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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has established a cryptocurrency fund to accept donations in bitcoins and Ethereum. Digital assets will finance open source technologies for children and youth around the world. UNICEF became the first organization in the UN that transacts in cryptocurrency, the fund said in a press release. “If the digital economy and currencies have […]

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation is considering the possibility of dividing cryptocurrencies into three types for their further regulation. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev, writes RNS. A new approach to regulation was developed during a panel discussion of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. “It is possible to divide cryptocurrencies into three types: technical tokens that occur to maintain the functioning of the system, virtual assets, then […]

The Venezuelan government uses cryptocurrencies “for free national and international payments,” Bloomberg reports citing President Nicolas Maduro. According to Maduro, the new tools of the Ministry of Finance and the central bank will soon allow everyone to carry out banking operations, including international payments. “Venezuela is already working in the cryptocurrency world,” Maduro summed up. Last week, it became known that the country's central bank is exploring the possibility of inclusion […]

The upcoming Ethereum network update called Istanbul will lead to disruptions in many decentralized applications (dApps). This opinion in a conversation with CoinDesk was expressed by the technical director of Aragon One Jorge Ischierdo. In particular, he said, the work of about 680 smart contracts involved to manage dApps on the Ethereum blockchain in the Aragon infrastructure will be disrupted. “Until that time, decentralized organizations (DAO) […]

Starting from November of this year, Cardano network users will have the opportunity to make money on ADA staking. IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson said this at Cardano Summit Bulgaria, writes Cryptobriefing. Hoskinson's statement came shortly after the successful launch of the Shelley test network, which is the first decentralized implementation of the Ouroboros Genesis consensus algorithm. At the moment, the introduction of additional functionality […]