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The Belgian government has announced plans to expedite the development of a European blockchain infrastructure during its EU Council presidency in early 2024. The proposal aims to enhance the secure management and storage of official documents, including driving licenses and property deeds. In a statement on Nov. 21, Mathieu Michel, Belgium’s Secretary
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Lawyers representing Binance and CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao have filed statements in support of a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in March.In an Oct. 23 filing in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, CZ’s and Binance’s attorneys
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Four media outlets in the United States have continued efforts to get the identities of non-U.S. FTX customers revealed, filing new objections to a previous motion to seal their identities. Bloomberg, Dow Jones, The New York Times and The Financial Times first filed a motion objecting to FTX and the Official
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The Biden administration has renewed its push for a 30% Digital Asset Mining Energy (DAME) tax on cryptocurrency miners, part of efforts to minimize the industry’s alleged impact on climate change. The proposed crypto-mining tax was first announced on March 9 as part of President Biden's FY2024 budget and seeks to
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The new filing comes as cryptocurrencies, and risk assets in general, are in recovery after a bad 2022. Crypto exchange-traded-product issuer 21Shares and investment firm Ark Investment Management are once again trying to get a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) approved. This comes after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
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United States Senator Edward Markey and Representative Jared Huffman announced March 3 that they would reintroduce the Crypto-Asset Environmental Transparency Act in Congress. The move comes ahead of a Senate hearing on the environmental impact of crypto mining, which Markey will chair on March 7.Markey and Huffman first introduced the
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Several United States senators have reportedly penned a letter requesting answers from Silvergate Capital — the parent company of Silvergate Bank — related to the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.According to a Jan. 31 Bloomberg report, U.S. Senators including Elizabeth Warren, Roger Marshall and John Kennedy said Silvergate had not
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Bitcoin enthusiasts on social media platforms have reiterated their annual petition to have the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel awarded to Satoshi Nakamoto.On Oct. 10, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced three recipients of the economic prize — former Federal Reserve chair Ben
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According to Khori Whittaker, the Executive Director of ENS, “Virgil Griffith, who was working at the Ethereum Foundation when ENS launched, was an early contributor to the ENS protocol. Because ENS is a permissionless protocol, anyone can build dApps on top of it, which is the case for Virgil’s involvement
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With counterfeit Australian coronavirus vaccination certificates circulating online, local experts are calling for the national rollout of a blockchain-based vaccine passport to ensure the efficacy of the country’s “Covid certificate” system.A report in The Australian cites fraudsters who claim to have sold more than 200 fake COVID-19 certificates for $120
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