We looked at two landmark documents pertaining to cryptocurrency legalization in Europe: the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation (MiCA) and a similar paper from the central bank of Great Britain. These massive and extremely substantive pieces consist of hundreds of pages outlining the European vision of cryptocurrencies’ role and place in the modern world and…

How effective is Bitcoin as a hedge against inflation? Dilip Kumar Patairya on Cointelegraph studied what inflation is and how useful Bitcoin and the other means are to deflate it. Why do you need a hedge against inflation? How effective is Bitcoin as a hedge against inflation? Let us first understand what inflation is and…

Buyers on OpenSea, the world’s leading NFT marketplace, can soon pay for non-fungible tokens without having cryptocurrency – with a credit card, debit card, Google Pay or Apple Pay. This move, which could bring in more newcomers to the NFT space, followed after the announcement of Solana NFT integration. The move comes through a partnership…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (Mar. 26 – Apr. 1, 2022): Mar. 26: Starting in early April, crypto exchange Coinbase Global will require its customers in Canada, Japan and Singapore who send cryptocurrency to non-Coinbase wallets to provide the name, address and, in the case of Japan, the destination wallet of the recipient….

The 19th millionth Bitcoin (BTC) was mined on Friday, a landmark occasion for the world’s first and biggest cryptocurrency. Yet 2 million Bitcoin to be mined until about the year 2140. Meanwhile, Bitcoin network difficulty reached a new all-time high. The Bitcoin (BTC) network reached a milestone on Friday, April 1, 2022, after records show…

European Union lawmakers voted on Thursday in favor of controversial measures to outlaw anonymous crypto transactions, a move the industry said would stifle innovation and invade privacy. Coinbase, Gemini, and other companies denounced the EU’s anti-money-laundering requirements. According to Reuters, the proposals are intended to extend anti-money laundering (AML) requirements that apply to conventional payments…