JUST IN: 🇳🇦 The Bank of Namibia has announced plans to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

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FUN FACT: In Portugal, Bitcoin and crypto is treated as a form of currency and is exempt from VAT and taxes. 🇵🇹

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FUN FACT: CoinMarketCap is now tracking over 500 exchanges & 18,700 cryptocurrencies

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JUST IN: Ripple XRP will be a founding sponsor of the Carnegie Mellon University Secure Blockchain Initiative.

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JUST IN: 69,000 BNB ($32,141,850) has been burned since the BEP-95 real-time burning upgrade was implemented.

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JUST IN: Axie Infinity hacker has so far laundered 7.5% of the stolen Ethereum using Tornado Cash.

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FUN FACT: 🇺🇸 40% of US crypto investors don’t know they are required to pay taxes according to a survey by CoinTracker.

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JUST IN: 🇪🇺 The EU Parliament has designated ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, as the top cryptocurrency regulator of the region.

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JUST IN: Axie Infinity creator, Sky Mavis, will use $450 million of its own money to replenish the cryptocurrency stolen in the Ronin hack.

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JUST IN: Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood says banks "are losing talent to crypto, so they're having to raise wages to attract talent, and they're losing business to DeFi."

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JUST IN: Shiba Inu burn rate has increased by 25,000% in the last 24h.

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FUN FACT: A total of 19 crypto billionaires have made it to the Forbes World's Billionaires list for 2022.

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FUN FACT: The United States is the world’s 1 destination for Bitcoin mining.

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JUST IN: Middle East largest delivery app, Careem (Uber Eats) is hiring a director of crypto for their Careem Pay.

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FUN FACT: Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Disney, Hulu and Bank of America are all hiring for crypto jobs right now.

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JUST IN: FIFA has filed 2 trademark applications for the World Cup mascot La'eeb for NFTs and the metaverse.

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JUST IN: 250 Bitcoin ($10.7 million USD) from the Satoshi era have moved for the first time in 12.4 years.

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JUST IN: Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary says Bitcoin will become the reserve currency of the earth.

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JUST IN: Mastercard has filed 15 trademark applications for NFTs and the metaverse.

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JUST IN: 🇮🇳 The Reserve Bank of India has announced plans to start testing and running pilot projects for Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

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