Regulation

Another day, another bad news for the people of Venezuela. Paxful has decided to stop supporting the country, giving users 30 days to withdraw their funds and preventing any new sign-ins.Throughout the day, users of the platform received an email, in which Paxful warned it had to “close its operations” in Venezuela after months of hard work:“Although we made our best efforts during several months, we are sad to announce that, in view of the concern for the regulatory scenario, Paxful will...

The Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a proposed cryptocurrency regulation guideline while classifying crypto assets as securities.Crypto Regulations UnderwayAccording to an official release on Monday (September 14, 2020), the Nigeria SEC announced that the commission is looking at a three-pronged approach towards regulating the crypto industry. The SEC also stated that the aim of the proposed regulation was to promote market efficiency and transparency and not...

It looks like another congressman has caught the bitcoin bug. Darren Soto – a democratic representative of the state of Florida – has announced that his reelection campaign this year will accept cryptocurrency donations and payments.Darren Soto Has His Eye on BlockchainSoto seems to believe that blockchain has what it takes to lead the U.S. into a new digital age. He’s also confident that the technology offers more benefits than many analysts seem to give it credit for. In a recent interview,...

Bitcoin regulation has always been a rather controversial subject. On the one hand, the cryptocurrency is designed to stand alone and give people the chance to garner financial independence. However, if there is no regulation whatsoever for the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, things could wind up very bad with the space, and cybercrime and other malicious activity could continue to meander throughout the arena without limits.Steven Parker: Bitcoin Must Be Regulated...

A few days after being hacked and drained for $5.4 million worth of digital assets, the European cryptocurrency exchange Eterbase claimed that it had tracked part of the stolen funds to Binance, Huobi, and HitBTC.The company asked for assistance from those exchanges and reassured its users that Eterbase will endure.$5.4M In Crypto Stolen From EterbaseLaunched in 2019, Eterbase is a relatively small Slovakia-based platform that describes itself as “the first regulation-compliant European...

One of the big problems that everyone seems to have with bitcoin and crypto is that they are not as regulated as other financial markets. For the most part, they are designed to be decentralized and give more monetary power to users, but without any regulation at all, things are bound to get out of hand.Bitcoin Regulation May Take On a Different FormNow, some are promoting the idea of bitcoin being regulated the way India regulates its stock market. The idea comes from Deepak Kapoor, a...

The state of California has long played with the idea of leaving the union and becoming its own region. In other words, it would look to stand alone and sever any ties to the United States.California Looks to Become an “Island”Known as “Calexit” (similar with “Brexit” in the United Kingdom), the state of California would not be governed by U.S. federal regulators and look to potentially govern itself. One of the biggest steps in the movement to break California’s attachment to the American...

In the last few years, the blockchain industry has shifted from being a rather niche market mostly comprised of experimental technologies and fledging protocols, to a multi-billion dollar industry full of fintech unicorns and novel platforms that promise to disrupt traditional finance and practically every other industry.Although many countries have been racing to position themselves as a global hub for blockchain, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Asia is forming the epicenter of...

As the Binance Card represents a crypto payment tool by design, the product’s functioning in Russia also raises a number of questions.World’s biggest Bitcoin and altcoin crypto exchange by volume Binance decided not to give up its plans of launching the Binance Card in Russia in spite of the imminent ban on crypto payments in this country.Binance is speeding up the arise of its crypto debit card in Russia according to a senior executive Gleb Kostarev. Kostarev, who is a Binance’s head of...

Russia’s On Digital Financial Asset (DFA) legislation has received yet another set of proposed amendments that can push the country into launching a full-scale ban on cryptocurrency usage, with three exceptions – inheritance, bankruptcy, and enforcement proceedings.Russia’s DFA Sees New PropositionsThe world’s largest country by landmass has been rather indecisive, to say the least, in its approach towards cryptocurrency regulations. The nation successfully passed the DFA bill in July after...