Paraguay Considers Adopting Bitcoin as Tender.

Paraguay might be the first country after El Salvador to make bitcoin a legal tender, per a Thursday report from The Cryptonomist.

The news in Paraguay comes after the country's largest entertainment holding company, Grupo Cinco, announced that it would begin accepting cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether as payment.

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Solana on-chain development increases after a recent DDoS attack

Solana’s daily GitHub submission has spiked after a recent DDoS attack. Solana — whose native crypto, SOL, is the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization — is leading on-chain development charts despite a recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

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European Gas Prices Jump as Supply Crunch Risks Extending to NEXT Winter (Bloomberg)

European gas prices surged as much as 5.9% Tuesday after closing at a record level on Monday - with tensions between Russia and Ukraine threatening to extend this year’s crunch into next winter.

Europe was already facing an energy supply shortage before geopolitical tensions flared up, a move that could further delay the start of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Benchmark European gas prices traded in the Netherlands jumped to €122.92 a megawatt-hour, the highest since early October, when prices ballooned as much as 40% in just one day.

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JUST IN - U.S. producer price inflation jumps 9.6% year over year in November, much higher than expected and the highest increase on record.

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GERMANY: Under the name @FriedlichZusammen (peaceful together) largest Freedom Demonstration for the saturday 18th of dec., at the Brandenburger Tor (starting 12h) in Berlin expected!

The people of Berlin and Germany want to show that they are united and can’t and do not want to be divided by any discrimination like the vaccines-mandates is.
#FriedlichZusammen

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Shiba Inu (SHIB) will now be available as a payment option at over 40,000 merchants as part of the Flexa Payment Network.

Shiba Inu will now be available as a payment option at over 40,000 merchants that are part of the Flexa Payment Network.

The Flexa Payment Network is a merchant-focused entity designed to simplify spending cryptocurrencies at physical merchants by simplifying the complexities of on-chain validation.

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Myanmar’s Exiled Government Declares Tether Official Currency

Shutterstock image by Martin M303. Key Takeaways Myanmar's exiled government has declared Tether's dollar-backed stablecoin, USDT, the country's official currency.

On Facebook declaring the Myanmar kyat-the currency issued by Myanmar's central bank-invalid and constituting Tether's dollar-backed stablecoin as legal tender instead. The NUG is an exiled government led by the jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Russia is tightening crypto regulations and calling for a complete ban.

Russia is tightening crypto regulations and calling for a complete ban.

The group will hope to do what many of its predecessors failed to do: break the impasse between pro-business forces in government and voice calls for an outright Chinese-style ban on anything related to crypto.

"We have introduced a ban on the use of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. But as for the problem of banning other crypto-related activities, this is a more difficult and controversial topic."

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Shocking Investigation into US Lawmakers Reveals Hypocrisy & Personal Finance Shame

A five-month long Insider investigation has reviewed thousands of financial-disclosure reports for every sitting lawmaker in Congress.

Here are some of the key findings from 'Conflicted Congress' broken down:

▪️48 Congress members & 182 congressional staffers violated federal conflicts-of-interest law

▪️75 federal lawmakers held stocks in Moderna, Johnson & Johnson or Pfizer in the early weeks of the pandemic

▪️15 lawmakers responsible for US defense policy actively invested in military contractors

▪️Some “environmentally-minded” Democrats are heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry

▪️Members who run down the media, were revealed to pour money into at least one of the US’ largest news media or social media companies

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JUST IN - U.S. Senate votes 50-49 to raise the debt limit by staggering $2.5 TRILLION, bypassing a GOP filibuster as part of a "deal struck by congressional leaders."

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JUST IN - U.S. Federal Reserve keeps interest rates at 0.00% to 0.25%, removes "transitory" to describe inflation.

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BBVA Switzerland becomes the first traditional bank in Europe to add Ethereum to its crypto offering

he Swiss division of the Spanish banking giant, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), recently expanded its crypto offering, announcing the addition of Ethereum to the bank’s investment portfolio.

BBVA Switzerland made its Bitcoin trading and custody service available to all its private banking clients back in June. By expanding its initial crypto offer, BBVA Switzerland became the first traditional bank in Europe to include Ethereum into its service.

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Bitcoin price slips below $47K as stocks, crypto prepare for this week’s FOMC meeting

Bitcoin bulls are once again on the defensive foot after the breakout momentum that put the price above $50,000 on the weekend evaporated and pulled the price under $47,000.

While this latest downturn is testing the will of many traders who hold out hope that this is just another shakeout before the price heads higher, cryptocurrency analyst and pseudonymous Twitter user CryptoCapo offered some hope after posting the following chart comparing the current price action to the price dump that was seen back in September.

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🚨 5 days left to Satoshi‘s Comeback!

The Many Facts That Indicate Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Will Come in 10 Days Again!

On January 3, 2022, the Bitcoin network will be celebrating its 13th year of life after its creator Satoshi Nakamoto kick-started the protocol. However the mysterious creator of Bitcoin wrote recently in his @OfficialSatoshi telegram channel that he‘ll be back with something big on dec. 21st 2021!

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Bitcoin price dip may end Wednesday as Bitfinex bids hint at Fed ‘buy the news’ plans

Bitfinex traders are betting on some upside following Wednesday’s Federal Reserve comments on inflation and asset purchases. Bitcoin (BTC) could see its last day of downside as buyers line up to cash in on Wednesday’s United States Federal Reserve meeting. On Dec. 14, bids began increasing on major exchange Bitfinex in a conspicuous sign that the market believes BTC/USD is destined to gain.

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JUST IN - Bank of England raises interest rate from 0.1% to 0.25%.

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