Irish Bitcoin News Archive

Trinity College launches new Crypto Course for 4 days this October

Trinity College is launching a Blockchain course for executives who are interested in learning about blockchain called “Unpacking Crypto & Blockchain”. The four day course is delivered by Lory Kehoe, Coinbase Ireland’s head of EMEA …

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RTE’s Prime Time runs piece on Cryptocurrency

Flagship investigative journalism show Prime Time on Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ ran a pre-Christmas piece on cryptocurrencies this week. Going by the title, “Into the Cryptoverse”, and available here (embedded from RTE Player so it …

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Floki Inu advertising campaign receives hundreds of complaints

As we reported about two weeks ago, the Floki Inu memecoin ran an extensive advertising campaign around Dublin for it’s coin. We had flagged in our article that we expected a lot of complaints, given …

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Floki Inu running large outdoor advertising campaign in Dublin

So something very unusual caught my eye out in Dublin this evening. Floki Inu, a memecoin, is running a massive outdoor advertising campaign. This tweet announces the details and some photos showing the extent of …

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Buy Irish-made bitcoin and ethereum cufflinks

So we’re always on the lookout for interesting local stories, but occasionally we get something really cool that comes our way, and this one will be ideal for any crypto lover as a gift, or …

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Stripe reopening blockchain unit

As reported in the Irish Times, Irish global payments company Stripe has reopened it’s blockchain unit and is looking to hire blockchain engineers (albeit in the US team) with a view to possibly re-integrating cryptocurrencies …

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