Cryptocurrency transactions became a surprising casualty of Canada’s Emergencies Act, invoked for the first time in Canada’s history by the country’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in response to the Freedom Convoy truckers protesting vaccine mandates in order to cross borders. Get the Full Story Complete...
Russian government officials failed to reach consensus Tuesday (Feb. 15) on how to regulate cryptocurrencies, sources told Bloomberg. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged BlockFi with failing to register the offers and sales of its retail crypto lending product on Monday (Feb. 14). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
As the most effective of the so-called privacy coins, Monero is designed specifically to make it impossible for anyone to trace by breaking the chain connecting one transaction to another. But now, it’s facing a potential crisis on its home front as a growing concentration...
In spite of the surge of Super Bowl ads for cryptocurrency trading platforms, often featuring huge stars, there hasn’t been a flood of new users on the platforms’ apps, Bloomberg reported Monday (Feb. 14). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
India cryptocurrency industry representatives met with policymakers from the Finance Ministry to rework parts of the new crypto tax policy, according to a CoinDesk report. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
Cryptocurrencies are like a pyramid scheme and should be banned in India, a deputy governor at the country’s central bank said Monday (Feb. 14). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
The cryptocurrency industry flexed political muscles it didn’t even know it had in August, when it turned the fight about a comparatively small item in the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill into a battle that eventually led to a last-minute scramble by 99 senators to change the...
If the crypto industry has been working hard to overcome public skepticism, the ads companies in it ran in Super Bowl 56 — hyped as the Crypto Bowl — probably didn’t help that much. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
