Better Know a Crypto Candidate: Jerrod Sessler

Bitcoin's electricity bill has been attracting the attention of regulators worldwide. 4826 Total views 20 Total shares Beijing authorities are reportedly conducting inspections of crypto mining data centers to better understand their impact on energy consumption, Reuters reports Thursday.The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology on Tuesday sent an emergency notice to the…

A United States District Court has entered an emergency freeze to preserve $8 million of a New York citizen and two of his entities’ related assets following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) complaint filed on Aug. 12.Per the SEC's announcement published on Aug. 13, the court agreed, ordering the temporary freeze of at…

Police raids on the Bithumb offices are apparently not just FUD as more investigation reports come in. The drama over alleged fraud involving Bithumb’s senior executives continues as the company’s chairman has reportedly been summoned for interrogation.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is purportedly seeking to question Lee Jung-hoon, chairman of board at Bithumb Korea and…

The Turkish Capital Markets Board has established full regulatory control over crypto asset platforms, taking responsibility for CASP licensing, operations and compliance. Turkey is advancing its cryptocurrency regulations with new rules for crypto asset service providers (CASPs). On March 13, the Capital Markets Board (CMB) of Turkey published two regulatory documents related to the licensing

The Bank of Jamaica is getting ready to begin testing its planned central bank digital currency in collaboration with financial institutions in the country. Jamaica’s central bank will reportedly commence the initial roll-out of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) project in August.According to a report by the Jamaica Observer on Wednesday, Bank of Jamaica…

According to an educational video from the International Monetary Fund, cryptocurrencies could be ‘the next step in the evolution of money.’ 2002 Total views 22 Total shares An old International Monetary Fund video explaining the benefits and disadvantages of cryptocurrency has resurfaced on social media, and many viewers are largely unimpressed.The two-minute video originally published…

What caused the X outage? On March 10, 2025, X’s services went down for many users, causing frustration and confusion across the platform.  The outages were significant enough to make headlines and draw attention from the tech community and the media. Elon Musk, ever the outspoken owner, quickly attributed the disruptions to a “massive cyberattack.”

Data transparency has been a focal point for the crypto industry, but the FTX fiasco has shown that centralized exchanges (CEX) are not transparent enough. So far, crypto analytics firms are apparently not capable of tracking transactions to prevent collapses like FTX.All Bitcoin (BTC) transactions are available publicly on-chain, which enables tracking such transactions when…

Rand Corporation unveiled a study that found a widespread lack of knowledge towards Zcash from dark web criminals. A study by Rand Corporation unveiled that people using Zcash for illicit or criminal purposes in the dark web may not fully understand the underlying technology.According to the 65-page report published on May 7, the US-based think…