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Venezuelan Currency Plunges Almost 40% Against the US Dollar, Analysts Cite Crypto Drought as Part of the Problem

27.11.2022
The Venezuelan fiat currency, the bolivar, has lost almost 40% in its exchange rate against the U.S. dollar in a month. According to reports, the seasonal payments that the government has to make, and the lack of liquidity of the government to intervene in the currency market are part of...

Binance Founder CZ Says Crypto Adoption Will Happen ‘Regardless’ of Government Decision on Regulation

27.11.2022
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has said countries better regulate crypto rather than fight it, claiming that crypto adoption will happen no matter what. During a Binance event in Athens, Greece on Friday, CZ noted that crypto regulation has once again become a hot topic amid the recent fallout...

Ghana Takes Steps to Operationalize Gold-for-Oil Scheme — Move Expected to Help Halt Cedi’s Depreciation

27.11.2022
According to directives issued by Samuel A. Jinapor, the Ghanaian minister for lands and natural resources, large-scale gold mining companies will be required to “sell 20% of all refined gold at their refineries to the Bank of Ghana.” A gold-for-oil scheme is part of the Ghanaian...

Binance CEO: Most Governments Understand Crypto Adoption Will Happen Regardless

27.11.2022
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) says that most governments know that crypto adoption will happen regardless of what they do. “It’s better to regulate the industry instead of trying to fight against it,” the Binance executive emphasized. Binance’s CEO on Crypto Regulation...

El Salvador Establishes National Bitcoin Office to Manage ‘All Projects Related to the Cryptocurrency’

26.11.2022
After the Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele revealed the country would buy a single bitcoin every day, a report published by Torres Legal details that the government of El Salvador has created a National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC). The report says the entity was created via Decree No. 49, which...

Canada crypto regulation: Bitcoin ETFs, strict licensing and a digital dollar

26.11.2022
The first and the last major attempt to encourage a comprehensive crypto framework was buried in the House of Commons on Nov. 23

Trouble in the Bahamas following FTX collapse: Report

25.11.2022
The locals say they are having to contend with vacant apartments and the loss of job opportunities, once provided by the collapsed exchange

Uzbekistan issues first crypto licenses to two local ‘crypto stores’

25.11.2022
Starting from January 2023, only licensed cryptocurrency firms will be allowed to provide cryptocurrency trading services to Uzbek citizens

Turkey Investigates Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried for Fraud, Seizes Assets

25.11.2022
The Turkish government has launched an investigation on the former chief executive of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. According to local media, the authorities in Ankara have also seized assets belonging to the founder of the troubled coin trading platform. Turkey’s Financial...

Russia Prepares to Create Government-Controlled Crypto Exchange

24.11.2022
Lawmakers in Russia are drafting legislation that would allow the establishment of a “national cryptocurrency exchange,” local media unveiled. Coins now circulate outside of government oversight and the Russian state is losing budget revenues in the billions of rubles, pointed out one of...

Bukele's government introduced a bill to launch the 'Bitcoin bonds'

23.11.2022
A new bill confirms the government’s plan to raise $1 billion and invest them into the construction of a “Bitcoin city.”

Election tally: Does blockchain beat the ballot box?

21.11.2022
With election integrity under assault in the United States and elsewhere, is blockchain technology part of the solution? Greenland explores voting options

Celsius bankruptcy victims get proof-of-claim deadline from US court

21.11.2022
The situation surrounding the Celsius bankruptcy continues as U.S. regulators set a deadline for those affected by the situation to file a proof claim against the company

Data Lake’s Consent-to-Earn: A Revolutionary Model for Data Monetization?

19.11.2022
During the last decade or so, data has become a hot topic and often a controversial one. As a result of Big Tech abuses and government-led collection schemes, people’s data is mined continuously and in ever-increasing amounts. Almost all of this is done without the consent of the individual...

FTX meltdown triggers FINRA into probing crypto comms

18.11.2022
The examination comes in the wake of the FTX debacle, a crypto exchange found to be mismanaging customers’ funds by simply lying about their operations

Singapore Government’s Temasek Writes Down $275M Investment in Collapsed Crypto Exchange FTX

18.11.2022
Singapore government’s Temasek has written down the full value of its $275 million investment in the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. “Our belief in the actions, judgment, and leadership of Sam Bankman-Fried … would appear to have been misplaced,” Temasek admitted. Temasek’s...