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The Fed is evaluating whether to launch a digital currency and in what form, Powell says
September 29th, 2021
The Federal Reserve is pushing ahead with its study into whether to implement its own digital currency and will be releasing a paper on the issue shortly, Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday. No decision has been made on the ...
Cryptocurrency prices today: Bitcoin, ether, dogecoin slip; Cardano gains
August 4th, 2021
In cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin prices today continued to trade below the $40,000 mark as the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization declined over 2% to $38,107, as per CoinDesk. The decline in price puts Bitcoin back in the top end ...
Cryptocurrency trading volume plunges
July 13th, 2021
Cryptocurrencies are in a summer slump as they navigate a two-month correction period following a string of negative stories. Trading volumes at the largest exchanges, including Coinbase, Kraken, Binance and Bitstamp, fell more than 40% in June, according to ...
About £114m of cryptocurrency has been seized by UK police
June 25th, 2021
Police make UK’s biggest ever cryptocurrency seizure as they confiscate £114m. The Metropolitan Police did not say which cryptocurrencies it had taken, or when the operation took place. About £114m of cryptocurrency has been seized by UK police as ...
Japan prepares for digital currency, in line with China and others
December 30th, 2020
Japan is gearing up its preparation for the issuance of digital currency in both the public and private sectors following swift moves by China and other countries to do the same. Virtual money issued by central banks around the ...
Indians are spending millions daily on cryptocurrency trading
December 10th, 2020
Retail investors aged between 25 and 40 are spending millions on trading in cryptocurrency in India every day, according to two of the top exchanges in the country. According to the country’s largest crypto exchange, WazirX, the company saw ...
Lebanon to launch digital currency in 2021, central bank governor says
November 16th, 2020
The plan as part of a broader effort to fight a parallel economic and financial crisis that has engulfed the country, according to CoinTelegraph. The country’s central bank has been pondering over the idea of a state-run digital currency ...
Hacker steals $24 million from cryptocurrency service
October 29th, 2020
A hacker has stolen roughly $24 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from decentralized finance (DeFi) service Harvest Finance, a web portal that lets users invest cryptocurrencies and then farm the price variations for small profit yields. The hack took ...
Another Cryptocurrency Exchange gets hacked for millions
September 9th, 2020
Hackers have compromised yet another cryptocurrency exchange. This time, it’s the small-time Slovakian exchange Eterbase—though the amount hackers made off with is nothing to sneeze at nearly $2 million. Hackers raided Eterbase’s wallets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Tezos, Algorand ...
Cryptocurrency to get pan-European legal framework
August 24th, 2020
In the fall, the EU Commission is set to complete its work on digital finance, and the result will be a clear definition for cryptocurrency in European law. “Lack of legal certainty is often cited as the main barrier ...