After the El Salvadoran Parliament agreed to adopt Bitcoin as the country's second national currency alongside the US dollar, the new currency will be officially launched on September 7. The country has done most of the groundwork for the Bitcoin launch.
The former US Treasury Criminal Investigator, Greg Monahan has joined the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance to oversee the company's global money laundering operations.
Within weeks, the 20-year war in Afghanistan ended and the Taliban took power again. However, the cryptocurrency community wonders if the Taliban government will embrace cryptocurrencies as it rebuilds the economy.
More than 60% of the world's Central Banks are now pursuing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Could this possibly challenge the autonomy of the US dollar?
Tech enthusiast, Barbados CBDC pioneer, Co-Founder and CEO of Bitt Inc. Gabriel Abed has just become the Ambassador of Barbados to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Will his concrete background in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology make the UAE and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region a hub for crypto and blockchain technology?
After some back and forth with senators, the cryptocurrency amendment (Wyden-Lummis-Toomey) has gone up in smoke in the Senate. What will crypto exchanges, miners and developers do now?
The largest infrastructure bill in US history has just been sent to the US Senate for consideration. However, the bill requires cryptocurrency miners, marked as "brokers," to pay a huge amount of tax, which Senator Cynthia Lummis and her colleagues questioned and immediately filed an amendment.