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This Man Sold His House for Bitcoin in 2017—Now He Can Buy 25 Homes
19.12.2024
This week, as bitcoin soared to a record-breaking $108,364, Didi Taihuttu, the Dutch man who famously sold his house and nearly all his belongings for bitcoin (BTC) in 2017, shared a post on social media to reflect on the decision. $300K to $10M: How One Family’s ‘Adventurous’...
Chinese Ride Sharing Giant Didi Chuxing Rolls out Digital Yuan Services
27.10.2023
China’s ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing has unveiled a new digital yuan service that will let citizens in 250 parts of the nation use their CBDC coins to rent motorcycles. Per the Xi’an Business News Network, the move involves the Didi Chuxing affiliate Didi Qingjue, which operates...
Bitcoin Family Says They Are Moving $1M in Crypto to Decentralized Exchanges After FTX Collapse
1.12.2022
In October 2017, Netherlands native Didi Taihuttu and his family sold all their valuable belongings and their house for bitcoin. The decision paid off and the Taihuttu family has traveled all around the world and recently moved to the island of Phuket. On Nov. 30, the 44-year-old Didi Taihuttu told...
Didi Taihuttu Discusses Hiding His Cold Storage Wallets After Selling Everything for Bitcoin 3 Years Ago
13.8.2021
Over three years ago, a Netherlands native made headlines when he told the world he and his minimalist family sold everything for bitcoin. At that time, Didi Taihuttu and his family sold their home, valuables, and vehicles in order to accumulate the digital asset. Taihuttu recently discussed...
Two Blockchain-Based Digital Identity Projects Are Being Developed in Argentina
4.8.2021
Two blockchain-based digital identity projects are being developed in different regions of Argentina, with different objectives. One of them is directed to improve government-citizen relationships, facilitating these interactions in Misiones. The other one seeks to improve financial inclusion...
Chinese Bank Employees Told to Entice 300 Customers to Use the Digital Yuan
7.7.2021
In mid-May, a report stemming from residents in Shenzhen, China explained that the digital yuan wasn’t seeing widespread participation, which the Chinese government has alluded to in many press releases. Now a handful of China’s state-owned banks have asked staff to recruit 200 to...
China’s Giant Ride-Hailing Service Didi to Pilot the Central Bank’s Digital Yuan
9.7.2020
The Chinese government and the country’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), are currently in the midst of testing a digital yuan or central bank digital currency (CBDC). Now the Chinese ride-hailing corporation Didi Chuxing will be trialing the newly developed digital yuan...
Blockchain Bites: DiDi to Trial the Digital Yuan and a Look at Chainlink’s Gains
8.7.2020
The "Chinese Uber" will join the nations CBDC project, TikTok threw Dogecoin a treat and Nexo tapped Chainlink
Digital Yuan Set for Real-world Ride Sharing Pilot with Apple-backed Didi
8.7.2020
China’s digital yuan launch appears to be inching yet closer to rollout after reports in the Middle Kingdom surfaced linking a ride-share operator with pilots for the new central bank-run token.
Per Beijing Business Today and Bloomberg, a digital currency unit of the central People’s Bank of China...
Ride-Hailing Giant DiDi Joins China’s Digital Yuan Project
8.7.2020
The world’s second-highest-valued unicorn startup has partnered with the Chinese central bank to work on the forthcoming digital yuan
China’s Uber, DiDi, to Trial PBoC’s Central Bank Digital Currency
8.7.2020
Didi, the Chinese equivalent of Uber, is forming a task force to design and implement trial of China's central bank digital currency on its on-demand transportation platform