Crypto
Spain moves to rein in crypto-asset advertising
Spain has moved to regulate rampant advertising of crypto assets, including by social media influencers, tasking the stock market supervisor with authorising mass campaigns and mak...
China’s digital yuan wallets swell but usage lags
China’s digital currency has debuted on app stores with fanfare, with online wallets for the electronic yuan seeing mass adoption in the two weeks since a public launch, yet ...
Robinhood to permanently shift most employees to remote working
Robinhood has said it plans to move a majority of its 3,400 employees to remote work permanently, joining a slew of top tech firms embracing a hybrid culture.
Digital pound could hit financial stability and erode privacy
A digital pound used by consumers could harm financial stability, raise the cost of credit and erode privacy, though a version for wholesale use in the financial sector demands gre...
Macro and technical headwinds accrue for bitcoin
A weak start to 2022 and a host of looming macro and technical headwinds are setting cryptocurrencies up for a rough ride in the weeks to come.
Cryptocurrency crime in 2021 hits all-time high in value
Cryptocurrency-linked crime surged to a record high last year in terms of value, with illegal addresses receiving $14 billion in digital currencies, up 79% from $7.8 billion in 202...
Bitcoin, ether near multi-month lows following hawkish Fed minutes
Bitcoin fell below $43,000, testing multi-month lows after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting showed it leaning toward more aggressive policy action, which sappe...
The Year of the Doge? 2021 was crypto’s wildest year yet
Bitcoin close to $70,000, “memecoins” worth billions of dollars, a blockbuster Wall Street listing and a sweeping Chinese crackdown: 2021 was the wildest yet for crypto...
‘Has anyone seen Web3?’ Musk, Dorsey mock tech’s latest buzzword
Billionaires Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey dismissed the so-called Web3 and criticized the involvement of venture capital firms such as Andreessen Horowitz in building out what some ha...
Russian cenbank official: We see no room for cryptocurrencies
Bank of Russia Deputy Governor Vladimir Chistyukhin has hinted that privately run cryptocurrencies may soon no longer be used in the country’s financial markets, TASS news ag...
Controversial social media app Parler plans to expand into NFTs
Social media platform Parler has said it will expand its business into non-fungible tokens (NFT), in a move that underpins the rapid growth of the digital asset in recent months.
Coinbase says connectivity issues fixed, investigating delays
Coinbase Global Inc said on a Twitter post on Wednesday it has resolved the connectivity problems that denied customers access to the cryptocurrency platform.
Germany’s trillion-euro savings banks mull crypto wallet
Germany’s savings banks, a conservative bastion that holds more than 1 trillion euros for thrifty Germans, is looking into offering a wallet to trade cryptocurrency, a group ...
Binance affiliate says will withdraw Singapore licence application
The Singapore affiliate of Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said in a statement it will withdraw its local license application and wind down its ...
Indian PM Modi’s personal Twitter handle ‘briefly compromised’
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal Twitter handle was “very briefly compromised,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a tweet on Sunday m...