Crypto news in January 2021
Online news articles, downloads, reports, opinion and commentary on cryptocurrency and digital currencies
We focus on digital currency and crypto news from the broad Asia-Pacific region wherever possible; but we also include a variety of rest-of-world crypto news items to provide Startup News Asia readers with new points of reference, food for thought, and a wider grasp of the opportunities – and issues – surrounding digital currencies.
Each news headline listed here deals with cryptocurrency in some way, and each headline is linked directly to the news item, report or platform associated with the headline.
- Download: “Crypto, What Is It Good For? An Overview of Cryptocurrency Use Cases” from the World Economic Forum (pdf)
- eToro survey finds some of the largest, most risk-averse asset managers – including pension funds and endowments – now looking at crypto as an asset class
- Cryptocurrency: A look at 6 developing trends likely to emerge in the crypto world in 2021, touching on 5G, taxation and more
- Download: Institutional Cryptoasset Trading – a report examining 5 essential areas of the crypto market that could impact institutional participation (pdf)
- Consensus, online event from CoinDesk, set for May 24-27, looking at all aspects of the evolution of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology
- China: 500 Limited online sports lottery service provider to issue near $14.4M worth of Class A ordinary shares in order to acquire bitcoin mining machines
- Hong Kong: Babel Finance making life easier for bitcoin miners and other crypto participants by accepting mining machines as collateral against USD loans
- Singapore Crypto Trading Summit set for January 27th
- The Ownership Economy: Cryptocurrency And The Next Frontier of Consumer Software
- China: Blockchain-based Service Network aiming for beta release of central bank digital currency in H2 2021, with intent to incorporate CBDCs from other nation-states
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