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Europe is about to take a major step towards “Sinification” by introducing total control over the cryptocurrency operations of its citizens. European regulators decided that they had found a way of denying anonymity to any cryptocurrency dealings. Ever since the first real crypto boom in 2017, European financial regulators have taken an ambivalent position regarding…

This is more of an assumption, but the progression of events, the documents being adopted, and the author’s own information sources all indicate that the state digital currency of the Union State of Russia and Belarus could arrive completely out of the blue. The dramatic events unfolding in Belarus since August of last year are…

We continue to study platforms used for creating different blockchain projects: stablecoins, DeFi, synthetic assets. Today on the agenda is Terra [LUNA]. On July 16, the Terra [LUNA] crypto project team announced that it had received $ 150 million in investments to develop its ecosystem. The investments came from a pool of 23 large funds…

Every once in a while it helps to stop, get away from the hustle and bustle of exchange rates and new tokens, look around and try to understand the role of cryptocurrencies in the world today and what it will be in 10 or 20 years. After all, everyone seems to have already realized that…

DubaiCoin positioned itself as a regular cryptocurrency, specialized for the UAE market. Its DBIX tokens were traded on various exchanges, and the roadmap looked quite attractive. But it was all a scam. In May of this year, the attention of the cryptocurrency community was drawn to the DubaiCoin digital currency (DBIX token). As stated in…

The popular cryptocurrency exchanger ShapeShift is moving to a decentralized mode of operation. From now on, it will be a DAO controlled by FOX token holders. Switzerland-based multinational company ShapeShift is preparing to close down as a registered legal entity. According to its founder Erik Voorhees, ShapeShift currently employs 65 people, but in a few…