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Faced with stiffening sanctions from Western countries over its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is considering accepting Bitcoin as payment for its oil and gas exports.

The Environmental Conservation Committee of the New York State Assembly advanced a bill that would establish a two-year moratorium on cryptocurrency mining operations to avoid environmental impacts in...

BANGKOK -- Thailand on Wednesday issued a ban against payments using cryptocurrencies and other digital assets that will go into effect next mont

Attorney and crypto legal expert Jeremy Hogan thinks there could soon be a settlement in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Ripple.

On Monday, the multinational investment bank and financial services company Goldman Sachs disclosed it has conducted an over-the-counter (OTC) crypto transaction with the digital currency firm Galaxy Digital. Following the OTC settlement, the head of digi

Crypto analysts are divided on lingering market impact of recent Fed rate hike decisions.

One of the biggest accounting firms in the world says that the underlying technology behind Bitcoin (BTC) is a good starting point for developing an efficient central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Global financial regulators moniitor use of cryptoassets during war in Ukraine

The price of the popular dog-themed meme coin Shiba Inu had plummeted after it reached an all-time high of $0.00007957 last October. However, some investors and industry watchers remain optimistic that Shiba Inu's price will soon skyrocket as burning

The blockchain-tracking service Whale Alert tells its 2.1 million Twitter followers that one crypto whale sent 100 million tokens of XRP from the Crypto.com exchange to an unknown wallet. The full value at time of the transaction was a whopping $76,098,928.

Whale Alert reports that another

A provision that could have forced proof-of-work cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to shift to more environmentally friendly mechanisms failed to get the votes required.

A provision looking to limit proof-of-work cryptocurrencies has made it back into a draft of MiCA up for a parliamentary vote on Monday after having been initially scrapped.

A proposed rule that could effectively amount to a ban on the leading cryptocurrency bitcoin will be voted on by European Union (EU) parliamentarians Monday with the outcome very much undecided. The parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee

The Say No To the Silk Road Act stems from not only the well-known privacy concerns around the Chinese CBDC, but also from worries it could be a tool to evade sanctions.

The Prime Minister of Estonia has said cryptocurrencies must be restricted in order to address loopholes that may be used by sanctioned Russian entities to evade the punitive measures. In addition, the premier wants all Russian as well as Belarusian banks

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has changed the White House calculus on a digital dollar. Launching an official cryptocurrency was not a priority of President Joe Biden's administration. Now his team is embracing an electronic greenback.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on government oversight of cryptocurrency that urges the Federal Reserve to explore whether the central bank should jump in and create its own digital currency.

The order is largely perceived as a step in the right direction that could offer the industry much-needed regulatory clarity.

President Joe Biden is finally ready to move forward with an executive order to coordinate cryptocurrency regulations, per a report.

Last year, institutions traded $1.14 trillion of cryptocurrencies on Coinbase, more than double retail investors' total.