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📍The activity within the exchanges and cryptocurrency exchange houses has explosive growth after Bitcoin break the resistance of $10.500 USD and exceed $11.000 per unit, according to figures shown by GlassNode.
Source: GlassNode
📍The recent increase in the value of Bitcoin and the confirmation of an upward trend for the market-leading cryptocurrency, is leading several experts to consider Bitcoin as a safe and stable haven of value for users and investors. According to Nigel Green, CEO and founder of deVere Group, an international financial consulting firm, recent activity in Bitcoin is a positive indication that the cryptocurrency is a stable and secure haven of value, living up to its namesake as the Gold 2.0 or digital gold.
📍The main fixed and mobile network operator in Austria, A1 Austrian Telekom, announced the integration of several cryptocurrencies, in payment systems for their services. Now the company's services can be paid through cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Dash y Ethereum. Likewise, the company pointed out that when users and retailers pay for their services with digital assets, these are converted into euros in real time. It is expected that in the future the company will add more cryptocurrencies to its payment options.
📍Mainframe, a plataform DeFi for loans based on blockchain, announced the acquisition of the financial lending protocol hourglass, which was designed to transmit tokens in real time. Sablier, which is based on the Ethereum blockchain, has the potential to create tokenized debt markets similar to digital bonds, so through this protocol, Mainframe seeks to bring the bond market into DeFi ecosystems.
📍Meanwhile in Venezuela, citizens' options to buy and sell cryptocurrencies are expanding. Now Cryptobuyer, a Panama-based cryptocurrency exchange, added the option to Interbank Mobile Payment, so that Venezuelans can buy and sell cryptocurrencies using their phone numbers.
📍In the United States, although the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has no plans to issue a CBDC digital currency in the near future, the bank's Vice President of the Secure Payments Group, Robert Bench, if announced that are working based on this technology, as it could positively advance the mission of the Federal Reserve system.
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