The American Cancer Society, a nonprofit organization, has begun accepting bitcoins as donations to expand funding opportunities for its research. BitPay will become the operator of cryptocurrency payments for NPOs.
Youtube has blocked Vitalik Buterin’s video in which he answers questions about the Ethereum roadmap as “dangerous content” containing “regulated goods”. In response to this, the creator of Ethereum wrote: “It looks like we need an alternative to Youtube.”
The Cointelegraph online edition dedicated to cryptocurrencies ranked the most profitable altcoins of 2019. The most effective token was called Synthetix (SNX), which added 3300% to the price over the year, followed by ChainLink (LINK) with 360% and Tezos with 195%.
Unknown bought Casascius gold bar, which is the physical equivalent of 100 bitcoins and released in 2013. The cost of the bullion at the current exchange rate of the first cryptocurrency is more than $ 700,000.
In the Gardza-Tibet Autonomous Region of China, they want to limit cryptocurrency mining due to the drought that has come. Local authorities will attend a meeting in Sichuan, where regulators will discuss measures to limit energy consumption by mining farms.
Shenzhen City Stock Exchange launched an index of 50 blockchain companies. Firms are included in it in accordance with their average daily market value, adjustment occurs twice a year.
Three large exchanges received 204,500 ETH (about $ 25.5 million) yesterday, December 25, of which 91,999 ETH were sent to Kraken. Analysts attribute this to the activities of one of the whales: an Ethereum developer supported by Vitalik Buterin, or the creator of Ethereum himself.
Binance Exchange has added support for Visa payment cards for users who want to buy cryptocurrency. A card can be tied to an account and paid with bitcoins (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP) and BNB.
The Huobi Exchange division in Japan will receive an investment of 500 million yen (about $ 4.6 million) from the local financial company Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings.