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The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation has officially initiated work on the country’s cryptocurrency regulation bill, filing the first public notice on the federal legal portal. Russia’s finance ministry on Thursday filed two development notices announcing the start of the process of developing a legal framework for activities related
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Kenya’s central bank has acknowledged in a recently released document that a central bank digital currency could potentially benefit the country’s financial system. The bank, however, warned that rolling out a CBDC could also pose risks to the same. CBDC’s Impact on Financial Stability The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has
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“This is not acceptable behavior … to indiscriminately crack down on an entire industry, blow off invitations to attend a leading U.S. industry conference this year in this space and ultimately make a good-faith effort to engage and try to educate themselves on what’s actually going on,” Selkis said about
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Bitcoin prices raced towards $35,000 as European investors woke up to Elon Musk’s latest cryptocurrency endorsement. The BTC/USD exchange rate rose as much as 4.8 percent during the Asian and early European session to hit an intraday high of $34,728. That followed a 2.63 percent jump last week that closed January
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is further extending a comment period for a controversial proposed rule that would require crypto exchanges to gather and store counterparty information for transactions to unhosted wallets.FinCEN announced the move Tuesday, saying all comments are due 60 days after the change is submitted to
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Euro Pacific Capital CEO, Peter Schiff’s comment suggesting Bitcoin might be the next target following a hack of multiple VIP Twitter accounts has been ridiculed by bitcoiners.Seemingly relishing the prospect of a bitcoin hack, Schiff a gold bug and a well-known bitcoin critic, signs off his Twitter post by
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ICO statement following the Lord’s Committee on Democracy and Digital Technology’s report ‘Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust’. Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner,
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