Brazilian wine club known as Wine is accepting bitcoin as payment on its mobile application and hopes to extend functionality to desktop and mobile sites.
Russia’s Federal Tax Service proposed a change to the “On Digital Currency” legislation allowing entities to accept bitcoin as payment in foreign trade.
The International Monetary Fund published a report detailing how Bitcoin disrupts the world order, enables sovereignty amid sanctions, and demands regulatory action.
Silvergate saw customers deposit an average of $14.7 billion worth of bitcoin and cryptocurrency to the firm’s platform during the first quarter of this year.
Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Advisor for Allianz, took an interview with CNBC to discuss the rising price of bitcoin, inflation rates, and possible recession.