Crypto and Laws

• BCB Group raises a $60 million Series A round co-led by Foundation Capital

  1 day ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 187

  BCB Group has announced a $60 million Series A investment co-led by Foundation Capital in what it claims is the largest Series A investment for a...

• Italy: New Legislation Liberalizes Domestic Electricity Market

  1 day ago Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 114

  On December 26, 2021,   Legislative Decree No. 210 (L.D. No. 210) entered into effect in Italy, liberalizing the domestic electricity market and...

• Twitter is growing its in-house crypto team

  1 day ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 198

  Twitter is hiring a senior product manager for crypto, according to a tweet by the company's crypto engineering lead Tess Rinearson.  The...

• Bitcoin climbs more than 10% following an ‘extraordinary’ recovery in US equities

  1 day ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 204

  Bitcoin’s price rose more than 11% during Monday afternoon trading after falling precipitously earlier in the day. The fall to monthly lows...

• Following CFTC settlement, prediction platform Polymarket geoblocks trades in the US

  1 day ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 200

  Blockchain-based predictions market Polymarket has added a geoblock to keep US users from trading on the platform.  A representative for the...

• Coinbase hires former SEC counsel to serve as senior public policy manager

  1 day ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 193

  Crypto exchange Coinbase has hired a Securities and Exchange Commission official as its senior public policy manager. Thaya Knight was, until...

• Ribbon Finance: automated options selling strategies

  1 day ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 180

  Quick Take Ribbon Finance automates options selling to harvest and auto-compound premiums for its depositors, abstracting away the complexity...

• Russia’s tech founder voices discontent about proposed crypto ban

  1 day ago Crypto and Laws CryptoSlate 124

  Russia’s apex bank plan to impose a blanket ban on crypto activities like trading and mining has been met with stiff resistance from opposition...

• Macro ‘contagion’ sends bitcoin to lowest level in six months

  2 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 177

  Bitcoin was trading at levels not seen since July as macro concerns impact the cryptocurrency market.  Bitcoin was trading near $33,000 on...

• Bitcoin down 50% amid fear of Fed’s hawkish rate hikes

  2 days ago Crypto and Laws CryptoSlate 185

  This year has been nothing short of a blood bath for bitcoin. The market has not seen a bitcoin ( BTC ) price this low since July last year....

• Dev builds tool that lets you auto-block NFT people on Twitter

  2 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 170

  The hatred on NFTs continues. Since Twitter brought out hexagon-shaped profile pictures for anyone who wants to prove that they own the NFT...

• South Korea begins exploring crypto as household asset

  2 days ago Crypto and Laws Cryptopolitan 152

  TL;DR Breakdown • South Korean authorities are planning to include cryptocurrency in the annual household finance survey. • This could set...

• JPMorgan Chase closes Uniswap founder’s bank accounts

  2 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 222

  Uniswap founder Hayden Adams tweeted Sunday that JPMorgan Chase has closed his bank accounts without notice or explanation. "I know many...

• France: Law on Economic and Professional Gender Equality Adopted

  2 days ago Crypto and Laws Library of Congress 163

  On December 24, 2021, France adopted a new law to promote gender equality in the workplace and in the economy at large. This law, sometimes...

• [SPONSORED] Sygnum Bank ’22 Outlook: tipping point for institutional crypto adoption

  2 days ago Crypto and Laws TheBlockCrypto 189

  Sygnum Bank’s Digital Asset Outlook 2022 report analyses the developments that shaped the crypto industry in 2021, and lays out Sygnum’s...