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Blockchain This Week – Robinhood, Crypto Recovery, Bitcoin and Twitter’s Future, Bitcoin-Backed Loans, Coca Cola’s Friendship Day NFTs

This week’s newsletter covers Robinhood’s IPO, Tesla’s and Twitter’s earnings in context of Bitcoin, Bitcoin as collateral for loans, Shopify becoming an NFT platform, among others. It also includes news on Coca Cola’s unique NFTs commemorating friendships.
In that spirit, I want to thank all my reader friends for your loyal readership. Hope you continue to enjoy reading my posts!!

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Blockchain This Week – Countries Chasing CBDC, Carbon Offsets, Wine, and Insurance on Blockchain, BlockFi, Steve Jobs and NFT

Several countries are either mulling over or are in various phases of their CBDC pilots. Steve Jobs applied for a job two years before starting Apple, and this week, it made news in the NFT world. Alongside, everything from carbon offsets to wine to crop insurance is arriving on Blockchain. These and many more are on this week’s newsletter.

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Blockchain This Week – Blockchain, Crypto and Social Good, CBDC and Blockchain Investments

This week, Blockchain and cryptocurrencies were recommended for several initiatives for the betterment of societies. Several countries are taking an interest in CBDC and Blockchain and are actively investing in them. These and many more in this week’s newsletter.

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Blockchain This Week – Indian Banks, Media Mughals, MicroStrategy, El Salvador, World Wide Web, Titan

El Salvador is looking for partners to help it establish Bitcoin as legal tender. Fifteen banks form a Blockchain consortium. WWW code is sold as an NFT. DeFi is being used for crowdsourcing. These and many more in this week’s newsletter.

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Blockchain This Week – El Salvador Legalizes Bitcoin, UNICEF Bolsters Blockchain Startups, Square Targets Green Mining

El Salvador became the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. UNICEF invests in Blockchain firms that work on financial inclusion. Bitcoin mining is increasingly becoming responsibly sustainable and green. These and many others in this week’s newsletter.

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Blockchain This Week – Green Blockchain Deals, Governments and Crypto, Crypto Rollercoaster

There is a lot of debates happening around the environmental impact of crypto. Meanwhile, several green initiatives are also commencing in the crypto space. This week’s newsletter explores some of these along with news on how various governments are dealing with crypto regulations in their respective countries.

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Blockchain This Week – A Week of Altcoins, Crypto Follows Where Musk Goes

Elon Musk Tweets, Doge Leaps, Bitcoin Retreats Tesla Rescinds Bitcoin Payments Only weeks after announcing that customers can buy Tesla with Bitcoin, Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and “technoking,” tweeted the … Continue reading Blockchain This Week – A Week of Altcoins, Crypto Follows Where Musk Goes

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Blockchain This Week – Ether, Dogecoin to the Moon, WallStreetBets, Internet Computer

It is a 50!!!! Today’s newsletter is the 50th in the series. It feels as if I just started writing this newsletter, and a year has just passed by.
It has been yet another exciting week in the world of Blockchain and crypto. Here are the salient developments of this week in today’s newsletter.