Amazon’s grip on the internet economy appears to be coming for currency next, with the e-commerce giant preparing to launch a “digital currency” project in Mexico.

This product will enable customers to convert their cash in to digital currency using which customers can enjoy online services including shopping for goods and/or services like Prime Video.

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An anonymous source claiming to be a senior Indian Finance Ministry official has claimed that the use of crypto assets will soon be completely banned in the world’s second most populated country.

The source claimed that the use of cryptocurrency in all its forms will be banned under a new law expected to soon be introduced in the parliament. Transacting with crypto via foreign exchanges will also be prohibited.

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The Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE) has poured a whopping ~100 million buying Ether (ETH) over the last 24 hours. The digital asset manager bought over 52K ETH taking the total assets under management for ETHE to above $5.5 billion.

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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has proposed an official resolution that would see Bitcoin (BTC) become an acceptable payment instrument in various parts of the city's administration.

The Mayor said that the city commission has supported the resolution, and is now taking next steps:

“I wanna thank the city of Miami commissioners for supporting my resolution, which directs a city manager after analysis to procure a vendor to be able to offer our employees to get a percentage of their salary in Bitcoin; allows our residents to pay for fees in Bitcoin.”

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Market cap of exchange-issued tokens surpasses $43 billion, Binance's BNB token surges 150%.

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Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital asset manager, has filed to register a new cryptocurrency trust for decentralized finance platform Yearn Finance (YFI).

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Bitcoin get new All Time high $49000.

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Tether printed new $1 billion dollars (USDT).

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Sasha Ivanov CEO Waves announced big news.

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Cardano’s development firm Input Output Hong Kong successfully conducted a hard fork and also applied the Goguen native token upgrade, known as the Mary upgrade, to Cardano’s testnet, which transforms the blockchain into a multi-asset network similar to Ethereum. The team expects to have launched the mainnet by the end of February.


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As Bitcoin fell back to a local low of under $46,000 in the early hours of Feb. 15, the entire crypto market cap saw $1 billion wiped away. This downturn acted to liquidate many over-leveraged long positions. Data from Bybt is showing that in the last 24 hours, $1.89 billion in losses were incurred.

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A new report from the credit rating agency Fitch Ratings says the increase of crypto activity from firms may not translate to a short term effect on credit profiles, but it could modernize the financial system over time.


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Recent blockchain data shows that, over the past three days, Ripple cofounder and former CTO, Jed McCaleb, has transferred 76.3 million XRP from his "tacostand" wallet.

A total of 365,628,235.465371 XRP remain on the "tacostand" balance.

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Ukraine, UAE sign contracts worth over $3 bln creation of a platform for the exchange of intellectual property based on the Fantom blockchain.

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Bitcoin has reached $50,000 on OKEx exchange.

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Tether printed $400,000,000 USDT.

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NEM foundation released Symbol 0.10.0.7 with:

- Core, REST + SDKs releases are provided;
- Fixing most known important issues;
- A Testnet fork will occur at Block 115500 (~16.00 Wed 17 Feb UTC).

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Tezos (XTZ) has been added to Bitfinex Borrow. Bitfinex customers will be able to obtain loans of up to 70% of the value of their XTZ holdings in US Dollars (USD).

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Russian mobile network operators Beeline and Megafon are considering providing wallet and other services for a possible digital ruble. The companies are proposing "interested" in developing a digital wallet that would link the central bank digital currency (CBDC) to users' mobile phone numbers.

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Gate .io is going to start QiSwap (QI) trading on Feb.17, 2021 08:00 UTC. Exchange have allocated QiSwap token (QI) airdrop to QTUM holders based on snapshot captured on Feb 12 15:00 UTC. The distribution ratio is 2 QTUM: 1 QI.

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SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services firm, is to lead an ongoing strategic fundraising round for Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum.

Sygnum, which holds a Swiss banking license, said it has secured an “eight-figure” U.S. dollar investment from SBI’s subsidiary.

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