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The third-largest network of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency ATMs in the world, after those in the US and Canada, is located in the European nation of Spain. El Salvador which has 212 cryptocurrency ATMs is now in fourth position as Spain overtook it by additional 3 crypto ATMs, with 215 crypto ATMs currently in operation. Spain represents to own 0.6% of all crypto ATMs installed worldwide.
Giustra believes that the global economy is moving toward the digital world and Bitcoin is likely to stand out based on his prediction that a monetary system reset will soon occur. The billionaire Giustra believes that Bitcoin might threaten the formation of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) by countries like the United States and undermine the sovereignty of fiat currencies.
Russian bitcoin mining revenue increased severally over the previous few years. The industry expanded through both the ups and downs of the cryptocurrency market. Between 2017 and 2021, Russian bitcoin revenues increased 18 times. According to current exchange rates, it increased from 7 billion rubles in the first year under study (less than $114 million) to 128 billion rubles in the last year (more than $2 billion).
Robert Kiyosaki, a well-known real estate investor and author of the best-selling book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" thinks that Bitcoin is so valuable that it is pointless to try to convince people who are skeptical of it to accept it. Since the US government has been printing money on a regular basis for the past two years, Kiyosaki cites this as his main justification for believing in Bitcoin.
Crypto Meme Dogecoin (DOGE) is still battling an extended downward price trend, which raises questions about the asset's ability to return to its 2021 highs. However, The growing number of holders suggests that some investors are placing bets on the token's recovery. Dogecoin had 4,454,487 holders as of October 22 which represents an increase of about 2% from the 4,365,551 holders registered on July 24.
Despite the recent market setbacks, a prominent Bloomberg analyst believes that Bitcoin (BTC) is displaying signs of entering a bullish maturation stage. According to Bloomberg commodity expert Mike McGlone, based on Bitcoin's performance at its lowest volatility and its price maintaining a steady level pattern since June despite the Fed Interest rate hike, it may be approaching an unstoppable maturation stage.
Crypto exchange Binance has been given regulatory approval in Cyprus and will be authorized to provide services for digital assets as a result of the platform's recent registration with the nation's security regulator. Binance will be able to provide spot, custodian, staking, and card services in accordance with the CYSEC's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML-CTF) essentials.
The global cryptocurrency market has been expanding steadily over the past year, with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) area standing out among the other regions due to recording the biggest year-over-year (YoY) growth in terms of crypto transaction volume. The Middle East and North Africa region saw the biggest global rise in crypto transaction volume between June 2021 and June 2022, up to 48%.
Over the next six months, financial giant Fidelity plans to add 100 new employees to its cryptocurrency division. The Boston-based financial giant's new hiring drive sets it distinct from certain cryptocurrency businesses that recently began mass-firing their personnel in response to falling cryptocurrency values. With $4.5 trillion worth of assets under management, Fidelity probably wants to take advantage of these major layoffs in order to recruit additional talent.
Oanda, a multi-asset trading firm based in New York, has launched a new cryptocurrency trading service in the United States. This was in collaboration with regulated blockchain infrastructure provider Paxos Trust Company and intended to provide investors with secure access to crypto alongside their existing forex portfolios. The agreement will allow US-based investors to spot-trade cryptocurrencies on Paxos' itBit exchange via Oanda's mobile platform.
This year has seen a surge in whale accumulation and address activity on Chainlink LINK. As the bear market kicked in, Big whale addresses with 10,000-1 million LINK continued to accumulate tokens. According to the most recent data from the crypto-analytic site Santiment, this group of investors has added more than $312 million in LINK tokens to their wallets since March 3rd.
Interpol has announced the introduction of a fully operational metaverse, which will first be used for activities such as immersive training courses for forensic investigations. The INTERPOL Metaverse is the first-ever Metaverse specifically created for global law enforcement. Among other things, the platform will allow law enforcement around the world to engage with one another through avatars.
Finder, an Australian financial services firm, ran two surveys among its high-profile professionals to assess their views on bitcoin's future price. Bitcoin, The biggest digital asset, is expected to trade at around $21,300 by the end of the year, according to analysts. They are optimistic about the long-term value, predicting it to reach about $80,000 by 2025 and around $270,000 by 2030.
According to South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's regulators are considering allowing individual investors to directly participate in investing in digital assets as they take a different approach from the government of mainland China. The potential attitude change would coincide with Hong Kong's loss of financial technology talent, which would benefit Singapore, Hong Kong's primary rival, by undermining the territory's position as a hub for the crypto business.
Tether announced that it would make its USDT cryptocurrency, the leading stablecoin in the world by market capitalization available at more than 24,000 ATMs throughout Brazil. Brazilian ATM customers will soon have the ability to instantly convert reals into USDT and vice versa, as well as send their USDT anywhere in the world. Not only will this have a significant impact on the payments sector, but also on the entire Brazilian financial system.
According to research released this week by cryptocurrency data provider Kaiko, Bitcoin's 20-day realized volatility, a measure of the daily variations in price, has dropped below both Nasdaq and the S&P 500's level for the first time in two years. Bitcoin's 20-day realized volatility, a measure of the daily variations in price, has dropped below both Nasdaq and the S&P 500's level for the first time in two years.
Crypto assets have reportedly been recognized as financial product under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (FAIS) Act of South Africa, according to a newly released government gazette. The term refers to any digital representation of value that is not issued by a central bank but can be electronically traded, transferred, or kept by natural or legal persons for the purpose of making payments, making investments, or obtaining other benefits.
In just seven days, Cardano's NFT volume has grown by 280%. There was a 280% increase in ADA NFT volumes between Oct. 10, when there were only 811,000, and Oct. 17, when there were 3.0 million ADA. Immutable X was moved to position four by Cardano's entry into the top three NFT networks. According to data from OpenCNFT, the number of NFT trades surged by 67% over the previous seven days to reach 48,384, while the number of NFTs sold increased by 65.27% to reach 45,668.
According to a document distributed by the investment company, institutional clients of Fidelity Digital Assets will be able to trade ether (ETH) starting on October 28. The action is the latest step taken by Fidelity, the parent firm of Fidelity Digital Assets, to make cryptocurrency accessible to institutional clients. The company announced earlier this month that it had launched a new Ethereum Index Fund for accredited investors after raising around $5 million.
Former CEO of MicroStrategy and executive chairman Michael Saylor has continued to praise Bitcoin's (BTC) capabilities, referring to the leading cryptocurrency as a path to freedom. Saylor further confirms that Bitcoin's decentralized structure transforms the asset into an economic machine based on the truth and addresses some of the inefficiencies in the conventional banking industry.
According to a CNBC story, N26, a $9 billion European digital bank, is introducing services for trading bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The bank's newly created service, N26 Crypto, will be made available to Austrian consumers over the coming weeks and will initially support bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies. Over the course of the following six months, N26 intends to broaden its service offering to customers in other markets following its initial release.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Virunga National Park has announced that it now accepts more than 100 cryptocurrencies, including the Shiba Inu meme coin (SHIB). The park depends on donations to fund the rangers who assist in safeguarding its diverse wildlife. Savannahs, active volcanoes, and snowfields are just a few of the incredibly diverse habitats that make up the park, which has a surface area of about 7,800 square kilometers.
According to Pali Bhat, chief product officer, Redditors have generated more than 3 million Reddit Vault wallets to buy and trade NFT avatars based on the platform's Snoo mascot since the series debuted in July. Reddit isn't the first site to let NFTs as PFPs (also known as profile pictures), but it has been one of the more well-received launches. Success for NFT on Reddit suggests that there might still be a market for JPEGs.
Whale investors in Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, have kept accumulating. According to Santiment data, 3.5 million additional coins have been added to Ethereum whale addresses that hold one million or more ETH since September 11. The addition increases the billionaire whales' ETH holdings by 14%, raising the total holdings of the roughly 132 wallets in this cohort to an all-time high balance of 28.55 million ETH.
Tesla released documents before its third-quarter investor relations call, showing that its Bitcoin holdings have not changed since the second quarter of 2022. According to the business, it still has $218 million in Bitcoin. Tesla announced in July that it had sold $75% of its holdings in Bitcoin, which were worth $936 million at the time. Following the sale, Tesla revealed that as of the end of June, it still had $222 million in "digital assets" on its balance sheet.
Making it easier to market digital assets could help Japan further soften its cryptocurrency restrictions, which might increase its appeal to top crypto exchanges like Binance and others. According to fresh documents seen by Bloomberg, the governing body of cryptocurrency exchanges aims to allow them to list cryptocurrencies without subjecting them to a stringent vetting process unless the tokens are brand-new to Japan's market.
Nubank, a Brazilian fintech bank, announced the launch of the Nucoin token on the Polygon blockchain, opening the door for a rewards program for its 70 million Latin American customers. The token, according to the business, will be made available in the first half of 2023 and would reward customers for their involvement and loyalty with bank products without charging them any fees or costs. The tokens can be exchanged for benefits and special prices on particular goods.
The Bitcoin Mining Council (BMC) has published fresh evidence that shows how minimal the impact of mining Bitcoin (BTC) on the environment is, in light of an ongoing discussion on this issue. Indeed, as stated in a video aired this October, one of the findings of the BMC's "Global Bitcoin Mining Data Review" for Q3 2022 is that global BTC mining uses only 0.16% of the world's energy production.
In order to encourage the creation of NFT-related projects on the XRP Ledger, Ripple has announced the second wave of grantees chosen to join its $250 million Creator Fund. The metaverse platform 9LEVEL9, which will offer virtual event tickets as NFTs, the Japanese NFT marketplace Anifie, the NFT sports platform Capital Block, the XRP NFT marketplace NFT Master and others are all joining the fund's second wave.
According to BNY Mellon CEO Robin Vince, the bank's decision to debut institutional-focused crypto services last week was ultimately influenced by its customer demand. Vince further cited a poll the bank had commissioned this year that revealed that 91% of large institutional asset managers, asset owners, and hedge funds were considering making an investment in a tokenized asset in the next few years.
According to Coinbase senior adviser John D'Agostino, institutional adoption of digital assets is going very fast, much quicker than the rate at which emerging sectors typically expand. D'Agostino told SALT in an interview chaired by Anthony Scaramucci that new asset classes normally take longer to develop because institutional inertia is a real thing and there are a lot of switching costs associated with adding new assets, but that this hasn't been the case with crypto:
As part of its decentralized response to Twitter, Bluesky Social's co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed the most recent version of its social protocol and a new Bluesky Social app. The new protocol, which was previously known as ADX but is now known as Authenticated Transfer Protocol or AT Protocol, is referred to as a protocol for massively distributed social apps that will support account portability, algorithmic choice, interoperability, and performance.
India presently has 11% of the world's Web 3.0 talent, according to a recent research by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), a non-profit organization with over 3,000 members. With approximately 75,000 blockchain professionals working there today, India is the third-largest Web 3.0 workforce in the world according to this statistic. The industry association also forecasts that during the following two years, the skill pool will increase by nearly 120%.
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and Israel's Ministry of Finance are getting ready to launch a blockchain-based digital state bond. To conduct live testing of a new platform employing smart contracts and tokenization for the trading and settlement of digital bonds, the Israeli government and TASE are collaborating with the companies Fireblocks and VMWare, which provide the infrastructure for digital assets.
A number of food companies have lately begun to establish themselves within the Web3 ecosystem by registering trademarks for the Metaverse and non fungible tokens (NFTs). Kraft Foods Group filed a trademark for its iconic hot dog-shaped Weinermobile, according to licensed trademark attorney Mike Kondoudis. According to the filing, the company intends to expand into NFTs, digital tokens, virtual commodities, NFT marketplaces, virtual food, drink, and restaurants.
Bitcoin has officially entered a number of Guinness World Records, the first of which is being acknowledged as the "first decentralized cryptocurrency." "Bitcoin was created as a solution to the problem of regulating a digital currency in the absence of a centralized organization," according to the entry. Guinness notes that Bitcoin uses proof-of-work to provide decentralized consensus, but it appears that the record holder is still figuring out how Bitcoin functions.
Despite significant capital outflows from Bitcoin, the asset's market capitalization remained greater than that of selected traditional stocks that command tangible real-world assets. In particular, as of October 18, Bitcoin had a market valuation of $374.78 billion, making it the 14th most valuable asset class in the world, overtaking JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) at $349.31 billion and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) at $278.82 billion.
To make Web3 technologies available and approachable for all merchants, major international e-commerce platform Shopify has announced a partnership with Novel, a no-code Web3 commerce platform. As part of the collaboration, Novel released an app on the Shopify App Store that gives current Shopify businesses the means to experience Web3 innovation in e-commerce without the need for technical expertise or significant financial or time commitments.
According to a story by prominent local news outlet Khaleej, the Ajman Police in Dubai became the first law enforcement organization in the world to offer its services inside the metaverse. The Ajman Police General Command debuted a brand-new cutting-edge service during Gitex Technology Week dubbed "Request for Sponsorship," which enables the general public to get in touch with the police digitally.
The second-ranked cryptocurrency, Ethereum (ETH), is noticeably beating the Nasdaq index, despite the fact that the association between the stock market and Bitcoin (BTC) is frequently taken into account when examining the performance of the largest cryptocurrency. Since mid-July, when the stock market has been experiencing a sell-off, Ethereum has actually been outperforming the Nasdaq by almost 20%, Messari's crypto expert Tom Dunleavy noted.