European sanctions against Russia are impacting small European exporters, particularly in Italy, more severely than Russia itself, according to Ferdinando Pelazzo, president of the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are struggling with disrupted payment systems and logistical challenges due to the sanctions. Italian businesses heavily reliant on Russian markets now face…
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Italy plans to raise its capital gains tax on bitcoin to 42%, up from 26%, as part of efforts to fund election promises and curb the fiscal deficit. The government cites growing bitcoin adoption as a key factor. This comes as the European Union prepares to implement its Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), aiming to…
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Italy’s central bank will soon release guidelines on implementing the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) Regulation to ensure the payment system’s regular functioning, Bank of Italy Governor Fabio Panetta revealed on Tuesday. In his speech to the Italian Banking Association, Panetta highlighted that MiCA considers electronic money tokens (EMTs) and asset-reference tokens…
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Italy is taking steps to enhance surveillance of crypto assets and address associated risks. According to a draft decree reviewed by a news agency, the plan includes imposing high fines on those who manipulate the market. The fines range from $5,400-$5.4 million (€5,000 to €5 million) for offenses such as insider trading, unlawful disclosure of…
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Source: AdobeStock / Andrey Popov Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. In this edition: BankSocial Plans to Create a Crypto-Friendly Credit Union Seagrass and The Hashgraph Association Announce Carbon Credit Web3 Identity Wallet Conio Works With Coinbase to Enable Italian…
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The Italian Data Protection Authority has launched a “fact-finding” probe into the security practices of public and private websites to prevent AI data scraping. The Italian Data Protection Authority, a local privacy regulator, announced the launch of a “fact-finding” investigation on Nov. 22, in which it will look into the practice of data gathering to…
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Despite significant variations in electricity rates and regulations, the Asian region as a whole has the lowest average cost of bitcoin mining for solo miners, new research shows. At the same time, the surge of energy prices due to Covid, heatwaves, and the war in Ukraine render bitcoin mining largely unprofitable throughout Europe. Mining 1…
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The Italian central bank’s Milano Hub has selected a project headed by Cetif Advisory and Polygon Labs in its second round of proposals. The Bank of Italy’s Milano Hub innovation center will provide support for a project developed by Cetif Advisory to research a security token ecosystem for institutional decentralized finance (DeFi). The project has…
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Those of us in Italy and surrounding countries will be allowed to continue trading Zcash, Monero and other coins that Binance sought to condemn as unworthy. Privacy advocates scored a big win in June with Binance’s announcement that it was backtracking on a decision to delist privacy coins for users in a number of European…
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There is no shortage of regulatory efforts to mitigate the negative impacts of artificial intelligence. The lively discussion around artificial intelligence (AI) continues. Last week, dozens of AI experts — including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic — signed an open statement with a single sentence: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI…
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