Spain's Second-Largest Bank Will Soon Launch Crypto Services: Sources
December 7, 2020ByadminInBitcoin News
BBVA, the second-largest bank in Spain, with about $840 billion in assets, is poised to enter the cryptocurrency trading and custody space, according to two people familiar with the plans. The Spanish bank will begin its crypto offering out of Switzerland, said a source. Switzerland has relatively comprehensive rules around digital assets, set out by...
Nigeria's women on the front line
December 7, 2020ByadminInAfrica News
All Rinu Oduala wanted was for the government to take action against Nigeria's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars). After videos of police officers of the squad went viral in the first week of October, she started mobilising other young people to attend a 72-hour demonstration at the Lagos police headquarters and State House of Assembly. She...
Singapore's National Research Foundation Invests $9M in Blockchain Innovation
A Singapore government research department has launched a new program intended to advance commercial applications of blockchain within the city-state. According to a report by The Strait Times on Monday, the S$12 million (US$8.99 million) program from the National Research Foundation (NRF) will support research and development of real-world use cases for the technology. The...
Rural women take the Ingonyama Trust to court
A group of mostly women say they were tricked into signing leases by the Ingonyama Trust on their ancestral land and are now seeking a high court order to declare the agreements invalid. The case is set to be heard by a full bench of the KwaZulu-Natal Division of the high court in Pietermaritzburg, from...
Why Some Investors Get Bitcoin So Wrong
It is frustrating. But at the same time, interesting. Over the past couple of weeks, I've heard two well-respected investment managers say that they don't believe in bitcoin's supply limit. If it's easy to spin up another Bitcoin, they claim, then there is really no limit. Most of you reading this will be rolling your...
'This thing almost killed me'
Watching the news and seeing statistics about the coronavirus pandemic, it's easy to just view them as numbers. That was me before 17 October, when I started exhibiting acute Covid-19 symptoms. Before that, I had had mild signs, which I initially dismissed as fatigue from working long hours the previous weekend. There was a lingering...
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