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Why all eyes are turning to MENA for blockchain and digital asset innovation, Mohammad Raafi Hossain, CEO & Co-Founder of Fasset, writes on Nasdaq.com. The West is often seen as the de facto capital for global technology, far overshadowing emerging regions such as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). As the MENA region leapfrogs…

Celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary expects a “trillion dollars” more to flow into Bitcoin in the next couple of years. He wants to more than double his cryptocurrency holdings from 3% of his portfolio to 7% by the end-2021. O’Leary also sees cryptocurrencies becoming an institutional asset class. The “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary talked about…

Bitcoin prices have been doing well lately, while other major cryptocurrencies are outshining Bitcoin with their performance. According to CoinDesk price data, Ether, the second-largest crypto asset by market cap, more than doubled in recent months, while Cardano’s ADA token tripled by the same time. That’s why some investors are wondering whether Bitcoin is still…

According to the Economic Times, the Indian government is planning to compartmentalize virtual currencies and their tax treatment based on their use cases —payments, investment, or utility. Although the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has not granted legal tender status to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, it is eager to charge tax on cryptocurrency investment gains….

Charles Randell, chair of the FCA and Payments Systems Regulator, warned in a new piece written for the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime that over-extending the reach of regulators could backfire in the case of some cryptocurrency tokens. The chair of the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said that there is currently a…

DeFi is changing the way the sector operates by using onramps and integrations across blockchains to make giving to charities easier, writes George Harrap on Cointelegraph. Most of the stories coming out of the crypto industry this past year have centered around enormous numbers flowing in and out of the space. From stablecoins topping over…