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The digital identity project Worldcoin has garnered significant interest in Chile, with over 200,000 verified users since its launch in July 2023. In a Sept. 24 blog post, Worldcoin announced that more than 200,000 Chileans had signed up for its global identity protocol, World ID. For a country boasting a population
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Proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain platform Avalanche is expecting 5-10 million transactions on a subnet as a Japanese loyalty program company that claims to have 100 million users has partnered with the network to bring their mass-scale loyalty rewards program into a blockchain. Cointelegraph’s Andrew Fenton interviewed Nick Mussallem, Ava Labs' head of
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The share of Ethereum (ETH) held by so-called whale addresses has dropped since Ethereum's Shapella upgrade in mid April, suggesting that large investors may be leaning bearish in t near term.ETH whale population shrinks post-ShapellaThe amount of Ether held by addresses with 1,000-10,000 ETH, or "whales," was over 14.033 million ETH on
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Bitcoin (BTC) keeps pushing for a bullish end to February as the monthly close starts another week’s price action.The largest cryptocurrency looks set to preserve its gains as it closes the second month of 2023 — and is keeping bulls’ hopes alive in the process.Can the good times continue? The
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Between 2011 and 2021, the share of the world’s adult population that had bank accounts rose from 51% to 76%, the findings of the latest World Bank Global Financial Index survey have shown. About 1.4 billion adults are, however, still unbanked, not having the money or the identification required for
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On Tuesday, the European Central Bank, or ECB, published the results of a new survey conducted in six eurozone areas; the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Belgium, France, and Germany. Together, approximately 10% of respondents from the surveyed countries said they own cryptocurrencies. Out of this group, only 6% of respondents said
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Indonesia’s Tarjih Council and the Central Executive Tajdid of Muhammadiyah have issued a fatwa (decree) stipulating the illegality of cryptocurrency use or investment by the country’s Muslims. The fatwa points to the volatility as well as the lack of state backing as reasons why Muslims must avoid investing or using
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South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) is preparing a regulatory framework for crypto to protect the more vulnerable members of its society.The regulator wants to establish rules on how crypto trading should be conducted, according to a Bloomberg report Friday.“What we want to be able to do is to
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Coinbase’s Global VP of tax, Lawrence Zlatkin, has taken aim at the rushed cryptocurrency provisions added to Congress’ bipartisan infrastructure bill “at the last minute,” slamming lawmakers for hastily inserting amendments that could impact “60 million Americans.”In an Aug. 21 blog post taking aim at an Aug. 19 editorial article
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Cryptocurrency adoption has seen an accelerated growth this year, with the global crypto population doubling since January, according to a new report.Major digital asset company Crypto.com released its latest study on measuring global cryptocurrency users on Thursday, discovering that the number of crypto users worldwide has more than doubled from
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