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Jan 6, 2021 at 11:47 p.m. UTCAlipay Logo (Shutterstock)Trump Signs Order to Ban Ma’s Alipay, Other Chinese AppsU.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday banning the Alipay payment platform and seven other apps with links to the Chinese, saying the apps can access private information from their users.Separately, U.S. officials are considering…

Crypto brokerage Blockchain.com received a major payment institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), according to a press release on Monday. The license allows it to provide regulated digital payment token (DPT) services to its global institutional and accredited investor customers.The company had received an in-principle approval from MAS last year."Singapore represents…

Crypto.com has been granted a license to operate specified virtual asset service activities in Dubai, the crypto exchange announced on Tuesday.The license has been granted to its Dubai entity, CRO DAX Middle East FZE, which received a minimal viable product (MVP) preparatory approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) in March.Receiving a full license

Jun 19, 2020 at 14:20 UTCWith BTC miners HODLing, Reddit dreaming big and a crypto card issuer missing billions of dollars and drawing comparisons to Enron, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with another Bitcoin news roundup. For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace.…

U.S. Senator Mike Crapo discussed stablecoins in his opening remarks during a hearing on digitizing money Tuesday. (Chief Mass Communication Specialist F. Julian Carroll/Wikimedia Commons)Senate Banking Committee Remains Open to Idea of Digital Dollar in Tuesday’s HearingNot every U.S. lawmaker is on board with the idea of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) or digital…

Nov 2, 2020 at 11:09 UTCUpdated Nov 2, 2020 at 11:26 UTCBitcoin’s bulls are taking a breather after a double-digit price gain in October. The leading cryptocurrency by market value is trading near $13,500 at press time, representing a roughly 2% decline on the day, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index. The minor decline comes…

news Coinbase customers who need to file taxes in the U.S. this year can get a boost from TurboTax, the tax-filing software offered by Intuit Consumer Tax Group. The companies announced Tuesday that they were teaming up to allow Coinbase and Coinbase Pro clients upload their transactions, gains and losses in 2018 directly to TurboTax…

NounsDAO is heading toward a treasury split in one week’s time after a critical mass of owners of the cutesy, colorful digital collectibles moved to conduct crypto’s latest “rage quit.”Holders with 25% of all Nouns NFTs are thumbing their nose at the project. Rather than trying to sell their NFTs on the open market –

July 29 marks the 100th day since the Bitcoin blockchain cut per block mining rewards to 3.125 BTC from 6.25 BTC. Data from past halvings show the bullish impact of the programmed code takes effect after 100 days. Moving past Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's appearance at the Nashville Bitcoin conference, the crypto community will