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1xBit Announces Hot Live Casino Tournament for Valentine’s Day 2021

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Miami Mayor Serves up Big Bitcoin Endorsement Suggesting BTC Salaries

Speaking publically, Suarez thanked the city of Miami commissioners for supporting his resolution to procure a vendor to be able to offer employees the option to receive a portion of their salaries in Bitcoin. He added this allows our residents to pay for fees in Bitcoin and would also allow the city manager to cooperate with the county to allow taxes to be paid in Bitcoin. He continued; “The…

Gamer Shells Out $1.5 Million For Virtual Estate, Sets New NFT Sale Record

The explosive growth of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has opened up the blockchain industry to a new realm of endless possibilities. They have allowed for the existence of rare assets reminiscent of those in our conventional world, and virtual reality gamers are throwing their weight behind by splurging on these assets. An Axie Infinity gamer recently paid 888.25 ETH (worth $1.5 million at the time…

Mastercard to Support Select Crypto Assets Directly on its Network in 2021

Credit card giant Mastercard said that it would soon start supporting crypto payments on its network later in the year. Mastercard’s Merchants Soon to Accept Crypto According to a blog post by Master card on Wednesday (Feb. 10, 2021), the company revealed that would support a select number of cryptocurrencies in 2021, adding that crypto was quickly becoming an important part of the payments…

Amazon Eyeing Mexico For ‘Digital Currency’ Payments Project

In an effort to enter emerging markets, Amazon Inc. appears to be readying to deploy a new payments system involving “Digital and Emerging Payments (DEP)”. The project has yet to be officially announced, but Amazon has hinted at it across a series of recent job posts. “We are looking for a leader to help us launch a new payment product stating with Mexico as our initial launch country. This…

Ethereum 2.0 Staking Hits Milestone 3M ETH Worth $5.4 Billion

Ethereum has been hitting milestone after milestone this year, and the latest is the amount of it staked on the Beacon Chain deposit contract. There is now just over 3 million ETH staked on the ETH 2.0 blockchain, worth a staggering $5.4 billion at current prices. According to the beaconcha.in analytics platform, there are currently over 84,000 active validators with over 8,800 pending. Special…

StablyUSD (USDS) Launches On The Tezos Blockchain To Lower Transaction Costs

The regulated stablecoin fully backed by the US dollar, Stably USD (USDS), will launch on the popular public blockchain – Tezos as a part of an ongoing collaboration between the two parties. The stablecoin issuer aims to target lower fees with the Tezos network, which recently went through an upgrade that decreased the costs by about 75%. USDS Comes To Tezos Issued until now on the Ethereum…