Fri, January 31

Thailand SEC Announces Opening of Crypto Academy For Investors

Last week, the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the opening of “Crypto Academy.” An initiative to make available educational materials and training programmes on cryptocurrency and related topics. The regulator said that the program’s goal is to educate the public about digital assets and blockchain technology. So that

January 8, 2023 1 min read

Romanian Hospital Struck by Ransomeware Demanding Bitcoin

From December forward, hackers blocked access to the digital medical records of the Saint Gheorghe Recovery Hospital in Botoşani, Northeastern Romania. And demanded payment in crypto for unlocking them. Local news source Monitorul de Botoşani claimed on Tuesday, citing the English-language website Romania Insider, that hackers had compromised the servers,

January 8, 2023 1 min read

Fidelity Reduces Value of Investment in Twitter by More Than Half

Following the backing of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, investment company Fidelity has written down the value of its original share in the social media site. Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund has reduced the carrying value of its Twitter investment by more than 50 percent, as reported in a November

January 8, 2023 1 min read

Kazakhstan Crypto Miners Now Subject To Higher Electricity Charges

Cryptocurrency miners in Kazakhstan have been subject to a progressive scale. For the calculation of their monthly power fees as of January 1. The first universal fee, implemented in the summer of 2021, was 1 Kazakhstani tenge ($0.002) per kilowatt-hour (kWh). But it may currently exceed 25 tenge (above $0.05).

January 7, 2023 1 min read

Bitcoin Mining Hashrate Reaches New All-time High This New Year

This first week of 2023 has been particularly intense for Bitcoin’s computing power, as it set a new milestone and ushered in the year by shattering its previous high point. On 7 January, Bitcoin’s hashrate was reported to be 290 EH/s, having already reached an ATH the day before. ATH

January 7, 2023 1 min read

UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) Announces New Crypto Crime Unit

The National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) Crypto Cell is a new unit of the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) tasked with proactively investigating cryptocurrency-related crime. The NCA has announced that the inaugural squad would consist of five officers working out of the NCCU. While the NCA’s interest in combating crypto

January 5, 2023 1 min read

Iran Returns Confiscated Crypto Mining Hardware After Courts Ruling

The Iranian government’s OCSSOP is giving back some of the mining hardware it confiscated during raids on underground cryptocurrency operations. According to the Financial Tribune, the Iranian courts issued the ruling. The country’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance cited the organization’s chairman, Abdolmajid Eshtehadi as saying: “Currently, some 150,000

January 4, 2023 1 min read

Will Ethereum OverTake Bitcoin Transactions?

Ethereum’s total transactions have more than quadrupled that of Bitcoin. However, BTC remained the most popular crypto in 2022. And, despite the fact that ETH has received more transactions, Bitcoin has remained in the same position. BTC remains the undisputed monarch. According to data from Nasdaq and Ycharts posted on

January 3, 2023 2 mins read

Morocco All Set With Proposed Bill on Cryptocurrency Regulations

The governor of Morocco’s central bank, also known as Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM), Abdellatif Jouahiri, has said that the country’s proposed bill on cryptocurrency is complete and would soon be given to interested parties. Jouahiri, purportedly speaking at a news conference. Stressed that the proposed law’s goal is to safeguard investors

January 3, 2023 1 min read

Former Russian President Backs Digital Fiat Currencies Over Fiat

Russia’s interim leader between Vladimir Putin’s two terms as president Dmitry Medvedev claims that the Bretton Woods monetary system will collapse next year, bringing down the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank with it. This week, he shared his predictions for the year 2023 in a series of funny

January 1, 2023 2 mins read
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