The Australian Tennis Federation has entered into a partnership with the Decentraland platform. The Australian Open Grand Slam will be the first to be played in virtual reality. The Australian Open kicks off today, January 17th. Sports venues located in Melbourne, including the Rod Laver Arena and Grand Slam Park, were modeled on the Decentraland platform. Users will also have access to broadcasts of tennis matches and Australian Open radio. More than 300 video cameras

US payment company Visa conducted a survey of small businesses in nine advanced economies. It turned out that a quarter of entrepreneurs are ready to accept payments in cryptocurrencies already now, in 2022. Visa representatives interviewed representatives of 2,250 small companies with 100 employees or less in the US, Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Russia. According to the report on the results of the study, 24% of those

President of the American company Noll Historical Consulting Franklin Noll tried to prove with an example from the history of the US Treasury that cryptocurrencies can be recognized as both a means of payment and a security. The financial historian’s statement came in the wake of the ongoing debate about the status of cryptocurrencies. The final generally accepted answer to the question of whether a cryptocurrency is a security or not does not yet exist.

In October, ProShares launched the first U.S. Bitcoin futures ETF under the ticker BITO. A few days later, the amount of funds in the fund exceeded $ 1 billion, but now interest in it has decreased. The number of bitcoin futures in the fund as of January 11 was 4,904, which is equivalent to $ 1.16 billion. About the same amount was invested in BITO two days after launch, and in November the fund managed

According to a survey by the PaySafe payment system, 54% of cryptocurrency holders in the US and UK are confident in their future dominance as a global means of payment. Yesterday, the company published the results of its own research, according to which almost 60% of respondents expect an increase in the presence of cryptocurrencies in e-commerce in 2022. However, less than half of investors hope that offline stores will accept any of the cryptocurrencies

The Ministry of Economy of Georgia plans to solve the problem of miners using free electricity with the help of local self-government bodies of Svanetia and Energo-pro Georgia. In the Svaneti region of northwestern Georgia, the expansion of mining farms has led to protests by local residents. The miners use electricity that the authorities supply to high-mountain villages free of charge. As a result, the networks cannot cope with the load, which is why periodic

A power plant on the Poas River near the Costa Rican capital, San Jose, lost some of its profits during the pandemic when the government bought less electricity. The owner of the station found a use for unclaimed electricity. For thirty years, the plant operated without interruptions, but in the spring of 2020 the enterprise had to be closed for nine months, said the owner of the hydroelectric power station, Eduardo Cooper: “After a long

The Reserve Bank of India has formed a dedicated department that will deal with the development of the digital rupee and the creation of regulations for the regulation of the cryptocurrency industry. Ajay Kumar Choudhary has been appointed Executive Director of the new division, who will also lead the financial technology and risk monitoring departments of RBI. Now the Indian central bank is working on the creation of two types of digital rupee – for

The pilot version of the official digital yuan (e-CNY) wallet has become the most downloaded smartphone program in local mobile app stores. Launched in app stores on January 4, the digital yuan wallet became one of the most downloaded apps on Android and Apple devices in China the very next day, according to analytics platform App Annie. The number of downloads for the e-CNY wallet, which so far only operates in 11 cities, has exceeded

Dozens of clients of the Hong Kong-based trading platform Coinsuper have contacted the local police due to the fact that they have not been able to withdraw assets totaling $ 55,000 from the exchange since the end of November. Clients of the Coinsuper cryptocurrency exchange told the Hong Kong police that their assets were blocked by the site operator for some unknown reason. Dozens of affected users wrote on Telegram that they cannot close deposits