Montenegro halts Do Kwon’s extradition again ahead of appeal ruling

Ripple’s Xpring will launch a community web page and forum referred to as “developer relations,” or DevRel, for its developer platform. Most of Xpring’s employees work on the engineering and product side of the table, explained a Feb. 1 blog post on the Xpring website. “We think of DevRel as the ears and mouth of Xpring,”…

Bitcoin transaction fees hit a four-year low on July 7, falling to $38.69. Miners remain profitable due to reduced network difficulty and lower computational power needs.

Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s noteOne of the most persistent myths about Bitcoin is its supposed anonymity. More properly termed pseudonymity, BTC wallets are permanently tied to their public keys. Most of you know that. But it took government investigators years…

Bitcoin (BTC) has made a stellar comeback from its March lows in 2020 and this performance is getting noticed by institutional investors. Recently Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s CIO of fixed income, said that Bitcoin could replace gold as it is “more functional than passing a bar of gold around.”Comments like these are a positive sign as…

A new report warns that the adoption of global stablecoins in emerging markets and developing economies poses significant financial risks and regulatory challenges.

It is now a criminal offense to operate a crypto firm in Ireland without registering with the Central Bank of Ireland. 2504 Total views 22 Total shares Ireland’s crypto businesses have become subject to regulatory oversight for the first time, with local digital asset firms now observing anti-money laundering guidelines set out by the European…

Just a few years ago, it was hard to imagine that a stablecoin would come to represent a significant portion of the cryptocurrency industry. Market players tended to base their money-making strategies on a cryptocurrency’s volatility rather than its stability. There were only 11 stablecoins on the market in 2016, and another 10 were added…

Russia-linked crypto exchange Exmo will no longer provide services to users from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. 178 Total views 10 Total shares London-based cryptocurrency exchange Exmo is the latest crypto trading platform to formally suspend its business in Russia and Belarus due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Exmo is selling its digital asset business in Russia…