German TV Calls Bitcoin ‘Digital Gold’
Well known publicly owned German TV channel, Das Erste, recently aired a full feature report on the digital currency bitcoin, referring to it as ‘digital gold.’ In the broadcast television show, Das Erste produces a detailed report on bitcoin and how people within Germany are using the currency to pay for everyday items. An interview with Martijn Wismijer, who is well known for having his bitcoin wallet implemented via a chip in his hand, sees him demonstrating its use to the reporter. In the report, he states: I’ve had a chip implant since 2014. You can hardly see it, but here is the....
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One of Germany’s oldest and well known publicly owned television channels Das Erste recently aired a full featured news report on bitcoin, referring to the cryptocurrency as “digital gold.” A German Reporter Learns that Bitcoin Gives Individuals a Banking Choice, Being Your Own Bank. In a recently broadcast television show a Das Erste reporter provides....
Article updated on August 19th at 14:31 (BST). The German ministry of finance (Bundesministerium der Finanzen) has officially recognised bitcoin, mentioning the digital currency in a reply to an inquiry in parliament. "The German Ministry of Finance does not classify bitcoins as e-money or as a functional currency, they cannot be regarded as a foreign currency. Nevertheless they have to be subsumed under the German term of 'Rechnungseinheit' as a financial instrument," Martin Chaudhuri, of Bundesministerium der Finanzen, told CoinDesk. German news website Die Welt reports Member of....
Galaxy Digital’s billionaire CEO told CNBC he’s shocked at the speed of cryptocurrency adoption. Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz believes Bitcoin (BTC) is on track to meet or exceed gold’s market capitalization amid a rapid wave of retail and institutional adoption of the digital asset. In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, Novogratz said cryptocurrency “adoption’s happening much faster than I predicted,” adding that “it’s shocking to me how fast people are moving into the system.”Novogratz, who has been involved in Bitcoin since 2013 when the digital currency was valued at around....
So the news that Austrian digital currency start-up Coinimal had added a new bank transfer service to its platform hit press today via a Reddit post from the company. The company has added GIROPAY to its instant payment offerings - a German-based Internet payment system. The system is the most popular method of transacting online in Germany, and is a step forward for both bitcoin space as a whole and the digital currency environment in Austria. From the post: Hey guys, We, https://coinimal.com, have added GIROPAY, the German instant bank transfer service to our platform. Austria has been....
PEY, the German bitcoin payment solutions company is using Bitpay's bitcoin payroll API to provide payroll service to t3n. We can send funds across the world using bitcoin, we can also use it to pay for goods and services and we can also trade it against other currencies and commodities. When we can do all these things with bitcoin, why can’t we just get paid in the same digital form which we can spend comfortably? Actually, we can. There are many such services that allow companies to pay their employees’ salaries in bitcoin. It is just a matter of adoption and not many companies have....