Regulation

Italy’s data protection agency Garanate has set out multiple conditions for OpenAI to implement and comply with the GDPR rules. In March 2023, the European Nation of Italy announced a ban on OpenAI’s newly released told ChatGPT, which has created a storm in the tech world. This happened on the charges of breaching data privacy rules in Italy. In the latest development, Italy’s data protection agency Garanate suggested certain actions that OpenAI must take in order to revoke the imposed...

The decision coincides with the announcement of stricter crypto regulation by the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA). As crypto regulation broadens in Canada, blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos has announced plans to shut down its operations in Canada. In a statement published on the company website, the firm advised its Canadian customers to begin withdrawing any funds from their accounts. “Beginning June 2nd, you will no longer be able to transact from your Paxos account,” it...

At a Hong Kong media event, the Binance CEO stressed the importance of all-round active engagement in creating effective crypto regulations. Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao recently weighed in on the formation of crypto regulations as a guiding principle over the digital asset class. According to Zhao, regulators need a deep understanding of digital currencies to formulate proper rules for effective oversight. The Binance CEO also added that regulatory clarity can only be reached via...

The Chinese tax authority claim Bitmain was issued with a tax violations notice in August last year but has withheld paying individual tax income of about $2.4 million. Bitmain Technologies Ltd., a Beijing-based company that is well known for designing application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips used in Bitcoin mining, has reportedly been fined approximately 25 million Chinese yuan, equal to about $3.7 million, for allegedly failing to pay personal income taxes in China....

Former Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania – who ended his congressional career in early January of this year when he chose not to run for another term – recently offered his thoughts on the crypto space and the fall of FTX. Pat Toomey on FTX and Crypto In the interview, Toomey said that if Congress had taken the time to implement appropriate crypto legislation and monitor the space, FTX likely never would have existed on the scale that it did. He said: It’s not clear...

Crypto regulation has been at the forefront of many Congress-led discussions for the past several years, but while democrats have spent a long time talking about it, they haven’t acted, and quite frankly, given the fact that so many of them have accepted donations from entities like Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX notoriety, we probably don’t want them getting involved in regulation in the first place. Is Regulation Finally Coming? It now looks like republicans are taking it...

The federal government is looking to regulate crypto mining in the United States, and Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis isn’t happy about that. Cynthia Lummis Wants to Leave Crypto Mining Alone Since entering Congress in early 2021, Lummis (a republican) has widely been labeled as a friend to crypto given she’s invested in bitcoin before. She’s also developed a new bill that would carve out rules and regulations for establishing all future crypto bills in the U.S. in the...

In the push to launch its own version of ChatGPT, Alibaba Cloud will need to take in account the impact of regulations in China and the influence of competitors. Alibaba Cloud, one of the major subsidiaries of Chinese multinational tech giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (HKG: 9988), is reportedly set to launch its own ChatGPT rival in what has become a major frenzy in today’s tech world. As reported by Bloomberg, Alibaba Cloud has been sending invitation codes to some of its corporate...

Korean officials have linked approximately 91.4 billion won, worth about $69 million, in digital assets directly to Do Kwon. South Korea officials continue to grill former Terraform Labs co-founder Kwon Do-Hyung, popularly known as Do Kwon, following his arrest earlier last month in Montenegro as he attempted to flee to Dubai. The collapse of Terra Luna and its algorithmic stablecoin UST led to a loss of over $40 billion from the crypto market. As a result, the entire cryptocurrency...

InCore Bank will offer Ethereum (ETH) staking to their clients using SDX Web3 services. ETH staking will become an important yield opportunity when the upcoming Shapella Release is implemented as this will enable the withdrawal of ETH coins that are allocated to staking. InCore Bank can now offer Ethereum staking capabilities that are fully compliant with Know-Your-Client (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) regulations to their clients. In this collaboration, InCore Bank provides crypto...