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Sam Bankman-Fried – Chief Executive Officer of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX – believes billionaires like him should get taxed at a higher percentage rate. The crypto boss admitted he plans to donate “almost everything” that he earns in his lifetime to charity causes. Taxing The Rich Sounds Fair Earlier this year, the US government contemplated imposing a new tax rule. A move that sounds good on paper for some – cure the shuttered economy and bring fresh funds into the...

Wells Fargo – a leading American financial services organization – and HSBC Bank – a major British monetary institution – will employ a blockchain-based product to settle matched foreign exchange (Forex) transactions. Through the partnership, the two entities will use a shared ledger to process operations with US dollars, Canadian dollars, British pounds, and Euros. There are also plans to extend to additional currencies in the near future. Blockchain in Forex Transactions...

The cryptocurrency industry is no stranger to costly mistakes, and the last one seems to have happened not so long ago. Just a couple of days ago, the owner Ape #3457 from the Bored Ape Yach Club collection, accidentally sold it for a lot less than it is worth. Source: OpenseaThe NFT marketplace Opensea shows the sequence of the events that led to the unfortunate sale of a Bored Ape worth some $300K for $3K. The former owner bought it for 1 ETH in May this year and has been...

The financial tech company, Nuvei has announced the launch of crypto-friendly debit cards. The rollout, which involves collaboration with the American multinational payment service Visa, will target Nuvei’s partners across the European Economic Area (EEA) and United Kingdom (UK). Crypto-Friendly Debit Cards Simplex – Nuvei’s subsidiary – partnered with Visa to enable its clients to issue crypto debit cards back in December 2020. The fiat-on-ramp service provider is actually a...

Over the ensuing decade, the cryptocurrency industry has evolved from narratives such as “Wild West,” “unregulated,” and “experimental” to an important aspect of the financial infrastructure. It has managed to convert skeptics into advocates and proponents. Today, crypto’s potential is enormous, and Mubadala Investment Company’s CEO and Managing Director Khaldoon Al Mubarak understand that very well. Not a Skeptic In an interview with CNBC, Khaldoon doubled down on the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently published some recommendations on how to effectively regulate the cryptocurrency sector around the world. In a recent blog post, the IMF acknowledged that crypto assets are rapidly revolutionizing the entire global financial system. However, policymakers still struggle to monitor the risks associated with the market. Regulators Must Act Fast The financial institution pointed out that the rapid growth of the crypto space has...

The Prime Minister of India – Narendra Mori – had his official Twitter account. While under the control of the perpetrator, the account published a tweet of a BTC giveaway scam. Narendra Modi is the acting Prime Minister of India, and he got re-elected back in 2019 for another term. His Twitter account has over 73.4 million followers, and, unfortunately, it got compromised earlier today. This was confirmed by the Office of the Prime Minister of India in a separate tweet,...

WikiLeaks is one of the world’s most famous organizations. In its essence, WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization designed to publish news leaks and classified media provided by various anonymous sources. It was founded back in 2006 by Julian Paul Assange – an Australian activist, publisher, and editor. He was arrested in 2019 in London, facing a charge in the United States of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer network in 2010. Since WikiLeaks is a...

Flexa Network has announced Friday that it will support Shiba Inu’s native cryptocurrency – the SHIB token. As such, users will be able to pay with SHIB at what the company claims to be a network of over 40,000 merchants. Flexa is a payments network that partnered with Gemini – one of the leading US-based cryptocurrency exchanges back in 2019. Now, the company announced that it would support SHIB – the native cryptocurrency of the Shiba Inu ecosystem. Let’s get a head start...

The world’s largest digital asset exchange – Binance – reportedly plans to work with Indonesia’s richest family – the Hartono brothers – to establish a cryptocurrency venture on the island. The endeavor would enable the company to enter into a developing country with a population of around 273 million, many of whom lack access to financial services. Binance Eyeing Indonesia The leading digital asset trading venue has faced regulatory backlash from many watchdogs in recent...