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Last week MinexPay distributed news about their partnership with ČSOB bank: https://medium.com/minecoin-blog/čsob-bank-partnership-the-roadmap-and-cards-shipping-update-8cc5a7372822 Turns out the bank itself is not aware of the partnership. This is the tweet the ČSOB bank reps have just…

Today I've had several unknown people contact me on Telegram and ask for help in withdrawing their Bitcoins from an exchange. This sounds way too suspicious to even consider to be legit, - these are all scammers or even chat bots serving scammers. I decided to talk to one of them, to see how…

In a desperate attempt to remain relevant the legacy media outlet Wall Street Journal awkwardly tries to exploit the cryptocurrency hype. WSJ reporter Steven Russolillo creates his own shitcoin - the WSJCoin, $WSJ. Shortly after his boss orders him to forget about it. The End.

After more than a year-long saga (1, 2, 3, 4) of delaying their cards release to the public, Crypto.com (formerly known as Monaco) has announced their next plans lately. Their MCO Visa cards will be shipped to Singapore first. Then they plan to distribute around 100K cards in Singapore over the…

UPDATE: This information appears to be false. Looks like MinexPay published a misleading announcement. https://twitter.com/CSOB_CZ/status/1049263516727873538 Following this CSOB tweet MinexPay were forced to release another announcement - we've analyzed it and put together a post with exact…

It's the end of the month which means we're analyzing Google search trends related to the query "Bitcoin". Click here to read the previous trends analysis for the month of August. Now that Bitcoin price has not fallen below 6K and started dancing a bit closer to 7K it seems that people started…

NAGA just released their prepaid crypto debit card, which is amazing news for crypto adoption! It's live, it's working and it can be ordered HERE. NAGA Card features: - Contactless MasterCard - IBAN Account connected to the NAGA ecosystem (trading, card, gaming etc.) - Multi-currency in USD,…

MinexPay, another ambitious contender for a working crypto debit card that's available worldwide, has just shifted the card shipment deadline even further. Minex CEO Boris Shulyaev  stated on Sepetember 11th, "We are 98% sure that cards will be sent out this month": MinexPay have bragged about over…

What is Presearch Presearch is a project that is built to supposedly put an end to Google's domination of search and internet gate-keeping. Presearch is (going to be) a "decentralized" search engine that will let users find better results for their queries and see less ads. What's more…

Cryptopay is one of the Bitcoin debit card providers that had their program terminated during the WaveCrest ban. During the year they've been looking for a solution to issue new cards and they seem to be approaching the release. Here's what Cryptopay support has told our staff via email:…

Wirex has released awesome news several days ago - Wirex received a Fintrac and Money Service Business registration to operate in Canada in August this year. Users in Canada can already take advantage of our secure Bitcoin, Litecoin, XRP and Ethereum wallets, low fees and fantastic exchange…

NAGA has released a riddling e-mail at the end of last week - all it had was an image of a plastic card, the date Sept 18th and #PaidWithNAGA hashtag. Benjamin Bilski, the founder of NAGA has given more details on Twitter in a video:…