Taiwan’s Crypto Industry Welcomes Regulatory Announcement

A “crypto year” is often said to pack one year of innovation into a time span that would normally take seven. Like dog years. That said, institutions don’t move in crypto years when adopting innovation. They test and slowly build behind the scenes and those projects are starting to bloom just like spring flowers and

Oct 6, 2020 at 22:03 UTCUpdated Oct 6, 2020 at 22:40 UTCAn official for China’s central bank has unveiled usage statistics of state-backed digital currency trials that were conducted in three Chinese cities.Speaking virtually at the Sibos 2020 conference on Monday, Fan Yifei, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, said the bank opened…

A poll funded by Grayscale provides the newest snapshot of voters' crypto views, and it reflects an increase in prominence of digital assets as a political issue. Also out Monday, Coinbase released an analysis of crypto voters, showing the block of voters who care a lot about digital assets could be more than enough to

At 12th place globally, New York City came in fifth among the U.S. hubs in CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023. Many of the Crypto Hubs’ criteria were measured on a national basis, so all the U.S. hubs were hampered by a middling crypto regulatory score – part of the drivers category and the single-most heavily weighted…

NEWS A patent application published Thursday claims the process of conducting scientific research can benefit from the blockchain. Led by a team at IBM’s Watson Research Center, the patent application presents a vision for dynamic collaboration – one where researchers can track their work across institutional borders. It’s another non-financial application of the distributed-ledger technology, which…

news With the price of bitcoin surging to a yearly high Monday, the South Korean government has held an emergency meeting over the risk of losses for investors, CoinDesk Korea reports. Noh Hyeong-ouk, minister for the Office for Government Policy Coordination, announced the inter-agency meeting in a government statement earlier on Tuesday, saying participants included…

NEWS Aug 29, 2018 at 13:10 UTC An Australian federal agency is developing a blockchain that will allow businesses to carry out transactions based on smart legal contracts. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) said on Wednesday that its research arm, Data61, is working with law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and IBM to…

Bitcoin (BTC) and BNB trim losses suffered Tuesday as Binance's CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao's guilty plea and the exchange's criminal settlement are seen boosting odds of an eventual approval of a spot-based bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the U.S.As of writing, BTC traded close to $36,400, having tanked over 4.5% to $35,700 Tuesday. BNB changed

Controversial crypto platform Prometheum continues to signal its seriousness about moving forward as the industry's sole U.S. special-purpose crypto broker-dealer, having now hired a chief financial officer with a Wall Street pedigree from the likes of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.Albert Meo was Morgan Stanley's executive director for regulatory policy and boasts a