According to a company statement, the financial index provider S&P Dow Jones has launched five new cryptocurrency index products, bringing its total number of crypto indices to eight. It’s the first major expansion of S&P’s crypto benchmarking tools since entering the market in May. Headlining the tranche is a “broad digital market (BDM)” index that…

The British police confiscated £180 million or about $250 million worth of digital assets as part of a thorough investigation for money laundering. The operation was marked as the largest seizure ever executed in the United Kingdom. That’s a record for the Metropolitan Police service, which oversees law enforcement for the Greater London area, breaking…

Could blockchain technology become something more than a basis for digital money and applications for various activities, from commerce to governance? Is it possible that the entire Internet will be based on distributed ledger technology? Today, there is a lot of conversations about different concepts of Web 3.0 – after all, the Internet is evolving,…

The digital ownership conferred by blockchain will allow the Metaverse to fulfill its true potential as community-owned and community-governed, writes Yat Siu on Cointelegraph. Every day, we hear of more involvement by big industry players (for example, Epic Games and Roblox) as we creep closer to the Metaverse, a shared persistent virtual environment of interconnected…

As Gulf News reported, the United Arab Emirates plans to implement a central bank digital currency (CBDC) as early as 2023, as outlined in a road map for the UAE economic future. According to the three-year plan for 2023-2026 that announces the launch of its digital currency, the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) intends…

The U.S. Federal Reserve singled out a surge in the price of cryptocurrencies for the first time in its overall assessment of the stability of the financial system. According to Bloomberg, the regulator noted the rise reflected the increased risk appetite by investors. The brief comment about “the surge in the prices of a variety…

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank argue to the G20 that central bank-issued digital currencies (CBDC) will benefit worldwide development. In a new joint report, they have proposed to create a cross-border network of central bank digital currencies (CBDC), underpinned by efficient technological integration and proactive…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (3 – 9 July 2021): 03 July: Bitcoin mining becomes more profitable, as China’s crackdown against crypto brings a significant part of miners to go offline and is relocating to other countries. 04 July: As cryptocurrencies remain a major source of investment, it still remains major questions about…

The crypto community, like any other large community, has its own myths and legends. Among them is the opinion that the American dollar will soon lose its significance and depreciate due to the crippling inflation, and then the crypto will become the main world currency. Let’s dispel this illusion. In the spring of 2020, at…

The Mechanicville, NY plant, an old hydroelectric power plant built in 1897, is now taken to mining Bitcoin using a share of the power produced. It’s an inspiring example of using renewable energy for mining amid criticism over carbon footprint. “We think this is the oldest renewable energy facility in the world that’s still running,”…