Category: FINANCE

These so-called ‘mixer’ services are supposedly a way to make crypto transactions more private, but they’re being used to obscure criminal funding. ( read original story ...)

Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law Friday banning the use of crypto payments for goods and services. ( read original story ...)

Lawmakers found crypto mining is responsible for a "significant — and rapidly growing — amount of carbon emissions." And they want the EPA to do something about it. ( read original story ...)

Embattled crypto exchange Coinbase will be temporarily shutting down its affiliate-marketing program on July 19. ( read original story ...)

Little is known about the full scope of cryptomining activity,' lawmakers including Sen. Elizabeth Warren tell the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. ( read original story ...)

Japan's government will forgo setting a ceiling on defense spending in next fiscal year's annual budget, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Saturday. The government usually sets a ceiling on spending ... ( read original story ...)

Antoni Martin, enterprise lead at Polygon, wasn’t happy about the crypto crash. But he thinks that this is the time to “differentiate between speculation and build.” He’s done his own share of ... ( read original story ...)

About 1 in 5 employees at OpenSea have been laid off, according to CEO Devin Finzer. In total, the company cut 20% of its workforce. Finzer posted a screenshot of a slack message, where he discussed ... ( read original story ...)

"The public is largely unprotected due to non-compliance in this space," Gensler said in an interview with Yahoo Finance on Friday. ( read original story ...)

The current crypto collapse results from macroeconomic factors, including the U.S. Federal Reserve raising interest rates to counter inflation. ( read original story ...)

Company says it was faced with ‘run on the bank’ amid ‘cryptopocalypse’ as investors raced to withdraw assets ... ( read original story ...)

The crypto markets might be red all over, but that isn’t stopping many venture capitalists from investing in the space. ( read original story ...)

Disney has amusement parks, a film studio, television channels (ABC, ESPN...) a streaming platform (Disney+), iconic characters like Mickey Mouse. And last but not least, Disney is a brand known ... ( read original story ...)

Criminals using bitcoin on the Silk Road, the online black market for illegal goods like drugs and weapons, have tainted the cryptoasset’s reputation for years. But for Neil Baker, it was the bust of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki warned on Friday (Jul 15) against "speculative moves" seen behind a rapid yen weakening, using the strongest wording to date as the yen weakened to ... ( read original story ...)

"I'm concerned about recent sharp yen weakening," Suzuki told reporters, adding that the government would liaise with the Bank of Japan while closely watching currency moves more urgently. "We will ... ( read original story ...)