Bill seeks to create SEC-CFTC joint committee on digital assets

Mastercard has entered a collaboration that would allow retail customers in the APAC region to spend their stablecoins anywhere Mastercard is accepted. 1033 Total views 4 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTGlobal payment provider Mastercard is launching a stablecoin digital wallet integration with the Australian stablecoin platform Stables.Mastercard…

This year, Oct. 31 marked the 14th anniversary of the issuance of one of this century’s most consequential white papers — Satoshi Nakamoto’s “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Its 2008 publication set off a “revolution in finance” and “heralded a new era for money, one that did not derive its value from governmental edict…

Two Electrum software wallet users have recently reported the loss of large sums of Bitcoin (BTC). One victim described the disappearance of 1,400 BTC, totaling $14,595,000 at press time, while another claimed 36.5 BTC, worth $380,512, as stolen. The events appear connected to a long-standing phishing scam affecting Electrum users since 2018. “Users need to be…

Akoin president Jon Karas says Akon’s crypto city could be the proving ground African economies need. The businessman behind Akon City, the 2,000-acre crypto project in Senegal ‘powered by’  Akoin tokens, has explained how the futuristic $6 billion city will work.Co-founded with singer Akon, the whitepaper for the Akoin cryptocurrency published in March, says it…

Around 13% of the American population — or 43 million people — have held cryptocurrency at some point in their lives, new research from JPMorgan Chase has revealed.According to a Dec. 13 report titled: "The Dynamics and Demographics of U.S. Household Crypto-Asset Use,” this number has risen dramatically since before 2020 when the figure was…

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekUkraine passes legislation to recognize and regulate cryptoThe Ukrainian parliament adopted the…

A new movement dubbed “GoxRising” is calling for a new, accelerated rehabilitation plan for  creditors of the now-defunct Bitcoin (BTC) exchange Mt. Gox, with the long-term goal of rebooting the trading platform. The development was reported in an interview with its author, controversial industry figure Brock Pierce, by TechCrunch Feb. 7.As previously reported, roughly 24,000…

Peter Grosskopf, CEO of the global asset manager Sprott, has posited that blockchain technology will make gold a more valuable and practical asset, according to an interview with Kitco News on May 7.Regarding the day-to-day usability of gold — and how blockchain improves the situation — Grosskopf remarks:“I think it was quite realistic to criticize…

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), the government’s tax collection service, is reportedly auditing investors in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Forbes reports on March 6.Citing sources close to the matter, Forbes states that the CRA has sent extensive questionnaires to investors pertaining to their crypto-related activities in recent years. The questionnaires reportedly run 14 pages long…