The bear market won’t scuttle Bitcoin’s (BTC) adoption plans in the United Kingdom. From Oct. 21–22 this year, internationally recognized Bitcoin experts, authors and content creators will take part in the United Kingdom’s largest Bitcoin conference to date. Organized by the Bitcoin Collective, a newly formed Bitcoin company, and in partnership with Bitcoin and crypto exchange OKX, the event takes place at the Assembly Rooms on Edinburgh’s George Street. Jordan Walker, CEO of the Bitcoin Collective, told Cointelegraph, “the conference is solely Bitcoin related, as this is our focus as we aim to inform and educate the collective.” In the …

Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology has partnered with two financial technology firms which will provide its students exposure to the financial technology and cryptocurrency business world. The partnership is between Swinburne and small business loan provider Judo Bank along with Banxa, a payment service provider with a fiat-to-crypto platform whose clients include Binance, KuCoin and hardware wallet Trezor, among others. Students of the university’s Master of Financial Technology (fintech) course will be “exposed to real life examples and cases across the spectrum of financial services,” Dimitrios Salampasis Swinburne’s director of the master of fintech told Cointelegraph. Salampasis said Judo Bank …

A study claiming that psychopaths and others with "Dark Tetrad" personality traits are drawn to crypto has been criticized as "meaningless" for showing very weak correlativity by a psychology expert from the University of Otago. Researchers with backgrounds predominately in marketing and advertising from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) surveyed 566 people on their attitudes toward crypto and correlated the results with four specific personality traits: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and sadism. The findings were first shared by The U.S. Sun, and were widely syndicated by the mainstream media, with the New York Post headline screaming “Bitcoin fans are psychopaths …

Your friendly neighborhood digital media publication covering news on crypto and blockchain has launched a private membership service aimed at business leaders and industry experts who share a commitment to shaping the future of the space. Starting March 1, Cointelegraph Innovation Circle will be available to a select group of company founders and senior executives, as well as experts in crypto, financial technology, blockchain and alternative assets who are chosen for their proven accomplishments and business acumen. Members will have access to a custom-built portal designed to foster connections, publication and idea-sharing through groups, private threads and ongoing discussions. “We …

[Correction: A previous version of this post contained a speculative comment from a source that our editors felt detracted from the factual content of the story. Therefore, a decision was made to remove it.] A pair of organizations — one in Canada, one in the US — launched this week with the goal of identifying cryptocurrency experts via certification procedures. Those two groups are the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (they just call it “C4”) in Toronto and the Digital Currency Council in New York. Let’s take a look at each separately to see where they fit into the cryptocurrency universe. C4 …