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Team Great Britain to Serve Olympics With a Side of NFTs

NFT News Team Great Britain has become the first Olympic team to launch its NFT collection. The project is a collab with designer Ben Sherman and Commerce provider Tokns. The first NFT minted will commemorate Max Whitlock’s performance in Rio in 2016. Great Britain’s Team is all set for the Olympics and comes with its own set of Non-Fungible Tokens. That’s right, the great nation’s team will become the first to launch its own NFT collection. Working alongside Ben Sherman, the team is launching its own non-fungible token collection. They

Waves Powers Russia’s First Reported Crypto-Backed Bank Loan

Expobank, a commercial bank in Russia, has reportedly issued the country’s first-ever loan backed by cryptocurrency.According to an Aug. 19 report by local news agency Kommersant, Expobank provided the credit through issuing an individual bank loan powered by Waves (WAVES) tokens.Waves CEO and founder Alexander Ivanov confirmed the news in a tweet, noting that the loan used Waves tokens as collateral.According to the report, the new loan was issued to local entrepreneur Mikhail Uspensky earlier this week. The businessman reportedly said that he is committed to keep using Waves tokens

Goldman Sachs Is Hiring a New VP of Digital Assets

Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs is hiring a new vice president in the Digital Assets team within its Global Markets Division in London.According to a recent job posting on the investment firm’s website, the new VP will work with the Digital Assets team in “defining and executing Goldman Sachs’ distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain efforts firmwide, including any potential initiatives in the cryptocurrency space.” The role requires that any applicants be able to identify opportunities where blockchain and DLT digital assets can add value.The current global head of digital

Key Timing for Adoption? Crypto Goes Mainstream With TV, Newspaper Ads

Amid turbulent times for the world at large, the cryptocurrency space seems to be cruising on its own steam in 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has put a major strain on economies around the world, and countries such as the United States have seen their central banks resort to extended quantitative easing in order to stimulate their financial ecosystems.Some analysts believe that this continual fiscal stimulus is part of the reason that the cryptocurrency market is enjoying relative success compared with its traditional financial counterparts.The likes of Anthony Pompliano, co-founder of

Token Launches From Ethereum to Telegram: Where Do We Go From Here?

In February, United States Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester Peirce was asked to give her opinion on the SEC’s case against Telegram. She declined to comment at the time, as SEC officials do not speak publicly about ongoing enforcement actions. In late July, however, with the Telegram case settled, Commissioner Peirce gave a speech titled “Not Braking and Breaking” that pointedly questioned the approach taken by the SEC in the Telegram case. Concluding her remarks, Commissioner Peirce asked:“Who did we protect by bringing this action? The initial purchasers, who

Venezuela May Soon Be Collecting Taxes in Crypto

The Bolivarian Council of Mayors in Venezuela signed the so-called "National Tax Harmonization Agreement" for 305 municipalities in the country, including the Petro (PTR) as a means to collect payments of taxes and sanctions.The cryptocurrency is becoming increasingly widely used as the result of a new campaign. According to the government, the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, will be in charge of implementing a single registry of taxpayers through a digital consultation tool.She will also be in charge of creating an information exchange and monitoring system for companies to record

What Would the Re-Election of Alexander Lukashenko Mean for Crypto?

Protests have erupted in Belarus following the country’s presidential election on Sunday, but the possible continued presidency of Alexander Lukashenko may be good news for crypto.Lukashenko reportedly won re-election against opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in a landslide victory with more than 80% of the vote on Aug. 9. However, officials from many nations and within Belarus are condemning the election results as flawed, with reports of falsified ballots. ‘Europe's last dictator’The president of the eastern European nation has served since 1994, during which time he has made a number of statements

Why Grayscale’s New Digital Currency Ad Could Bring Crypto Investing To Millions

This morning Grayscale, the world’s largest provider of cryptocurrency investment vehicles, temporarily turned its attention away from hoovering up the supply of Bitcoin to focus on arguably the most intractable problem in all of crypto: getting your stubborn friends and family on board.  Last Friday Grayscale founder and CEO Barry Silbert teased a massive ad buy on Twitter with the intention to “brrring crypto to the masses” — and this morning he delivered, with spots on CNBC, MSNBC, FOX, and FOX Business, among others. The Grayscale blog, meanwhile, pitches the