Tag Archives: Sweden

In a shocking turn of events, a middle-aged Swedish couple fell victim to a violent home invasion orchestrated by a gang of masked men determined to steal their Bitcoin holdings. This incident, which unfolded earlier this week in the town of Rönninge, south of Stockholm, has highlighted the alarming trend of cryptocurrency-related robberies in Sweden. Sweden’s Rising Trend of Violent Bitcoin Robberies The robbery in Rönninge is described as a serious incident, with one victim...

The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority registered the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange – Binance – as a financial institution for management and trading in virtual currency in the Scandinavian country. This is the seventh EU nation where the platform has received such a license, with the previous six being Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Cyprus, and Lithuania. Binance announced that its Swedish subsidiary – Binance Nordics AB – obtained registration from the...

San Francisco-based blockchain firm, Ripple, announced its first On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) customers in France and Sweden. According to the company, the European market is ripe for disruption with RippleNet-powered ODL. The main aim of the partnerships is to facilitate real-time payments across borders utilizing by Ripple’s financial technology – RippleNet – across the two regions. Ripple’s New Partners in France and Sweden As part of the deal in France, Ripple inked a...

The vice-chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) – Erik Thedéen – urged the EU financial regulators to prohibit the cryptocurrency mining model known as proof-of-work. He also claimed that bitcoin has turned into a “national issue” for his homeland Sweden because of the amount of renewable energy devoted to mining the asset. ‘The Solution Is to Ban Proof-of-Work’ In a recent interview for the Financial Times, Erik Thedéen (also Director-General of...

Not everyone is a bitcoin fan, and now it looks like Sveriges Riksbank – the governor of Sweden’s central bank – is adamant that the world’s number one digital currency is about to collapse, and thus holds no place in modern-day finance. Sveriges Riksbank: Bitcoin Isn’t Going to Make It The digital currency space has come quite far in recent years. The primary asset, bitcoin, has attracted some of the world’s largest and most prominent institutional investors, from...

Sweden’s plans to create a central bank digital currency might be more complicated than initially thought according to a new study published by the nation’s central bank. It estimated that the Scandinavian country could delay the release of the e-krona until 2026. How Does a Cashless Future Look Like? The Riksbank published the results of the first phase of a pilot project exploring an eventual post-cash era and its consequences. The simulation showed that the rapid speed at...

Bitcoin mining continues to earn hate from environmentalists around the world, as the most recent calculations suggest the process requires more energy than the entire country of Sweden. Bitcoin Mining Gets More Expensive as the Price Expands A new report suggests that the higher the price goes, the more energy is needed to extract and mine new coins. Right now, bitcoin is traversing high $50,000 territory; it recently hit a new all-time high of approximately $61,000....

Sweden and Norway have taken the top spots for bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining. Both countries have endured long and wet weather – some of the wettest of the past 20 years. This has given both regions the rainwater they needed to ensure they possess strong, hydroelectric power, which remains some of the cheapest in the world. As a result, many crypto miners are looking at these regions as the top places to set up operations.Sweden and Norway Are the Top Mining NationsAs it stands, much of...