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Latam Insights: Bolivia Bans Crypto Energy Transactions, Panama Accelerates Bitcoin Adoption
1.6.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, Bolivia bans a state-owned oil company from using crypto to settle energy transactions, Panama accelerates bitcoin adoption policies, and the IMF approves...
Latam Insights: Bolivia’s Crypto Energy Moves and Brazil’s Crypto BRICS Initiative
17.3.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, dollar scarcity is pushing Bolivia to pay for energy imports with crypto, Brazil is prioritizing the implementation of a crypto payment system...
Swiss canton of Bern votes to study Bitcoin mining feasibility
28.11.2024
Bern’s Bitcoin Parliamentary Group is calling the commissioning of the report a victory, although the executive branch is opposed to it
EIA Begins Probe on Crypto Mining’s Energy Use Following White House Directive
5.2.2024
The energy demands of crypto mining in the United States have rapidly increased over the past four years, according to a February 1 press release from the Environmental Impact Agency (EIA). The EIA has been working under strict directives from the White House to gauge the energy consumption of...
UAE Tech Researchers Roll Out Lightweight Blockchain for Carbon Trading
7.12.2023
The Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi has launched a blockchain geared towards tracking carbon emissions and facilitating trading amid growing climate concerns. In a Dec 5 post on X (Twitter), the institute disclosed that its Cryptography Research Center has launched the blockchain as...
Lawmakers write to US officials about crypto energy usage information gathering
7.2.2023
Elizabeth Warren and seven other Democrats want to know how much the Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Department know about crypto mining energy draws
Green Policy and Crypto Energy Consumption in the EU
21.11.2019
The EU is solarizing its digitized economy without an environmental tax policy — an expert’s take