Crypto Stories: How Bitcoin helped a couple start a family

Bitcoin (BTC) gains helped “Noodle,” a London-based Bitcoiner, to afford in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for his family. Noodle’s story comes to life in the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s Crypto Stories. IVF treatments can be expensive, with success rates ranging from 4% to 38%, depending on various factors. Fortunately, profits from buying and holding Bitcoin […]
British investment managers call for the blockchain-traded funds' approval
The Investment Association, a trade body representing British investment managers, is speeding up the local government and financial regulators to approve blockchain-traded funds with digital tokens substituting traditional shares. As the Financial Times reported on Thursday, the trade body is pushing the government to establish a new class of funds employing blockchain technology and create […]
Floki Inu resumes controversial ad blitz in London

Dogecoin rival Floki Inu has begun what it calls an “aggressive” marketing campaign in London, plastering advertisements around the city’s train stations and on its famous red buses. Floki Inu announced the new campaign in an April 23 blog noting that “the people’s cryptocurrency” will start advertising on the side of 100 buses and on […]
UK air traffic tech firm uses Hedera Hashgraph to track drones

Hedera’s public ledger consensus service was recently used to “gather, store, and order” millions of data points in a drone data trial sponsored by the United Kingdom government. As per an announcement, Hedera worked with Neuron Innovations, a London-based aviation technology company, to trial safe sharing of long-distance airspace by commercial, military, and government drones. […]
London assembly member calls for ban on crypto ads in trains and buses

Sian Berry, former co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and current member of the London Assembly, is looking to crack down on crypto advertisements on public transport. According to a Sunday Twitter post, Berry said she would be recommending the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, ban all crypto advertising in the city’s […]
Cointelegraph Consulting: Measuring the effects of the London hard fork

The much-talked-about Ethereum hard fork finally went live on Aug. 5 after block 12,965,000 was mined. Dubbed “London,” the software upgrade will bring together significant alterations in Ethereum’s code. Overall, the code changes target improvements to the network’s transaction fee market, user experience and much more. London comes with five Ethereum Improvement Protocols (EIP), with […]
Ethereum’s London hard fork sets ETH on a more deflationary path

The London hard fork of Ethereum, which went live on Aug. 5, ushered in a new era for the transition to Ethereum 2.0, a complete proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain. In fact, the London upgrade is the penultimate step on the way to the final transition to PoS scheduled sometime in 2022. The upgrade got triggered almost […]