Mastercard, Visa, PayPal and several others have paved the way for crypto to be used as a tool of payment for buying daily needed goods. The cryptocurrency market has grown beyond many people’s expectations over the past decade. The nascent industry has managed to change mainstream perception quite significantly, especially in 2021, which saw many…
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Jane Thomason is an Australian academic who spent 15 years running hospitals and doing development work abroad followed by a 20-year stint building a $250-million revenue company. Thomason recently a blockchain adviser to the World Health Organization says she had an epiphany while thinking about the 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia, in which the lives of…
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Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week OpenSea lays off 20% of its staff, citing crypto winter…
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On February 8, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) arrested a couple that is accused of laundering 94,636 bitcoins stolen from Bitfinex in 2016. The DOJ alleges that the tech entrepreneur, Ilya Lichtenstein, and his wife Heather Morgan, conspired to launder billions of dollars worth of bitcoin. The duo could face 25 years in…
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According to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) judgment, Jimmy Gale Watson, a former associate of the now deceased John McAfee, has been fined for being paid to promote pump and dump-fashioned initial coin offerings (ICOs). The SEC has ruled that Watson must pay roughly $375K in penalties and he’s not allowed to participate in…
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Bank of England’s deputy governor for financial stability, Sir Jon Cunliffe, has warned that cryptocurrencies are “very vulnerable to sentiment and prone to collapse.” He urged regulators to “get on with the job” and regulate crypto under the principle of “same risk, same regulatory outcome.” Bank of England’s Cunliffe on Crypto Regulation Sir Jon Cunliffe,…
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The 200-week moving average could see another test from the bulls next, according to signals from exchange order book composition. Bitcoin (BTC) consolidated higher on July 16 after the Wall Street trading week finished with modest gains for United States equities. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Can Bitcoin bulls reclaim the 200-week moving…
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Alex Tapscott’s new book breaks down key DeFi concepts for business leaders. Decentralized finance (DeFi) has massive potential to transform traditional financial services. Data from Emergen Research recently found that the global DeFi platform market size is expected to reach $507 billion by 2028. Moreover, the total value locked within DeFi currently exceeds $75 billion, demonstrating fast-paced growth compared to previous…
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An analysis of Andorra’s Digital Assets Act and the potential confusion surrounding Bitcoin, blockchain and crypto according to crypto business owners. A small light of progress shines from Andorra, a tiny European country nestled between France and Spain. The country’s government, the General Council of Andorra, recently approved the Digital Assets Act, a regulatory framework…
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Turning away from voluntary, fragmented utilization of innovations and decentralized technologies will result in changing approaches to their regulation. Mass adoption of technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) potentially could trigger an even larger than projected transition to a new taxonomy of regulation concerning various fields of human life, including that of finance and…
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