A new report from Chainalysis has found that while China’s share of global criminal crypto flows has been falling since the third quarter of 2019,… Read More »China crypto crime: Still ‘top ranked’ for illicit activity but crime is falling
Gary Gensler, the Chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, believes that the blockchain revolution started by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008… Read More »‘Nakamoto’s innovation is real,’ says SEC Chair Gary Gensler
Riccardo Spagni, the former maintainer of the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency, was arrested last month in Nashville, Tennessee on fraud charges tied to alleged offenses in… Read More »Monero’s former maintainer arrested in the US for allegations unrelated to cryptocurrency
The lawsuit between Ripple Labs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, now involves major crypto exchange Binance after a recent filing on… Read More »Brad Garlinghouse’s lawyers file request for Binance documents in ‘international’ challenge to SEC lawsuit
Nigerian cryptocurrency adoption continues to rise in spite of government crackdown, with peer-to-peer (P2P) trade volume for Bitcoin posting its second strongest week on record… Read More »Nigerian crypto adoption rises despite govt crackdown
BlockFi’s eventful 2021 has continued in the second half of the year as state regulators in the United States began to crack down on the… Read More »BlockFi faces regulatory heat, a sign of possible crypto lending regulations?
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and… Read More »Amazon rumored to be accepting Bitcoin, MicoStrategy pledges to buy more BTC despite losses, Bitcoin struggles at $40K: Hodler’s Digest, July 25-31
Beginning on August 2, 2021, German institutional funds will be able to hold up to 20% of their assets in cryptocurrencies, possibly setting the stage… Read More »German law allowing institutional funds to hold crypto comes into effect Aug. 2
At the same time that China has declared war on cryptocurrencies, giant American banks appear to be embracing crypto — evident the final week of… Read More »A trade war misstep? China is vacating crypto battlefield to US banks
The Ukrainian government is moving forward with its central bank digital currency (CBDC) plans, as the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) is now officially authorized… Read More »Ukraine central bank now officially allowed to issue digital currency
Michele Korver, the first-ever chief digital currency advisor for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN), believes crypto assets are just another way of transferring value.… Read More »FinCEN’s new digital currency advisor says crypto’s ‘just another means of payment’
The International Monetary Fund, or IMF, plans to “step up” its monitoring of digital currencies, according to a report by Reuters. This intent, as published in… Read More »IMF intends to ‘ramp up’ digital currency monitoring
An ongoing lawsuit involving crypto project Nano has taken another turn this week when the developers sought a sanction after the plaintiff dropped the case.… Read More »Nano seeks $700K in costs from plaintiff who dropped class action with ‘absurd’ claims
Senator and former United States presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren believes that the digital asset industry may be a tool to tackle some challenges in the… Read More »Digital currency may be an answer to help the unbanked, Sen. Warren says
The firm behind the world’s leading stablecoin, Tether, is facing more regulatory pressure this week with U.S. financial watchdogs scrutinizing the composition of its reserves.… Read More »Regulators scrutinizing Tether’s commercial paper reserves: Comptroller of the Currency
Powers On… is a monthly opinion column from Marc Powers, who spent much of his 40-year legal career working with complex securities-related cases in the… Read More »Powers On… Why the fear of ICO enforcement and liability is coming to an end
The International Monetary Fund is warning that some of the consequences of a country adopting Bitcoin as a national currency “could be dire.” According to… Read More »IMF issues veiled warning against El Salvador’s Bitcoin law
In the 1988 “Crypto Anarchist Manifesto,” engineer, author and cypherpunk Timothy C. May predicted a social and economic revolution enabled by technological developments, including high-speed… Read More »Blockchain fail-safes in space: SpaceChain, Blockstream and Cryptosat
The world’s leading decentralized exchange, Uniswap, has announced the delisting of a number of tokens from its app interface. Uniswap Labs made the announcement on… Read More »Uniswap delists 100 tokens from interface including options and indexes
The quest to understand the opportunities and challenges of a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is underway in 81 countries, with five nations fully… Read More »Countries representing over 90% of global GDP are exploring CBDCs