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Bitcoin Critic and BIS Chief Shreds Idea of Central Bank-Issued Cryptocurrenices

Bitcoin critic Agustín Carstens, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), delivered a stark message on Friday about…

March 22, 2019

Harvard Fellow: Congress Needs to Fix Crypto ‘Gap’, Bitcoin Creates ‘New Financial Intermediaries Less Accountable Than Big Banks’

Timothy Massad, a senior fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and former chairman of the Commodity…

March 20, 2019

SEC Chief: Bitcoin and Crypto Show Significant Promise, ETF Could Satisfy Our Rules

[the_ad id="36860"] In a new interview with Fox Business, US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton says Bitcoin and…

March 19, 2019

SEC’s Head of Digital Assets Says Crypto Spring Is Coming, Stablecoins May Be Securities

US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) senior advisor for digital assets, Valerie Szczepanik, says stablecoins could face an uphill battle…

March 18, 2019

Blaze of Fury Erupts in Paris As Yellow Vests Protest Government Policies, Rioters Trash Champs Élysées and Set Bank on Fire

Emmanuel Macron’s “grand débat” was a two-month experiment designed to address the Yellow Vest protests in France that began last…

March 17, 2019

QuadrigaCX Nightmare Continues As Widow Issues New Statement and Canadian Regulators Revamp Framework for Crypto Platforms

A week after QuadrigaCX CEO Gerald Cotten and Jennifer Robertson arrived in India for their honeymoon on November 30, 2018,…

March 15, 2019

House Lawmakers Pass Bill Targeting Bitcoin and Crypto Asset Use by Terrorists

New legislation affecting Bitcoin and crypto just passed the US House of Representatives. The FinCen Improvement Act, introduced on February…

March 13, 2019

Russia Prepares for Digital and Crypto Asset Revolution, Passes New Digital Rights Legislation

Russia's parliament has passed a new law designed to develop the country's digital economy. The law introduces the concept of…

March 13, 2019

US Securities and Exchange Commission Set to Launch Crypto Road Trip

The US Securities and Exchange Commission will kick off its crypto road trip on March 26th in San Francisco. The…

March 12, 2019

Texas Bill Targets Bitcoin and Crypto Privacy, Would Effectively Ban Monero, Zcash and Grin

Texas Representative Phil Stephenson has introduced House Bill 4371, which would require crypto users to identify themselves before making transactions.…

March 11, 2019