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Falling Bitcoin price doesn’t affect El Salvador’s strategy: ‘Now it’s time to buy more,’ reveals Deputy Dania Gonzalez

In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, a policymaker from El Salvador reveals how BTC has been helping the country change people’s lives.

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Amid sanctions, Russia weighs crypto for international payments: Report

Moscow has adopted a positive stance toward digital assets after its invasion of Ukraine triggered a sharp response from Western nations in the form of sanctions.

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Partying in Davos with Cointelegraph: Crypto card payments accepted

We’re saying farewell to the World Economic Forum Annual meeting by demonstrating the real-world utility of crypto payments.

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Central African Republic to launch official crypto hub ‘Sango’

The Central African Republic prepares to launch its first major crypto hub shortly after the National Assembly adopted Bitcoin as legal tender.

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SWIFT Is Experimenting With Decentralized Technologies to Allow CBDC Interconnection

SWIFT, the interbank payments protocol and messaging system, has announced it is working to connect the different central bank digital currency (CBDC) protocols in development today. The company has partnered with Capgemini, a digital services provider, making a series of experiments to ensure that the new set of CBDCs have cross-border payments and remittance capabilities. […]

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Meta trademark filing hints at plans for crypto payments platform

The five applications suggest the social media firm may use its namesake in a payments processing platform called Meta Pay.

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Two credit card firms in Israel to let cardholders buy Bitcoin

Two Israel-based credit card companies, Max and Isracard, have started working on Bitcoin investment and cashback solutions via a credit card.

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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Thinks Bitcoin Has No Future as a Payments Network

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has given his take regarding the future of Bitcoin’s usage. Bankman-Fried stated he doesn’t believe that Bitcoin will work as a payments network, due to its limited capability for scaling to fulfill this task. However, he believes it might become “an asset, a commodity, and a […]