Crypto.Com Cuts Cro Visa Card Rewards, Algorand Partners With Fifa World Cup, Argentina’s Largest Private Bank Offers Bitcoin Trading

by Crypto University | May 3, 2022 | News, Weekly Recap

Crypto.com Cuts CRO VISA Card Rewards Crypto.com, a cryptocurrency exchange platform based in Singapore, announced that they were reducing rewards for CRO Visa cardholders, effective from the 1st of June. In a press release, they announced a reduction in CRO Card...

Wikipedia Foundation no Longer Accepts Crypto, Global Income Coin Provides Universal Basic Income, Buffet Bashes Bitcoin

by Crypto University | May 2, 2022 | News, Weekly Recap

Wikipedia Foundation no Longer Accepts Crypto, The Wikipedia Foundation will no longer accept Bitcoin as a donation. The decision is linked to environmental concerns and to the high volatility of the coin. The WMF started accepting cryptocurrency in 2014 in response...

Aave Founder Returns to Twitter After Permanent Ban, Crypto Added to Telegram by TON Stewards, and Ukrainian Government Accepts NFT Donations

by Lindi Miti | Apr 29, 2022 | News, Weekly Recap

Aave Founder Returns to Twitter After Permanent Ban Aave Founder, Stani Kulechov, returned to Twitter after receiving a permanent ban that lasted 15 hours. On Wednesday, Kulechov tweeted, “BREAKING: Joining Twitter as interim CEO.” Failing to see the humor...

Standard Chartered Bank Acquires Virtual Land at The Sandbox, Finland to Donate Seized Bitcoin to Ukraine, Sky Mavis Aims to be a Zero Trust Organization

by Crypto University | Apr 28, 2022 | News, Weekly Recap

Standard Chartered Bank, one of the largest banks in the world, has acquired virtual land at The Sandbox, a virtual world powered by blockchain technology. Their subsidiary, Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong (Ltd), partnered with The Sandbox. They aim to create a...

Fidelity Offers 401 (k) Investors Bitcoin, Binance Refugee Crypto Card for Ukrainians, and Fort Worth, Texas – The First City to Mine Bitcoin

by Crypto University | Apr 27, 2022 | News, Weekly Recap

Fidelity Offers 401 (k) Investors Access to Bitcoin Fidelity Investments, one of the largest retirement-plan providers, will offer investors the option to put bitcoin in their 401(k)s. They will be the first provider to offer Bitcoin for retirement savings. Fidelity...

Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Bored Ape Instagram Account Hacked, and Meta Plans to Open a Physical Store

by Lindi Miti | Apr 26, 2022 | News, Weekly Recap

Elon Musk Buys Twitter Elon Musk now owns Twitter. This comes after the company accepted his bid for $54.20 a share. The total amount of acquisition was $44B in cash. Upon the news, the price of DogeCoin, Elon’s favorite meme cryptocurrency, shot up by over 30%....