Tag: Bitcoin

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Coinbase Financial Markets has achieved a significant milestone by receiving regulatory clearance from the National Futures Association (NFA), a CFTC-designated self-regulatory body.

A blogpost by European Central Bank representatives has remarked that the current turmoil being seen in the crypto markets is ‘Bitcoin’s last stand’. 

The Central African Republic has become the second country globally to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency following El Salvador’s introduction last year.

The People’s Bank of China (POB) has officially announced that all transactions including cryptocurrencies are illegal with immediate effect.

The government of El Salvador has passed a bill that will see Bitcoin join the US dollar as legal tender in the country.

UK retail bank NatWest will not accept payments in cryptocurrencies, according to the company’s head of risk Morten Friis.

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has told the Bank of England (BOE) to look at the case for a potential ‘Britcoin’ or central-bank-backed digital currency.

A top financial regulator from Florida is hoping to modernise the state’s policy stance on cryptocurrencies, banking and securities to become more competitive.

More than half of the world's cryptocurrency money laundering is made through 270 service deposit addresses, according to new research.