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Brazil Exceeds 1M Registered Crypto Users in July for First Time as Number Grows 68% in a Month
The figure excludes international exchanges, which aren’t obliged to disclose the information to the local tax authority.
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Solana Spaces is a set of retail venues that provide an immersive educational experience for people interested in the Solana blockchain and web3 (Solana Spaces)
Is Solana Leading Crypto Into Retail or Trailing Apple?
An “embassy” and smartphone is intended to bring Web3 into the real world.
Solana Spaces is a set of retail venues that provide an immersive educational experience for people interested in the Solana blockchain and web3 (Solana Spaces)

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Crypto News Roundup for July 12, 2022
With bitcoin dipping below $20K plus a look at decentralization's limits in sanctioned nations like Iran, CoinDesk’s “Markets Daily” is back with the latest news roundup.
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Half of Latin Americans Have Used Cryptocurrencies, Mastercard Survey Shows
Fifty-one percent of consumers in Latin America made at least one transaction with cryptocurrencies.
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Bank of America Survey Shows Consumers Aren’t Done With Crypto Yet
Results show growing interest in the use of cryptocurrencies as a payment method
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Fed Survey: 12% of US Adults Held Crypto in 2021
It marks crypto’s first appearance in the central bank’s “Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households” survey.
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El Salvador's President Promotes Bitcoin Adoption by Emerging Countries
Nayib Bukele is hosting financial representatives from 44 developing economies at the Alliance for Financial Inclusion's annual meeting.
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Six of 10 Salvadorans Quit Using the Chivo Wallet After Getting the Bitcoin Incentive, Study Finds
“Most users who used Chivo after spending the $30 bonus do not engage with the app intensively,” the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research reported.
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Lightning Payments Come to Mobile Games, Fueling Bitcoin Adoption
THNDR CEO Des Dickerson sees gaming as fertile ground for layer 2 payments and a big avenue for bringing new Bitcoiners into the fold. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Payment...
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JPMorgan: ‘Bitcoin Shows Some Merit as a Store of Value’
The TradFi giant has launched not one but two monthly research reports.
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