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November 11, 2022 06:35 AM IST The other countries are Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Honduras, and Nepal, according to a document filed Thursday by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The action means their temporary protected status (TPS) will no longer expire on Dec. 31, 2022 as previously scheduled.
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September 15, 2022 02:08 PM IST El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's government spent more than $100 million on buying bitcoins which are now worth less than $50 million.
- June 17, 2022 06:01 PM IST
Says, the project conflicts with the country’s existing laws; won’t sign the bill without additional anti-money laundering rules
- May 13, 2022 07:10 PM IST
The world’s first Bitcoin City is coming along beautifully. Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, took to social media to share the design of the first Bitcoin city.
- May 12, 2022 07:57 AM IST
The cryptocurrency is a poor substitute for cash in an inflationary environment
- March 23, 2022 09:54 AM IST
In the rupee terms, Bitcoin jumped 2.84 percent to trade at Rs 33,18,780 while Ethereum rose 3.08 percent to Rs 2,34.506.5
- March 07, 2022 03:46 PM IST
Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele inaugurated a veterinary hospital that, he says, was financed with the profits obtained after the establishment of bitcoin as legal currency in the country.
- February 04, 2022 08:16 AM IST
A daily round-up of the most interesting articles on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether to help you jump-start the day
- February 02, 2022 09:04 AM IST
A daily round-up of the most interesting articles on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether to help you jump-start the day
- January 26, 2022 09:52 AM IST
The global lender’s board “urged the authorities to narrow the scope of the Bitcoin law by removing Bitcoin’s legal tender status,” the IMF said in a statement Tuesday.
- January 24, 2022 08:34 AM IST
Cardano rose 0.59 percent to Rs 88.71 and Avalanche surged 2.09 percent to Rs 5,105. Polkadot fell 2.64 percent to Rs 1,475.01 and Litecoin rose 1.28 percent to Rs 8,942.81 over the last 24 hours. Tether rose 0.13 percent to Rs 82.51.
- January 16, 2022 09:23 AM IST
While decentralised finance (DeFi) accounted for 16.08 percent of the trading volume at $9.92 billion, stablecoins made up 78.10 percent at $48.16 billion. Bitcoin's market dominance dipped 0.06 percent to 39.55 percent and it was trading at $42,990.42 today morning.
- January 14, 2022 02:47 PM IST
The company has a distribution network of over 200 touchpoints, including five company-owned showrooms, 15 dealerships, 85 retail and 26 spare part outlets and service centres across 14 cities in El Salvador, Hero MotoCorp said in a regulatory filing.
- January 13, 2022 09:35 PM IST
Given that bitcoin saw a brutal start to 2022, touching new lows and registering an overall decline of 17.5 percent over the last few weeks, the present total value of the bitcoins held by the Salvadorean government would be worth $59 million.
- January 13, 2022 04:51 PM IST
According to the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Access Now, two cybersecurity watchdogs that analyzed the phones of El Faro’s employees, the spyware had been installed on the phones of 22 reporters, editors and other employees between July 2020 and November 2021.
- December 25, 2021 08:15 PM IST
The three are among at least 17 Salvadoran women activists consider unjustly convicted and imprisoned following obstetric emergencies and who have been at the center of a campaign against El Salvador's absolute law against abortions.
- November 26, 2021 10:26 AM IST
Governor Andrew Bailey said Bitcoin is “too volatile” and the Bank of England is studying whether to create its own digital currency
- November 25, 2021 03:08 PM IST
As India takes steps towards regulating or even banning cryptocurrencies, we take a look at the regulations adopted by countries around the world.
- November 22, 2021 11:21 AM IST
The country, where Bitcoin was made legal tender in September, plans to build the world's first "Bitcoin City".
- November 21, 2021 09:41 PM IST
El Salvador, which has used the US dollar for two decades, was the first country in the world to legalize bitcoin as legal tender.
- October 10, 2021 09:47 AM IST
Bitcoin lost almost 10% of its value on September 9, after the Central American nation became the first worldwide to authorize the cryptocurrency as legal tender. But it has surged more than 30% in the past week to its highest levels since May.
- October 02, 2021 12:00 PM IST
Bitcoin mining has come under fire for the massive carbon footprint as most of this electricity used is derived from fossil fuels
- September 25, 2021 10:19 PM IST
With 6.6 billion dollars worth of investments already made in crypto assets by Indian retail investors, the Indian market is at the cusp of exponential growth. It is expected to grow 2X faster, and has the potential to create more than 800,000 jobs by 2030, currently providing around 50,000 jobs in this space.
- September 20, 2021 06:41 PM IST
"We just bought dip," Nayib Bukele tweeted late on Sunday, referring to a recent slump in bitcoin prices.
- September 08, 2021 01:03 PM IST
Just before the steep fall, Bitcoin had hit its highest price since May at $52,000, while Ethereum traded close to $4,000. Dogecoin had also touched $0.31 per token.
