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Increased demand for cryptocurrency in 2021 triggered hiring sprees by various crypto startups and established companies around the globe

Block plans to improve BTC mining hardware, Visa committed itself again to a future in crypto, and Rio de Janeiro is diversifying its investments.

The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro announced that 1% of its treasury reserves will be stored in Bitcoin

Jack Dorsey’s Block (formally Square) has announced it’s working on new open source systems for Bitcoin mining to solve current problems faced by miners, as outlined by Thomas Templeton, Block’s General Manager for hardware.

Visa has partnered with blockchain software company ConsenSys to bridge the gap between central bank digital currencies and traditional finance.

The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Jerome Powell has said that the bank’s much-anticipated report on cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will be released in the coming weeks

Cryptocurrency crime levels are falling, but the number and success rate of scams remain doggedly high

The Associated Press news agency is launching a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace for its historic collection of photographs

This week in crypto: China Launches a wallet for digital yuan, Samsung launches NFT-friendly TVs and Bitcoin kicks off the year with ATH hashrate.

China has launched a pilot version of a wallet for its digital yuan

Samsung has revealed its new range of NFT-compatible TVs.

Data by Glassnode, an on-chain data company, shows that hashrates on the bitcoin network have reached a new record