The Bank of Namibia (BON) has warned individuals investing in cryptocurrencies that it will not entertain their complaints should they get scammed. The institution argues that since its mandate does not currently cover digital currencies, it lacks the “legal power” to follow up on such complaints. Growing Namibian Interest in […]

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has approved guidelines prohibiting crypto exchanges in the country from supporting four different types of tokens in certain cases. In a Friday announcement from the Thai SEC, the regulatory body said that Secretary-General Ruenvadee Suwanmongkol had approved crypto exchange guidelines, Notification 18/2564 on “Rules, Conditions […]

FX trading industry technology provider, PrimeXM, released its monthly trading volume report for May 2021, highlighting a 6.45% year-over-year increase. Specifically, the monthly trading volume posted a total of $941.64 billion for May, which is up compared with the last year’s figure of $884.61 billion, considering all the data from […]

An official at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and former member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB), Benoit Coeure, insists that bitcoin has not passed the test of being a means of payment. He calls El Salvador’s move to make the cryptocurrency legal tender “an […]

Bitcoin Press Release: 1xBit is offering bitcoin prizes to football fans in its Euromania 2020 Lottery competition until the 11th of July, 2021.  11th June, 2021, Limassol, Cyprus — Are you one of the football fans getting ready to catch all the excitement of Euro 2020? Or maybe you’re just […]

The prospect of enterprise adoption is one of BSV enterprise blockchain’s most exciting draws. Now, you can’t discuss enterprise business solutions without talking about the “as-a-service” sea change in product delivery, which begs the question: what does blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) look like? This was the topic of discussion on CoinGeek Zurich’s […]

In a move to test its state-owned CBDC dubbed e-CNY, China has given away digital red envelopes embodying its prototype CBDC in Beijing and Shanghai to test the digital yuan (e-CNY). Reportedly, the Winter Olympics (WO) vendors will also allow e-CNY for payments. Different platforms in the country including Shijingshan, […]

BlockFi CEO Zac Prince agrees with United States Senator Elizabeth Warren that there is a lot of noise in the crypto industry. Still, he expects that the clarity that comes with regulations will positively impact the ecosystem.  Describing regulators’ interest in crypto as a natural evolution of the technology, Prince […]

If there are two worlds that find themselves constantly connected, it would be the world of blockchain and crypto and the world of social media. Given that cryptocurrency exists mostly in the virtual space, a lot of the community around it operates and interacts online. This can be seen in […]

Benoît Cœuré, Bitcoin (BTC) critic and the head of the innovation hub at the Bank of International Settlements, called El Salvador’s historic move to make BTC legal tender in the country an “interesting experiment.” According to Reuters, Cœuré made this assertion during the launch of the BIS’s fourth innovation hub […]