Summary:
- Nearly a half of the best universities in the world conducts crypto courses
- Two Indian local governments will create birth certificates using blockchain technology
- The new cryptocurrency taxation draft has been published in Poland
The cryptocurrency market has increased its capitalization over the recent hours. The two largest cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Ethereum, have experienced gains around 2-3%. However, Wednesday’s trading has started equivocally. On Wednesday morning, the capitalization of the whole cryptocurrency market stays a little above the $230 billion mark whereas the market capitalization of the most popular cryptocurrency sits slightly above $120 billion. Today’s newsflow concerns the new idea of Indian local govts, a crypto-related report about universities and students and the new concept for cryptocurrency taxation in Poland.
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Open account Try demo Download mobile app Download mobile appLet’s start with the new Coinbase’s survey. According to this survey, nearly a half of the world’s best universities offers courses related to cryptocurrencies or blockchain. More precisely, 42% of top 50 universities all over the world conduct such courses. What’s interesting, these courses are organized in miscellaneous subjects including, anthropology and finance. The best results within the above-mentioned fifty universities are achieved by the Stanford University (ten courses) and the Cornell University (nine courses). Will crypto courses gain popularity in less prestigious universities as well? Given the increasing role of cryptocurrencies all over the world, it seems to be likely.
BITCOIN has broken the $7000 handle, but it has settled down around this price level. The most famous digital currency is trading a notch below $7075 at press time. Source: xStation5
Two Indian local municipalities, Bankura Municipal Corporation and Durgapur Municipal Corporation, will create birth certificates using blockchain technology. The new system is developed by Lynked.world (a Dutch blockchain company). Thanks to this system, the two West Bengal’s municipalities will be able to issue not only birth certificates, but also other legal documents and certificates. Today’s report from India is another one concerning virtual certificates in the world. Let us remind that earlier we wrote about a similar story taking place in the Bahamas.
RIPPLE has approached its probable resistance area around $0.35, and it has gone down lately. On today’s morning, the cryptocurrency sits in the vicinity of the $0.34 handle. Source: xStation5
The last piece of news comes from Poland where a new cryptocurrency taxation draft has been published on the governmental website. One could notice that this crypto-related draft uses some types of taxes being already present in the Polish tax system. The new proposal could clarify the crypto backdrop in Poland. The new Polish crypto draft is expected to come into effect as soon as next year.
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