Breaking crypto news from the last week (24 – 30 July 2021): 24 July: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sees Bitcoin as a big part of Twitter’s future and forecasts its integration into Twitter services and new features, including Twitter Tip Jar and Super Follows. 25 July: In various experts’ opinions, Bitcoin has proven to be…

Could DeFi revolutionize finance? And can regulators do something about it? Chris Matthews reflects in his MarketWatch column, while Washington is paying close attention to this $100 billion movement. More than a decade after its creation, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have failed to achieve the dream of a new, widely-used global currency free from the…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claimed settled charges against UK-based Coinschedule. The Coinschedule platform that reviewed upcoming initial coin offerings (ICOs) from 2016 to August 2019 was providing overviews of which ones were more or less fraud. According to the SEC’s July 14 order: “The platform claimed to ‘list’ or profile the ‘best’…

The financial world is rapidly getting rebuilt using blockchain. China is ahead of its geopolitical rivals, having already adopted the digital yuan; and both businesses and private investors are putting billions in crypto and DeFi with zero central bank regulations. In these conditions, the Fed and the ECB are forced to accelerate. I confess that…