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The Politics of Crypto in Coming Weeks, Months, Years and Why It Matters

13 Jan 2021 9 minute read 8 comments BitcoinGordon

Gordon likes a good story. The history of Bitcoin with the revered and mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, the era of Vitalik, the split from Ethereum Classic, the Bitcoin Cash wars, and of course Dogeeeee! Recently, XRP has become a central player in a ver...

eToro stops crypto services in the Netherlands

11 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Tomatosoup

eToro is halting all crypto trading and forcing the liquidation or transfer of crypto currency held in accounts in the Netherlands by the 23rd of January. The surprise move apparently follows the company's failure to complete it's registration with D...

UK Opens Consultation Regarding Stablecoins, Wants to Remain FinTech Leader

8 Jan 2021 1 minute read 11 comments author_nan

The United Kingdom’s treasury department, Her Majesty’s Treasury, has launched a consultation process for stablecoins with respect to their application in the national economy, according to an official document published in Jan. 2021. Saying that th...

US Banking Regulator Tells Banks They Can Use Stablecoins for Payment Activities

5 Jan 2021 1 minute read 7 comments author_nan

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), part of the US Treasury, announced on Jan. 4 that banks could use stablecoins for payment activities.  The letter states that banks and thrift institutions can participate in independent node veri...

Crypto & Proposals for new European Regulation

21 Dec 2020 7 minute read 0 comments coinpass Global

The Build-Up It is now more than a decade since bitcoin was created and some are asking whether the cryptocurrency world will attract some form of specialised regulatory coverage. If so, will it be treated like FX, which in many countries is unregul...

Sneaky SEC tactics

19 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Mali_Coins

Let's do a little recap on the IPO of Coinbase. So, as of Thursday Coinbase, a San Francisco based company  Filed a confidential S1 Filed a confidential S1. Essentially they are filing for the right to list shares to the public. Now for most larger c...

Reminder to not Exceed your Freedom Expectation in Torum

12 Dec 2020 3 minute read 0 comments 0fajarpurnama0

In this article, I will talk about the terms of services section which is probably mostly ignored by users where in my observation is due to the text size, color, no emphasizing, and its location. It maybe fine for new users to ignore this for a whi...

Any Good News in Comptroller's Comments?

6 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SupportiveNormie

Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Brian Brooks, was interviewed on CNBC (video below) about recent comments concerning regulation "self hosted" crypto wallet. Brooks made a few points about the overall climate of Bitcoin as it related to US regulat...

Coinbase Pro Disables Margin Trading, Citing CFTC Guidance

25 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan

Coinbase Pro will disable margin trading from Nov. 25, according to an announcement made on Nov. 25. Coinbase cited guidance from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission as the reason why it has disabled the product The exchange also...

Thai Regulators Approve Cryptocurrencies as Business Capital

19 Nov 2020 1 minute read 1 comment author_nan

Thailand’s financial regulators have approved new regulation that would allow businesses to classify cryptocurrency holdings as business capital, according to a report from local media outlet the Bangkok Post published on Nov. 18. Thailand’s Securit...