The US Federal Reserve Chair Pro Tempore Jerome Powell, while testifying before the House Financial Services Committee on the state of the economy, said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could…
The provision that proposed to ban cryptocurrencies with proof-of-work (PoW) mining, such as bitcoin, has been removed from the updated version of the European Union (EU)’s Markets in Crypto Assets…
The President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, on Friday 26 February 2022, called for the quick approval of regulation for Bitcoin in order to prevent Russia from…
The South African Treasury announced that it is anticipating the amendments to the country’s financial laws to be finalized in June 2022. The amendments will enable crypto asset service providers…
The Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) in mid-February 2022 voted in favour of the amendments proposed by the country’s President to the Law on Virtual Assets. Up to 272 Members of…
The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) has revealed plans to regulate the country’s fintech space, according to a report by CoinDesk on 14 February 2022. As part of the plans, the…
IThe Russian government and the Central Bank of Russia have agreed to accept bitcoin as a currency. This is coming barely four months after El Salvador also adopted bitcoin, but…
In late January 2022, the Senate of the State of Arizona—the Fifty-fifth Legislature during its Second Regular Session in 2022—proposed “AN ACT AMENDING TITLE 1, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, BY ADDING…
Nigeria’s blockchain association and one of the leading communities in the country’s emerging blockchain & crypto industry, the Stakeholders in Blockchain Association of Nigeria (SiBAN), on Saturday 5 February…
On Tuesday 1 February 2021, the news that Botswana lawmakers had passed a bill to regulate trading in cryptocurrencies and digital tokens in the country traveled far and wide. The…