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Austria News
The Federal Republic of Austria is a country in central Europe with 88,000 square kilometers of area and a population of around nine million people. Austria has a developed, highly-industrialized economy that provides itself with one of the highest GDPs per capita. The main industries in Austria are construction, machinery, agriculture and wood products. Austria had the largest industry companies nationalized until the 1980s, when privatization started to reduce state holdings. Bitcoin is legal in Austria. However, Austria has issued Bitcoin taxes, despite not considering it to be a currency. For the rest of the industry, Austrian blockchain-related businesses are free to operate. Austria has Bitcoin ATMs, Bitcoin exchanges and cryptocurrency startups. The high personal income and level of education make Austria a welcoming place for blockchain startups.
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Switzerland-based financial firm Leonteq has launched an investment suite of 18 crypto assets with an inherent focus on institutional investors throughout Germany and Austria.
3594The Austrian post is set to incorporate near-field communication to its award-winning nonfungible token digital postage stamp.
6376The funding round was led by Valar Ventures and partners from DST Global.
9583Crypto scams appear to be dominating investment fraud cases in Austria.
20060The Iota Foundation is teaming up with one of Austria’s most prestigious universities to foster research in distributed ledger technologies.
12771The Vienna Stock Exchange and the Singapore Exchange are warming up to cryptocurrency.
15777Over 2,500 Austrian merchants can now accept cryptocurrencies as a payment method.
6351A-Trust’s QualiSig project has received 60,000 euros of Austrian government funding to provide secure crisis communications between authorities and citizens.
2629The CEO of Kingdom Trust, a Bitcoin-friendly custodian managing more than $13 billion in assets, believes Bitcoin comprises a digital realization of Austrian economics.
4235An ongoing ransomware attack targets the public services infrastructure of Weiz.
12338Raiffeisen Bank International is extending collaboration with Polish-British fintech Billon for a new form of DLT-based national currency tokenization.
5480The Austrian government is backing a project that would let citizens submit data about industrial waste heat spots for district heating, receiving tokens as reward.
5478German firm Black Manta Capital Partners has launched a security token offering for $12 million worth of Berlin real estate.
5427Nigma Conseil and the Austrian Institute of Technology joined forces to provide an alternative blockchain forensics platform, offering compliance for AML and KYC.
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