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BitPanda Secures Virtual Asset Service Provider License in Norway, Pioneering European Exchange

BitPanda already holds a license in Austria, Germany, France, the Czech Republic and Sweden.

Bitcoin mining lands another green energy data center as global powerhouse GDA sets up shop in Sweden.

With a comically loud horn, a candy machine and a jukebox filled with Mozart, metal and more, it‘s the "Bitcoin Ambassadors" rally car adventure.

The pro-Bitcoin nonprofit says it will flag potential civil liberty concerns as more countries are expected to develop CBDC technology.

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International regulation may be too slow and may represent interests that are not in line with Norway’s, Norges Bank suggests in an annual report.

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Yoav Soffer, the advisor to the deputy governor and CBDC project manager, spoke at Tel Aviv FinTech Week, explaining how a recent CBDC experiment proved efficient in cross-border transactions.

The model explored in Project Icebreaker would offer retail users the best foreign-exchange rates and faster transactions while allowing central banks to keep almost total control of their currencies.

The economic crime unit said it is the biggest crypto seizure ever made by Norwegian police.

At this point, the test network for the Norwegian CBDC uses not the public Ethereum ecosystem, but a private version of the enterprise blockchain Hyperledger Besu.