Nepal’s telecommunications regulator has ordered the country’s internet service providers (ISPs) to block all cryptocurrency trading websites, threatening legal action against those that fail to comply. In a Jan. 8 notice, the Nepal…
Two similar legal disputes around alleged bitcoin scams show that, while Bitcoin may be incorruptible, human beings are not. This is an opinion editorial by Phil Snyder, an educator teaching blockchain, Bitcoin and…
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried landed in the United States on Dec. 21. And, at least till the end of his court cases, he will live with his parents in Palo Alto, California….
Paraguay’s plans to regulate the crypto mining industry have come to a screeching halt after lawmakers nixed the country’s “Crypto Law” on Monday. The bill, which was set to create a tax and…
The European Union is set to release an energy efficiency label from Bitcoin and proof-of-work cryptocurrencies in an effort to deter energy consumption, per a report from Bloomberg. The European Commission is reportedly…
“We are pleased with the court’s thorough and well-reasoned decision to remove Roche Freedman LLP as interim class counsel,” a Bitfinex spokesperson told Decrypt in an email. “Roche Freedman’s repeated attempts to trivialize and…
The Bank of Russia and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation (MiFin) have agreed that crypto mining should be allowed only in certain areas. According to a new report by RBC-Crypto,…
Binance announced the existence of its Global Law Enforcement Training Program in a blogpost on Sept. 27. The creation of the program could be considered retroactive, since the company’s investigations team has been…
By the end of last week, the federal agencies presented the results of their six-month-long work on the principal directions for digital assets regulation in the United States. The resulting first-ever crypto framework,…