Following this week’s forced shutdown of their activities in Kazakhstan, bitcoin miners face a rapidly shortening list of countries in which to place their equipment. On 5 January, Kazakh authorities […]
It took less than a week for Mozilla, the non-profit behind popular web browser Firefox, to backtrack on a New Year’s resolution to accept more funding in cryptocurrency. “Last week, […]
In the latest New Money Review podcast, psychotherapist Tony Marini talks about the growing problem of addiction to cryptocurrency. Tony Marini Marini, a specialist in gambling addiction, works at the […]
Three leading cryptocurrency exchanges misled UK clients with digital advertisements, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said today. The ASA is the UK advertising regulator, with the responsibility of ensuring UK […]
During the last decade the UK has become a global leader in financial technology (fintech), attracting a volume of investment that’s second only to the US. Light-touch regulation—meant to help […]
The fees collected by cryptocurrency miners for processing transactions on the ethereum network have rocketed more than tenfold in just five months, according to data firm CryptoCompare. Total monthly fees […]
According to the UK government, the country is one of the best in the world at tackling money laundering. Nothing could be further from the truth, says a leading think […]
A Russian hacking group made clever use of bitcoin to prevent law enforcement bodies from impeding its operations, Google has alleged. In a civil case filed on December 2 in […]
The booming decentralised finance (‘DeFi’) market suffers from an existential problem, says the Bank for International Settlements (BIS): it isn’t decentralised. Meanwhile, the contagion risks from DeFi to the rest […]
The decentralisation inherent in cryptocurrency networks like bitcoin is valuable for its governance benefits, according to Hyun-Song Shin, head of research at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). But this […]
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