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The Director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, said during an interview at the Wall Street Journal CEO Summit that the agency has “a number of different projects” focused on cryptocurrency. In response to a question asking if the CIA was able to limit ransomware attacks from overseas, Burns said his […]
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Australian cryptocurrency exchange, Independent Reserve, has released its Independent Reserve Cryptocurrency Index (IRCI) 2021 report and states that “crypto has hit the mainstream.” The IRCI is an annual survey of over 2,000 Australians and assigns a rating out of 100 on four aspects of Australian attitudes towards cryptocurrency: awareness, adoption, trust, and confidence. This year, […]
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Meta, formerly known as Facebook Inc., released a statement Wednesday 1st Dec saying they are “making it easier to run ads about cryptocurrency on our platform”, expanding the number of accepted regulatory licenses from 3 to 27. For the first time, Meta is also publicly listing the accepted licenses on their policy page. Previously, advertising […]
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Bitcoin Bitcoin hit as low as US$53,827 on Saturday 27th Nov with the WHO announcing the “Omicron” COVID-19 variant as a “variant of concern” causing a sell-off across all asset classes. The Biden Administration’s tax-reporting requirements for digital currencies, China’s new restrictions on crypto, and India’s potential law banning most private cryptocurrencies caused uncertainty with […]
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Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now inoperative black market website, Silk Road, has announced in a Medium article that he is auctioning a series of 10 NFTs. The series, titled the “Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection”, is based on writings and artworks from all periods of his life, including his imprisonment. It will also include an animation by Levitate, an […]
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Jordan Belfort, the former investor nicknamed the “Wolf of Wall Street” has said crypto currencies such as Dogecoin and Shiba Inu are “outright scams” and “****coins”, saying that the people behind them “should to go to jail”. Belfort himself served 22 months in prison for investment fraud and money laundering, devising pump-and-dump scams leading to investor losses of […]
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Budweiser, the American beer brand produced by Anheuser-Busch, sold out of its first release of 1,936 NFTs just one hour after launching. The market value of this series ranged from US$499 to US$999. The collection, named the “Budverse Cans Heritage Edition”, comprises 1,936 unique digital cans, representing 1936, the year that Budweiser first landed on the market. Budweiser states that […]
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Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency trading mobile app, TabTrader, has announced that it has closed a series A funding round with $5.8 million. TabTrader gives users the ability to connect multiple exchanges and carry out trades within a single app, replacing multiple browser tabs or multiple exchange apps. TabTrader supports more than 34 exchanges, including Binance, Kraken, and […]
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America’s new $US1.2 trillion-dollar infrastructure bill could be missing out on a massive opportunity presented by the cryptocurrency sector, one leading financial advisory CEO has said. President Joe Biden’s infrastructure spending package increases the tax reporting requirements for cryptocurrency transactions. Starting in 2023, cryptocurrency brokers will be required to record the proceeds from sales and any […]
Continue reading NFT (Non-Fungible Token) has topped Collins Dictionary’s “word of the year” for 2021, showing just how much publicity the digital assets have gained in a short time. GlobalData’s Social Media Analytics tool showed that mentions of the hashtag “#nft” increased by 3,566 per cent between January and October 2021. The database for Filing Analytics, a leading data and […]
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