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Bitcoin Daily: Travala.com Combines With TravelbyBit; France Tests Blockchain-Operational Digital Euro

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In other news, France has become the first nation to test out a blockchain-operational digital euro with successful results, Banque de France announced on Wednesday (May 20). Additionally, the recent test of securities issuance was said to be based on technology received after the bank’s call for applications in late March.

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Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Tops $35K; IGT Wins Patent For Using Crypto At Casinos

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Active bitcoin accounts are approaching the record high reached in December 2017, before the previous bitcoin peak crashed. And as of Monday, active accounts — accounts in use in the last six months — held 82 percent of all bitcoin. Account users remain confident as well, according to Bloomberg. More than 2.1

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Bitcoin Daily: Crypto Industry Stocks Jump With Bitcoin’s Rise; Cashaa Teams To Build Crypto-Friendly FI

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Blockchain industry stocks are on the rise as bitcoin reaches new heights, Seeking Alpha reported. HIVE Blockchain Technologies, Riot Blockchain and Marathon Patent Group are on the uptick, according to the report, which was published early Tuesday (Oct. Bitcoin reached higher than the $13,600 level intraday. as of 7:19 p.m.

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Our 7 Questions to Prevent Bad Bank Technology

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The most significant problem with bank innovation is that bankers see or hear about a sexy piece of technology at a conference or at another bank and then acquire it. The new piece of technology ends up solving a known problem but, in the process, creates more problems, and risks, than it solves.

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Bitcoin Daily: Ripple Tapped By CIMB For Southeast Asia DLT Tech, Bitcoin Cash’s Hard Fork Goes Live

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CIMB , a banking group that operates in countries such as Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand, has inked a deal with Ripple in order to bring the company’s blockchain technology to its SpeedSend remittance offering, Cryptovest reported. It will also reportedly work with more than one ledger technology, such as bitcoin and Ethereum.

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Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Stock Dips At Vaccine News; Crypto Licensing Bill Proposed In NJ; TradeStars Launches New Fantasy Sports Stocks Token

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As other stocks rebounded at the news of a breakthrough in Pfizer and BioNTech’s joint COVID-19 vaccine, bitcoin fell sharply to nearly $14,815, according to CoinDesk. Nellie Pou introduced new cryptocurrency regulations in a bill titled “Digital Asset and Blockchain Technology act,” on Thursday, Nov. Meanwhile, New Jersey Sen.

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Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Kiosks At The Supermarket, tZERO To Launch Next Week

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Meanwhile, a study by data firm Chainalysis has found that bitcoin as a form of payment doubled in 2018 on darknet market sites. Bitcoin transaction volumes on darknet markets, where people can buy illegal goods, saw an increase over the entire year to reach an average of $2 million daily.

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