Disclaimer: The text below is a sponsored article that was not written by Cryptonews.com journalists. Cryptocurrencies have been all over the news lately. This is largely due to their wild price fluctuations. However, what seems to be forgotten amongst all the talk of all-time highs and 60% corrections is that you can actually use them to buy things with. You know, like a currency? Every year the list of retailers prepared to accept payment in some form of cryptocurrency is expanding too. Today...

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Adoption news Long lines are reportedly forming at Venezuelan stores that accept Petro (PTR) pay, reports Venezuelan media outlet Panorama. The news outlet published photographs of what it says are customers queuing up to spend their state-issued, oil-backed tokens at some of what Caracas claims are the 4,300+ stores nationwide th...

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Adoption news Contestants taking part in the Argentinian edition of TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? were quizzed on their knowledge of cryptocurrencies. Per Criptotendencia, two contestants were asked to state which of the following four was not a cryptocurrency: Petro (PTR), Bitcoin (BTC), Vencum or Ethererum (ETH). T...

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Blockchain news Alibaba subsidiary and AliPay operator Ant Financial has announced that its enterprise blockchain platform will move out of beta testing and go live in February. Per a report published by Bihal23, Guofei Jiang, Ant Financial’s vice president, has stated that the new platform will allow small firms and micro-enterpr...

After YouTube's attack on crypto-related videos that lasted for several days, forcing quite a few creators into hiding for self-preservation, now the Google-owned giant says it wasn't intentional, followed by the YouTubers' return from exile. YouTube has finally provided a response to the situation and to individual channels, following days of silence and speculations about the reason behind platform's striking the videos as harmful and dangerous. Hey there, this was an error on our side during ...

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. M&A news Voyager Digital Canada, the operator of U.S. digital asset broker Voyager and the Ethos Universal Wallet, said it has agreed to acquire Circle Invest, the retail digital asset business, from Circle, a company behind the popular USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin. This transaction adds more than 40,000 retail accounts to Voyager'...