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Greggs has dethroned Subway as the UK’s biggest fast food chain

An 84-year-old homegrown bakery’s footprint is now larger than US-based submarine sandwich chain Subway in the UK. 3 ways to negotiate your return to the office As of this month, Greggs has 2,400 stores nationwide , topping Subway’s UK store count of 2,300. The Newcastle-based baker has opened 82 net new shops so far this year, and it’s not finished. The bakery chain—which specializes in savory products like baked goods, sausage rolls, and sandwiches as well as sweet items like doughnuts, anticipates the total net shop openings for the year to come in  between 135 and 145 —the company said...

Institutional Inflows Hit $66 Million as Bitcoin (BTC) Surges to $35,000

Bitcoin is back. The world’s largest digital asset has surged to a new high for the year, topping $35,000 during Asian trading. Moreover, institutional appetite has returned with the fourth consecutive week of inflows to crypto products. Bitcoin (BTC) prices have reached their highest level since May 2022, tapping $35,066 during the Tuesday morning Asian trading session.  Bitcoin Back in Favor for Institutions The asset has built upon weekend momentum, surging an additional 14.5% over the past 24 hours. At the time of writing, BTC was changing hands for $34,727 after gaining 22% since the same time last week.  Moreover,...

New Evidence Questions Hal Finney-Satoshi Link

By Philip Maina 1 week agoMon Oct 23 2023 10:00:25 Reading Time: 2 minutes A researcher has presented new evidence disputing the claim that computer scientist Hal Finney created Bitcoin The evidence claims that Finney was taking part in a race while the real Bitcoin creator pseudonymously known as Satoshi Nakamoto was replying to emails The evidence comes at a time when Craig Wright is still fighting to be recognized as the original creator of the Bitcoin blockchain Software engineer Jameson Lopp has presented more reasons why the late computer scientist Hal Finney isn’t Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. According...

SOL investments top altcoin cohort as BTC inflows preach caution

Bitcoin and Solana shared the major part of the spoils in a week that produced around $66 million in investment inflows. SOL’s bullish momentum was waning, indicating that the token could fall below $30.  For the fourth week in a row, digital asset investment products crossed over $60 million in inflows, according to CoinShares’ 23 October update. But unlike previous recent weeks, Bitcoin [BTC] was not the star of the show. Read Solana’s [SOL] Price Prediction 2023-2024 Last week, Solana was king Instead, Solana [SOL] , whose price action has been soaring, got much more inflows than any other altcoin-related...

Bitcoin SV (BSV), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Pops as BTC ETF Hopes Rise

Bitcoin SV and  Bitcoin Cash prices were among the top-performing currencies on Monday as a sense of hope returned in the crypto market. BSV jumped by more than 13% to $38.27 while Bitcoin Cash jumped to $228.64. Other top-performing cryptocurrencies were Solana and Stacks. The main catalyst for the rally was the ongoing hopes that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will approve a Bitcoin ETF. These hopes were amplified by the decision by the SEC to move on without appealing the Grayscale lawsuit. BCH and BSV prices jumped after a false report by Cointelegraph suggested that the SEC had...

Unbounded Capital Summit NYC 2023: Creating learning environment on the value of scalable blockchains

September 21, 2023, marked the second annual Unbounded Capital Summit in New York City at Dream Downtown, bringing together founders and investors in the scalable blockchain space. The event was designed to be heavy on networking and Q&A, broken up with presentations and panels to stimulate productive discussions between the two parties. Unbounded Capital Managing Partner Zach Resnick played a huge part in bringing the right investors into the room and connecting them with the founders of companies that make up the Unbounded Capital portfolio. “As many of you here know, Unbounded Capital is investing in technical founders building seed...

XRP to Showcase at World Expo with NFTs, XRP Ledger Innovations

The World Expo in Osaka will see XRPL host NFTs to potentially reach almost 30 million people. Ripple is gaining a larger foothold in Asia, utilising XRP for cross-border payments. XRP has left behind the USD 50 Cents mark in the current crypto rally. SBI Holdings announced the launch of an original NFT service for the Osaka-Kansai Expo, named “EXPO2025 Digital Wallet NFT (Myakoon!).” The NFTs, issued on the XRP Ledger can be collected through participation in Expo events, and the service is integrated with the “EXPO2025 Digital Wallet” mobile app, which offers various financial services for the Expo. XRP...

Tether Freezes $835 Million Linked to Crime

By Mark Hunter 2 weeks agoTue Oct 17 2023 07:57:50 Reading Time: 2 minutes Tether has frozen $835 million in assets linked to criminal activity, working with countries like Brazil, Singapore, Germany, and the United States Tether addressed the criticism from some journalists and blockchain industry detractors in its press release The ability to freeze funds is hotly debated within the blockchain world Tether yesterday revealed that it has cooperated with 31 agencies in 19 jurisdictions to freeze approximately $835 million in assets related to criminal activity. The USDT issuer worked with authorities in Brazil, Singapore, Germany, the United States,...

Solana, XRP and One Ethereum Rival Leading Institutional Inflows in 2023: CoinShares Data

Digital assets manager CoinShares says XRP, Solana (SOL) and another Ethereum (ETH) rival are being favored by institutional investors in 2023 so far. In its latest Digital Asset Fund Flows report, CoinShares finds that institutional investors have poured more money into Solana, XRP and Cardano (ADA) this year than any other altcoin, including ETH. After weekly inflows of $3.7 million for SOL and $0.4 million for XRP (ADA had no recorded inflows) last week, the three altcoins lead all non-ETH altcoins with $59 million, $15 million, and $6 million in inflows, year-to-date, respectively. Over the same period, Bitcoin (BTC) has...

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