The government of Australia has hinted it’s going to be implementing cryptocurrency regulations in 2023. The announcement comes on the heels of the FTX collapse, which will likely go down as one of the biggest embarrassments of the crypto space. Australia Could Regulate Crypto Next Year Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers has stated that regulators are eager to ensure crypto traders remain protected. Chalmers acknowledges that digital currency trading in Australia is...
Read More »Congressional House Committee Vows to Investigate FTX
The House Financial Services Committee has said that it is opening an investigation into fallen cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its disgraced head executive Sam Bankman-Fried. FTX Will Be the Subject of a Congressional Inquiry The announcement came from Maxine Waters, a democrat from California that heads the committee. She stated that the team also expects Bankman-Fried to testify on what occurred and hinted that Congress is using what happened with the company to get...
Read More »Brazilian President Signs Off on National Crypto Rules
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has approved a bill of crypto industry regulations most recently passed by the nation’s Senate and Chamber of Deputies. The bill, signed into law on Thursday, will take effect in 180 days, by which time crypto companies in the region must adapt to the new rules. Having passed through Parliament in late November, the bill would make it possible for crypto firms to register in the country and establish physical offices. These include firms...
Read More »RBI Officials Go All Bearish on Crypto in New Call for Prohibition
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Read More »Coinbase CEO Calls for Regulation of Centralized Crypto Entities
Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, for one, believes that ideal crypto regulations should start with centralized actors since most of the damage to the consumers has been done by these entities. In a recently released “realistic blueprint,” Armstrong highlighted the need to pursue legislation early instead of waiting for something comprehensive and perfect. Regulations should initially focus on centralized actors in crypto, such as – stablecoin issuers, exchanges, and...
Read More »Grayscale CEO Will Consider Massive Share Buyback if SEC Lawsuit Fails
Grayscale may consider a 20% tender offer on GBTC shares if its bid to convert into a Bitcoin spot ETF ultimately fails, said CEO Michael Sonnenshein to investors on Monday. In an interview on the same day, the executive also commented on the FTX’s collapse, the crypto bear market, and the state of Binance. Shoring Up GBTC In a conversation with CNBC, Sonnenshein acknowledged that the industry is going through a “crypto winter,” which will produce more “regulation” and...
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Read More »Half a Billion in Crypto Goes Missing from FTX Exchange
Nearly half a billion dollars has been taken out of the now failed FTX exchange, and nobody really seems to know where the money went. Money Is Missing from FTX Spokespeople for the crypto exchange claim that “unauthorized transactions” are what caused the money to disappear, and it is being said that the company might have been hacked and the money stolen. The question is, “By who?” At the time of writing, the company has moved whatever funds it still had into cold...
Read More »Brad Sherman: Billionaires Have Prevented Crypto Regulation from Forming
Brad Sherman – a cryptocurrency skeptic and congressman – says crypto billionaires are largely responsible for the fact that digital asset regulation has taken so long to arrive. Brad Sherman Wants Regulation NOW In a recent interview, Sherman said that the collapse of the leading exchange FTX in mid-November is reason enough to get the ball rolling on digital currency regulation. He mentioned: The collapse this week of one of the largest cryptocurrency firms in the...
Read More »TrueUSD Launches TCNH, a TRON-Based Stablecoin Pegged to Offshore Chinese Yuan
[PR – San Francisco, United States, 15th December, 2022, Chainwire] We are thrilled to announce that the TrueUSD team is launching a new product called TCNH, which is a stablecoin pegged to Offshore Chinese Yuan (CNH) at 1:1. TCNH will be deployed on one of the fastest growing public blockchains, TRON, where users can obtain, hold, and trade the token. It is worth noting that TCNH is a stablecoin pegged to Offshore Chinese Yuan (CNH). By definition, offshore currencies are...
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