Bitfinex gets license for El Salvador bonds, Bitmain fined in China and presidential candidate calls BTC an escape
Bitfinex awarded First-Ever digital asset service provider license in El Salvador El Salvador, the world’s first nation-state to establish bitcoin as legal tender, has issued a digital assets license to crypto exchange Bitfinex. This marks a landmark achievement for Bitfinex as it has essentially become the first crypto firm to secure El Salvador’s license to […]
Swiss government bank to sell bitcoin, Paxful to end operations and MicroStrategy buys 1.000 BTC
Photo by Kanchanara on Unsplash 117-year-old Swiss retail bank PostFinance taps crypto The Swiss government-owned retail bank PostFinance partnered with Sygnum to offer its customers a range of regulated digital asset banking services. Sygnum is a Zurich-based regulated digital asset bank supervised by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). PostFinance, on the other hand, is the fifth-largest […]
CFTC attacks Binance, BlockFi pays customers back and crypto exposure to be declared by pension plans Canada
CFTC attacks Binance with civil enforcement action The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced it has filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois charging Changpeng Zhao and three entities that operate the Binance platform. They want to sue the exchange with numerous violations of the Commodity Exchange […]
Celsius’ customers may expect 72% of deposits, war on crypto continues in EU and against Coinbase
* Photo by Kanchanara on Unsplash Payment restriction in EU anti-money laundering bill irks crypto industry A single article introduced by the European Parliament to the anti-money laundering rule for commercial crypto payments has stirred Europe’s digital asset industry. Policymakers hope that they can close a loophole for untraceable transactions by prohibiting payments over a €1,000 ($1,070) threshold […]
Bitcoin smashes past $26.000 after CPI Report, Europol shuts cryptomixer and banking crisis in U.S.
Europol shuts crypo tumbler ChipMixer, seize $46m in bitcoin Crypto tumbler ChipMixer is the target of law enforcement as American and European federal authorities took action to seize assets and dismantle the platform, according to announcement from the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, or Europol. U.S. and German authorities took down the ChipMixer infrastructure for […]
U.S. Government wallet moves 40.000 BTC, Coinbase blocked Binance transactions and deadline for Mt. Gox Creditors
Photo by Kanchanara on Unsplash Wallets associated with U.S. government transfer 40,000 BTC Wallets associated with the government of the United States transferred around 40,000 bitcoin, a majority of which are internal transfers. Among the total amount of Bitcoin transferred, which is worth more than $2 billion, a definite quantity of coins was moved to the leading crypto […]
Already 100.000 Ordinal-NFT’s on bitcoin, DBS records 80% increase BTC trading and El Salvador opens second Bitcoin Embassy
Photo by Pierre Borthiry – Peiobty on Unsplash Bitcoin NFT protocol Ordinals surpasses 100,000 inscriptions Just five days after reaching 50,000 inscriptions, Bitcoiners using the Ordinals protocol have now inscribed more than 100,000 pieces of data onto the Bitcoin blockchain. Since the project’s launch in January 2023, a seemingly endless stream of pictures, audio files […]
Lebanon devalues currency 90%, South Africa retail giant accepts BTC and Strike expands to Phillipines
Photo by Kanchanara on Unsplash Lebanon devalues its currency by 90% Lebanon is adopting a new official exchange rate, devaluing its local currency by nearly 90%. The new rate is set at 15,000 Lebanese pounds against the U.S. dollar, according to a January 31 report, which cited a statement from the country’s central bank governor, […]
Blockstream secures funding, banks EU allowed to hold 2% in crypto and Binance linked to money laundering platform
Photo by Kanchanara on Unsplash Blockstream secures $125 million in funding for bitcoin mining operations Digital asset infrastructure firm Blockstream has secured $125 million in funding aimed at expanding its bitcoin mining facilities. Blockstream has received the funding in convertible note and secured loan financing, the company announced in a Tuesday press release, adding that […]
Bitcoin bonds approved in Assembly El Salvador, fiat wars with oil trades and Russian stablecoin
Photo by Kanchanara on Unsplash El Salvador paves way for first sovereign Bitcoin Bond In 2021, the Republic of El Salvador announced that it would raise $1 billion through bitcoin bonds, also referred to as the Volcano Bonds, because of the use of renewable energy, including that generated from the country’s active volcanoes, to fund […]