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The state of North Carolina has pushed the passage of House Bill 86 and some digital currency advocates and firms like Coinbase believe the bill makes the state more friendly towards cryptocurrency businesses. At the moment North Carolina’s House Bill 86 has been presented to Governor Roy Cooper and awaits his signature.
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Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on the Chainbet protocol created by the developer Jonald Fyookball, designed to add trustless betting features to the Bitcoin Cash network. Following the launch of this concept, the Openbazaar developer Chris Pacia messed around with the idea and completed the first on-chain atomic bet. Now, this week the Chainbet contributors Fyookball, Pacia, and James Cramer have extended the protocol to include multiplayer bets, auctions, and dice rolls.
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CryptoSpaceX and Worldwide Asset eXchange™(WAX) have announced that further Crypto Collectibles™ will be available on OPSkins™, the marketplace for online video game assets, and will be tradable with WAX Tokens, Bitcoin, ETH, US dollars, Euros and dozens of other currencies. This follows similar recent news that CryptoWars, a fully decentralized strategy game built on the Ethereum blockchain, would be offering Crypto Collectibles™ on the platform.
CryptoSpaceX is a strategy battle game that combines open world gameplay with blockchain-based crypto collectibles. Players can collect and battle planets and starships while scavenging for the in-game natural resource Stardust, which can be used to build and upgrade items.
Regulated cryptocurrency exchange Itbit announced today that it has received approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services to add more cryptocurrencies to its product offerings. The company will begin offering custody, escrow, OTC trading, and exchange services for BCH, ETH, LTC, and XLM, in addition to its existing BTC offerings.
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Itbit announced on Thursday, June 14, that it will start offering several new products based on cryptocurrencies other than BTC. The New York-based company wrote:
TapJets, a private jet instant booking platform, has added Litecoin ($ LTC) as an approved form of payment, giving customers another instant payment option to augment traditional credit card payments and bank transfers. This new offering allows TapJets’ customers to instantly book private flights from their smartphones and head to the airport while the blockchain transaction is completed in the background.
Eugene Kesselman, CEO of TapJets, said: “We are excited to add Litecoin to the Bitcoin and Ethereum payment options we already accept. The Litecoin community is strong, and we are happy to work with the Litecoin Foundation to welcome them to our platform. Making it easier to use cryptocurrency in more places is what separates the leaders from followers. This is precisely what the #PayWithLitecoin movement is all about.”
Revolut, the London-based fintech firm, has added Bitcoin Cash and Ripple to its catalog of supported cryptocurrencies. Thus, customers will be able to buy the two added cryptos from the Revolut mobile app. This move signals the company’s desire to establish itself in the emerging cryptocurrency fintech market.
Revolut was founded in London in 2015 as a fintech firm with a core focus on providing alternative digital banking solutions. The company dabbled in cryptocurrency in 2017, offering exchange services for Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum. Revolut has a partnership with Luxembourg-based Bitstamp to facilitate its cryptocurrency transactions. Bitstamp is reportedly the oldest surviving cryptocurrency exchange platform in the world. The addition of Bitcoin Cash and Ripple brings the London-based firm’s crypto catalog to five supported cryptocurrencies.
There are a lot of odd things you can buy with Bitcoin – spy gear, lasers, alpaca socks, and now, high-end deodorant.
Deodorant maker Schmidt’s Naturals is the latest company to let online shoppers buy its products with Bitcoin. Co-founder and CEO Michael Cammarata claims Bitcoin has accounted for 5 to 10 percent of online sales since they started accepting the cryptocurrency on May 14.
“It’s starting to be a percent of sales more than we expected,” he said in an interview with Cheddar.
Last month we re-opened our Bitcoin.com Store after some construction and a bit of hiatus. After a month of operation we’ve added even more to the store with hardware wallets, new t-shirts, Cryptomatic watches, and now we’re even selling Amazon gift cards.
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Circle Invest is set to add Zcash to its cryptocurrency trading portfolio. Circle, the payments startup firm announced this in a blog post on April 30. Zcash becomes the sixth cryptocurrency in the Circle Invest trading catalog.
The addition of Zcash is the first of many announcements scheduled for the next three weeks.
Hello, Zcash
. A new coin just joined the Circle Invest family, and it's available for you to buy right now. Learn more here: https://t.co/pR0y6T1H2K
— Circle Invest (@circleinvest) April 30, 2018
The European alternative banking app designed for the globally mobile generation, Revolut, has just secured a major infusion of capital. With the new funding at hand the startup will be expanding to new markets around the world and add new features such as support for BCH and XRP to its crypto service.
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London-based alternative digital banking startup Revolut has announced today it just raised a Series C investment round of $ 250 million meaning the company is now valued at $ 1.7 billion. The new round of funding was led by Hong-Kong based DST Global with existing investors Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital also participating.
