- 80% of Australians know of crypto, <1% used it to pay for items: Central Bank(opinion)(news)
(rba.gov.au) - Square approved by FDIC to operate as commercial bank(news)(twitter.com)
‘Buy Bitcoin’ outperformed ‘Buy Gold’ in Google Trends the day after Black Thursday(news)(trends.google.com)- Coinbase’s Visa debit card can now be used with Google Pay to spend Bitcoin(news)(blog.coinbase.com)
- Bakkt receives $300M in funding to develop its mobile app(news)(medium.com)
- Zimbabwe's central bank makes plans to regulate crypto(news)
(chronicle.co.zw) - Bitcoin core developer proposes privacy upgrade for network rebroadcast logic(news)(gist.github.com)
- 10% of Pornhub models are paid in crypto(news)(theblockcrypto.com)
- Miners selling less than they mined precipitated Bitcoin’s latest 10% price drop(opinion)(news)(bytetree.com)
Oil markets tumble 30%, $26B wiped off crypto market as BTC drops 10% in 1 day(opinion)(news)(cnbc.com)- Belgian government with Wilsons to auction off 11 BTC, with no minimum reserve set, 2 weeks from today(news)(wilsonsauctions.com)
- Lagos Nigeria gets its 1st Bitcoin ATM(news)(blackenterprise.com)
- Bitcoin recognized as money by French court(news)(lesechos.fr)
- Exchange tech provider AlphaPoint receives $5.6M in financing(news)(alphapoint.com)
- Malta-based crypto investment fund suffers hack, exposing 250,000 users data(opinion)(news)(iz.ru)
- Natural gas power plant in upstate New York is mining 5 BTC per day(news)(bloomberg.com)
- Square Crypto awards grants to 2 Bitcoin developers(news)(mobile.twitter.com)
- South Korea legalizes crypto trading(news)(m.mk.co.kr)
- German regulator shuts down local Bitcoin ATM operator(news)(bloomberg.com)
- HTC to launch 5G router that runs full Bitcoin node(news)(venturebeat.com)
- US Federal Reserve Bank does 1st emergency interest rate cut since 2008, Bitcoin's price drops 2%(news)(federalreserve.gov)