Cristiano Ronaldo became the top scorer in men’s European Championship history as Portugal beat Hungary in front of more than 60,000 fans in Budapest. Ronaldo converted an 87th-minute penalty for his 10th goal in the competition, overtaking France’s Michel Platini on nine goals. His 11th came only a few minutes later when he took the […]
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Israel says it has carried out air strikes against Hamas militant targets in Gaza, in retaliation for incendiary balloons launched from the territory. Explosions were heard in Gaza City in the early hours of Wednesday. Several balloons were sent from Gaza into Israel earlier on Tuesday causing multiple fires, according to the Israeli fire service. […]
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The Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BOG), Dr. Ernest Addison, has disclosed that the apex bank has made progress in issuing the country’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC). Addison confirmed during a press conference that the project is now “in the advanced stages,” noting there is a need to approach the project in […]
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Tunisia’s Minister of Finance, Ali Kooli, said during a television interview over the weekend that he plans to change the country’s cryptocurrency laws. Bitcoin ownership should be “decriminalized,” he said, according to an English translation. The proposed law change comes after local media reported that a 17-year-old Tunisian boy was arrested in April for using […]
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Coinbase’s professional trading platform has added DOT, the native currency of the Polkadot blockchain, the exchange said in a blog post Monday. As of Monday, the token is available to transfer into Coinbase Pro accounts. Trading will begin on or after 9 a.m. PT Wednesday. The exchange typically adds cryptocurrencies to its retail platform a […]
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Tesla will resume accepting bitcoin (BTC, +11.98%) as payment once the cryptocurrency’s power-hungry miners go halfway green, CEO Elon Musk tweeted Sunday. The news appears to have driven the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies up. Musk halted Tesla’s months-old crypto foray in mid-May citing environmental concerns. But “when there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean […]
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The government is considering delaying the lifting of England’s remaining Covid restrictions by up to four weeks, sources have told the BBC. The final stage of lifting lockdown, originally planned to take place no earlier than 21 June, would see all legal limits on social contact removed. It comes amid growing concern over rapidly increasing […]
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Ethereum Classic is in the news today after it announced the next network upgrade scheduled for 21st July. The upgrade dubbed Magneto will take place at block 13,189,133 and will implement ECIP-1103. It will also include Ethereum Berlin upgrade features, as per the announcement. ECIP-1103 will allow the addition of all the protocol upgrades which […]
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The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has underlined Moscow’s intention to do away with the USD – and has suggested that crypto could play a part in ousting the American Dollar in trade deals. Lavrov’s comments could give real hope to those hoping crypto will find use-cases in international settlement deals. According to the news […]
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Nigeria may launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) by the end of 2021, according to a central bank official, Coindesk reports. Speaking at an online news briefing on Thursday, Rakiya Mohammed, an information technology specialist at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said that the entity had been exploring a possible CBDC for over […]
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