British society is both civil and democratic, so it wasn’t unexpected that the government of the United Kingdom would “consult” the public before signing off on a digital version of the British pound. The response it received may have been surprising, though. The public canvassing conducted jointly by His Majesty’s […]

Blockchain-based payment protocol company Ripple notched a landmark win against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday. In a case that has been closely followed by attorneys and crypto industry players since late 2020, the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York ruled that Ripple […]

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a tried and tested online security measure, and the technology is now being used as an additional transaction signing measure on MultiversX’s blockchain protocol. MultiversX CEO Beniamin Mincu unpacked the protocol’s new guardian service in conversation with Cointelegraph. The feature makes use of Google Authenticator, Authy, […]

On July 13, Google said it had launched its Bard chatbot to users in the European Union and Brazil. This launch comes after the tech company overcame regulatory hurdles faced in the EU. The territory expansion also came with the unveiling of new features for the artificial intelligence (AI) tool. […]

Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency and digital identification project, has seen over two million users sign up for its “global identity protocol” dubbed World ID.  According to a July 13 statement, the World ID project — still in beta testing— passed two million in less than half the time it took to […]

On 13 July 2023, within 30 minutes of Coinbase announcing that it had decided to relist XRP, rival exchange Kraken made a similar announcement: A few minutes later, Marco Santori, Chief Legal Officer at Ripple, explained the reason for the decision to relist XRP. Santori said: “This morning, the Federal […]

At 7:40 p.m. UTC on 13 July 2023, around four hours after U.S. district judge Analisa Torres’s order (or ruling) in the SEC vs. Ripple lawsuit got filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase, delivered the news that XRP […]

Bitcoin miner ClearSpark has begun the second phase of operations at its mining campus in Washington, in the U.S. state of Georgia, reaching 8.0 exahashes per second (EH/s), halfway to its year-end target of 16.EH/s.  The second phase saw an investment of nearly $55 million in the site, including construction, […]

The United States Federal Trade Commission has issued a $4.7-billion fine against bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network. However, the judgement will be suspended to “permit Celsius to return its remaining assets to consumers in bankruptcy proceedings.” According to the July 13 announcement, Celsius and its affiliate companies will be permanently […]

While Switzerland has been popular among the wealthy for its prowess in banking, the country has also been slowly welcoming those who mainly want to use Bitcoin (BTC) as an alternative form of money.  Cointelegraph reporter Joseph Hall spoke with Pietro Poretti, the director of the economic development division of […]