledger technology (DLT)] is a promising technology that has the potential to reduce costs for participants and open new opportunities.