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Tom Tugendhat, a member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, urged the nation towards implementing more innovations in its financial sphere. Interestingly, he also outlined the growth of the cryptocurrency sector and hinted he was more bullish on ether rather than bitcoin. UK Member of Parliament Bullish on ETH Tugendhat is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee since 2017. He has also been a member of the UK...

A UK-based bank, NatWest, will reportedly halt serving customers who accept payments in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The institution referred to recent warnings highlighted by the country’s financial regulator and said dealing with digital assets contains high risk. UK Bank Stops Working With Crypto Users According to The Guardian coverage, National Westminster Bank, known as NatWest, plans to bar serving all customers accepting crypto payments. Morten Friis, the...

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) noted that there has been a rising interest in cryptocurrencies from the younger generation, especially among women under age 40. The regulator said that most of these investors could not withstand the heavy losses associated with this form of investment.Young People Invest In Crypto For The “Thrills” Per the report, the FCA said its study showed that young people mostly delve into crypto investments because of the thrill and idea of owning a stake...

Coin Floor – a cryptocurrency exchange in the United Kingdom – is taking some flack over a recent ad that allegedly took aim at pensioners. The ad talked about the benefits of crypto investing, though it has since been banned by national regulators. Coin Floor Sees Its Ad Get Knocked Down The ad has been deemed “socially irresponsible” and “misleading,” as according to official complaints, it did not address the many risks associated with cryptocurrency investing. In a...

Around one-third of UK-based investors believe they have missed their chances to get on the bitcoin bandwagon on time, so they would prefer to stay out of the market entirely, showed a recent survey. Nevertheless, they believe that the first-ever cryptocurrency hasn’t halted its bull run and will continue north to $70,000 or even $140,000 this year.UK Investors Regret not Buying BTC?The research compiled by the UK think tank Parliament Street and the independent polling company Censuswide...

The first consequences from the FCA ban on crypto derivatives trading in the UK are evident for the popular digital asset exchange Bybit. The company announced earlier that it will suspend its services to all customers based in the United Kingdom. Established in 2018, Bybit is a cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in Singapore with a reported user base of over one million registered clients. However, the firm will seize offering its services to UK-based customers, according to a recent...

The former CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group, Xavier Rolet, has advised the UK government to look into cryptocurrencies and SPACs to minimize the adverse impact of Brexit. In a recent report, Rolet claimed that the UK has trailed behind other countries in both aspects.The UK Should Turn To Crypto And SPACs?Born in France, Rolet is a businessman and the Chief Executive Officer of the London-based credit-focused asset management firm CQS. Before assuming this position, though, he served as...

The narrative that bitcoin is rarely used for payment transactions has been debunked by several fields in the span of a week. Apart from Swiss residents being able to pay their canton taxes in BTC or Portuguese citizens paying their electricity bills, a UK-headquartered private jet charter company said that nearly 20% of its yearly revenue came in the form of the primary cryptocurrency.PrivateFly Gets 19% Of Revenue In BTCFounded in 2005, PrivateFly is a global private jet charter company...

PayPal will probably avert from investing its cash into Bitcoin. Despite the recently expanding interest from institutions in digital assets, the US payment giant will not get into the crypto whirlpool, said the firm’s Chief Financial Officer.Admitting Cryptocurrency’s Values but Still Won’t InvestAlthough it sees enormous opportunity in the development of digital wallets, PayPal will most likely not allocate portions of its cash into Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. According to a recent...

A 19-year old UK resident was jailed for a drug trafficking operation. He had participated in an attempt to import ecstasy bought with Bitcoin on the Dark Web.Buying Dark Web Ecstasy with BitcoinThe 19-year-old drug dealer is to serve two years in prison after a police investigation discovered he has been dealing with ecstasy using Bitcoin. According to a recent report, Dylan Bailey from Arbury Road, Nuneaton, UK, used to import ecstasy tablets from abroad, aiming to sell the illegal...