Hong Kong’s attitude toward crypto sours after JPEX saga: Survey
41% of respondents said they prefer not to hold virtual assets or cryptocurrencies — up 12 percentage points from an...
Day: 17 October 2023
Coinbase lobbying efforts face setback from Hamas’ crypto use: Berenberg analysts
Reports of Hamas using crypto to fund recent attacks in Israel could make Coinbase’s lobbying efforts more difficult, says Berenberg...
Russian telecoms giant MTS announces ads service targeting Telegram users
Telegram denies that it has entered any advertising-related agreements with Russian companies. Russia’s largest telecommunications firm, MTS, claims it will...
Bitcoin Amsterdam: BTC shines in depths of crypto bear market
Prominent Bitcoin developers and market analysts highlight BTC’s relative performance to the broader cryptocurrency markets at Bitcoin Amsterdam. The Bitcoin...
Reddit to wind down blockchain-based rewards service ‘Community Points’
Reddit will shutter its Community Points feature by Nov. 8, citing scalability issues. Reddit has said it will soon shutter...
Ethereum layer 2 zkEVM ‘Scroll’ confirms mainnet launch
Blockchain data from Etherscan suggest Scroll’s mainnet was live over a week ago. Scroll, a new contender in the zero-knowledge...
Europe’s AML regulations come at a high cost — for your privacy and otherwise
The European Union’s anti-money laundering laws infringe upon personal privacy, and they come with costs that are simply too high....
Binance.US asks users to convert USD into stablecoins for withdrawals
Binance.US users “may convert” their U.S. dollar holdings to stablecoins or other digital assets to withdraw the funds from their...
Google requests dismissal of AI data scraping class-action suit
Google argued in its motion to dismiss the claims that using publicly available information shared on the internet is not...
Pro-crypto lawmaker stays interim US House Speaker as frontrunner loses first round of voting
Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, the Republican Party's nominee for Speaker, won the support of 200 of his colleagues in an...
South Korean regulator outlines steps to enhance digital asset legislation
The Virtual Asset Users Protection Act was passed in June without a sufficient regulatory framework, the head of South Korea’s...
US expands export controls for AI semiconductor chips to China
The expanded export controls of AI semiconductor chips include a new performance threshold, licensing requirements expansions and a notification requirement,...
Fantom Foundation hot wallet hacked for $550K
The Fantom Foundation lost $550,000 worth of cryptocurrency through a vulnerability in the official Fantom wallet.
Fed governor Bowman doubles down on CBDC skepticism, likes stablecoin no better
Michelle Bowman told a university audience that financial innovation should be justified by need and be properly regulated. Federal Reserve...
Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI system, says overall performance ‘on par with ChatGPT’
The Chinese megacorporation claims its newest model rivals OpenAI’s popular model in generating text, images, and video. Baidu, one of...
