CFTC chair’s exit, Russia’s Bitcoin seizure, Kenya’s IMF warning: Law Decoded

Bitcoin (BTC) faces a challenging week as $9,000 support fades and uncertainty increases after the halving — what should you look out for in the coming days?Cointelegraph’s weekly summary takes a look at five factors likely to influence Bitcoin’s price action in the short term. Miner outflows fuel BTC price pressureThe weekend’s trading saw fresh downside…

The two main factors driving mass adoption are converging, says Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek. Watch Cointelegraph’s latest interview with Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek to understand the catalysts that will push crypto to 200 million users. For more crypto and blockchain content, check out and subscribe to Cointelegraph’s YouTube Channel!When adoption?It took over a decade for…

The world's leading payment services provider processed $145.60 million worth of Bitcoin trades on the day BTC rallied to its record high of $67,000. 2430 Total views 24 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) trading volumes on global payment service provider PayPal reached $145.60 million on Oct. 20, just as the benchmark crypto rallied toward its record…

European researchers writing for the Oxford University Faculty of Law blog argue that the distinction between utility and security tokens is less important than most assume when it comes to regulation.  In a Feb. 3 blog post and their paper, “Blockchain Startups and Prospectus Regulation,” Dmitri Boreiko, Paolo Giudici and Guido Ferrarini claim that the conceptual…

HSBC Bangladesh has completed the country’s first blockchain-powered cross-border trade settled using a letter of credit. 1957 Total views 36 Total shares The Bangladesh branch of global banking firm HSBC has conducted the country’s first blockchain-based letter of credit (LC) transaction on the Contour DLT platform.The transaction was used to settle the importation of 20,000…

South Korean technology behemoth LG applied for the “ThinQ Wallet” trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on July 2, data published on the official office’s website shows.According to the filing documents, the trademark is for services concerning transaction and settlement services, mobile banking, “issuance of cyber money,” and “payment application software…

After a tumultuous 2020 that continued into Bitcoin (BTC) setting new all-time highs in 2021, Bitcoin miners are facing a bittersweet scenario — profits have skyrocketed, but multiple issues prevent them from buying more devices and boosting Bitcoin’s hash rate.According to the founder of major mining pool BTC.Top, Jiang Zhuoer, global electronics supply chain issues…

Estonia-based cryptocurrency BitBay has been offline for 18 hours now, citing problems caused by a third-party service provider.On March 26, BitBay tweeted that it was struggling with a “network problem” resulting from their “external service provider.” The exchange stated that it had contacted the provider and was working on resolving the problem.Founded in Poland in…

Bitcoin losses hurt more as the price goes up. Joel Birch, co-founder of automated crypto investment platform Stacked, detailed his initial dive into Bitcoin (BTC) as a way of gambling on the internet. "I bought my first Bitcoin because I was playing Blackjack online," Birch told Cointelegraph in an interview. "Bitcoin was about $250 a piece,…