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German authorities have learned about crypto recovery the hard way. A recent case saw them seize over $60 million worth of Bitcoin from a fraudster….who never gave them the private key to the stash. Not your keys, on your coins A private key is a sophisticated form of cryptography that allows a user to access […]

One of Germany’s oldest banks said it was choosing the Stellar network to issue a Euro-backed stablecoin, in one of the first such instances. As per an official announcement on Wednesday, Bankhaus von der Heydt (BDNH) said it would launch the EURB stablecoin on the Stellar network this week. The development is a result of […]

Crypto.com is temporarily suspending its Europe and U.K. issuances of MCO debit cards after its former card operator — Germany’s Wirecard AG — slipped into bankruptcy and filed insolvency this week. The Hong Kong-based company will now find a new card operator to commence its card business again — one of the largest in the […]

Bitcoin-pegged institutional trading products like ETFs and futures have been a running theme since 2016. However, the road has proven difficult, with regulators and lawmakers impeding most of such developments. But Germany’s forward-thinking financial sector seems to have embraced such products. The country’s stock exchange will now list a BTC-pegged exchange-traded fund (ETF), after a […]

Supercomputers across Europe fell victim to a widespread and seemingly coordinated cybersecurity attack last week, getting hit with the illicit installation of malware focused on mining Monero (XMR). German supercomputers most affected Supercomputers in Germany, Spain, and Switzerland, confirmed infections via individual reports last week. All instances had a few details in common — such […]

The federal parliament of Germany has drafted a bill that, if enacted, will allow banks to become custodians and merchants of cryptocurrency in 2020, German business newspaper Handelsblatt reported Wednesday. The move represents a bombshell milestone in adoption and could, in theory, make crypto as liquid as cash in the world’s fourth-largest economy. The new […]

On Oct. 21, 2019, representatives from Agoric, Tendermint, FOAM, and oscoin gathered at Full Node in Berlin, Germany, to discuss the blockchain space’s current need for interoperability protocols. Although technical in nature, hashing out an inter-blockchain communication standard is as critical as the TCP/IP model was for the Internet. Pundits of both IBC, Cosmos’ interoperability […]

The IOTA community was able to help gather enough evidence to allow authorities to catch an alleged hacker who stole over $11 million MIOTA tokens in early 2018. The suspect was apprehended by German Police and Europol at the end of January. IOTA said in a blog post that it was “proud to see collaboration between […]

Institutional acceptance of cryptocurrency is gaining steam as Germany’s second largest stock exchange announces development of a crypto trading platform. Sowa Labs — a fintech subsidiary of Börse Stuttgart — announced last week a crypto trading app under the name Bison. Etwas Großes ist im Anmarsch. Entdecke die erste App für den Handel mit Kryptowährungen […]

In a move to promote innovation within an otherwise low-lying industry, the German National Tourism Board (GNTB) has recently announced the incorporation of crypto assets into its framework for regular service payments. The GNTB announced that travelers, both local and international, now have full freedom to pay for their sojourns in Bitcoin and other popular […]

With the IoT market expanding at an impressive rate, the need for platform interoperability has touched an all-time high. IOTA provides businesses with a scalable framework which converts technological resources into valuable assets that can then be traded on an open market. The technology which drives IOTA is Tangle — a block-less distributed ledger that […]