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Stacked, the rebranded Lightning Pay, has emerged as one of the few remaining non-custodial Bitcoin platforms in New Zealand after a wave of mergers and shutdowns. The company today launched a self-custodial Lightning wallet built on Breez and Spark SDKs, enabling users to receive Bitcoin directly into their own wallets and pay utility bills or rent via Open Banking.

The KiwiSaver Growth Strategy fund, part of New Zealand’s retirement savings program, has allocated 5 percent of its money to bitcoin.

New Zealand’s Māori haven’t held economic sovereignty in the past or today. But does Bitcoin offer a chance to change the future?

A public ruling integrates crypto assets as legal and taxable forms of payment in New Zealand.

Defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia has received interim protection for user account data stored in Arizona.

The founder of defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia, which shut down following a hack in January 2019, has launched a new exchange called Assetylene.

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase has announced that it will be expanding its crypto-to-crypto trading service to more countries.

“It should get us to a more equitable place where it’s not just the high net worth people ... who are making the big money — it should democratize that space.

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