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Mamoru Yanase said crypto needs the same safeguards as financial institutions and banks. 309 Total views 3 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTFinancial regulators in Japan have urged global regulators to treat crypto the same way as they do banking, calling for tougher rules for the sector.According to…

Winklevoss brothers’ cryptocurrency exchange Gemini continues expanding in Europe, announcing new regulatory approvals in Italy and Greece.Gemini has registered as a virtual currency operator with Italy’s payments services regulator, the Organismo Agenti E Mediatori (OAM), the firm announced on Nov. 30.The crypto exchange has also received registration as a custodial wallet provider and provider of…

One of Argentina's youngest deputies is prepping new legislation to provide a national framework for crypto, which will reportedly hit the parliament next week. 1910 Total views 21 Total shares Argentine congressman Ignacio Torres plans to present a bill addressing cryptocurrencies to the Argentine Parliament. Cointelegraph en Español spoke with Efraín Barraza, Operations Manager of…

The Zcash Foundation, the firm behind privacy-centric cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC), has donated $40,000 to a Canadian private messaging developer. The Open Privacy Research Society, a non-profit group working on Cwtch, a decentralized metadata-resistant messenger, has received 1,044 ZEC from Zcash, the organization announced on Dec. 3.As described by Open Privacy, Cwtch is a platform for…

Bitcoin (BTC) bears looked on in disbelief as BTC price rallied to over $57,800 on Feb. 21, sparking a major altcoin rally. It seems bull flags are being printed one after the other on coins like Polkadot and Cardano, which are playing out predictably. However, one coin that is not getting the limelight it deserves right…

The filing specifies that Valkyrie’s ETF may invest up to 10% of its net assets in securities of Bitcoin mining firms, as well as up to 5% in the securities of pooled investment vehicles in the U.S. that hold BTC. 174 Total views 10 Total shares Crypto asset manager Valkyrie has launched an exchange-traded fund…

Cryptocurrency payment services firm BitPay has partnered with tax-related financial products company Refundo to enable people to get a portion of their tax refund back in bitcoin (BTC). The development was announced in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on April 30.Refundo’s new product dubbed CoinRT allows taxpayers to receive all or a portion of…

The CFTC continues its roll of crypto announcements this week in a recent fraud bust-up. On Friday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission made a fraudster pay back $7.4 million to investors while vowing to protect the Bitcoin market.Per the CFTC's announcement, James McDonald, Director of the commission's enforcement division, said The CFTC will continue working to protect…