Politics

Sep 22, 2022

Iran begins testing state digital currency

The main aim of the authorities is “to turn banknotes into a programmable entity”

Sep 21, 2022

US Treasury Department calls crypto mixers problem for sanctions

According to the agency’s employees, such services allow Russia, Iran, and the DPRK to circumvent the restrictions imposed

Sep 19, 2022

Russia’s Ministry of Finance questions the possibility of decentralizing the financial system of the Russian Federation

Department employee Ivan Chebeskov also spoke about the details of the draft law on cross-border crypto payments

Sep 14, 2022

Bank of Russia explains skepticism about the legalization of private crypto assets

First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia believes that the country’s economy should develop through the digital ruble

Sep 13, 2022

More than 100 crypto companies form a committee to support candidates for the US Congressional elections

Circle, Kraken, and other Blockchain Association representatives will support crypto-friendly candidates

Sep 12, 2022

Chinese authorities to expand the use of digital yuan

The country is gradually increasing the number of regions that have launched a pilot project to use e-CNY

Sep 12, 2022

Central Bank of Norway releases prototype of national cryptocurrency based on Ethereum

Mining, transferring, and burning ERC-20 tokens are available in the testnet

Sep 12, 2022

Cryptocurrency advocate becomes head of the Conservative Party of Canada

Pierre Poilievre intends to stop the development of CBDC and make the country “the blockchain capital of the world”

Sep 9, 2022

Deputy Aksakov allows the possibility of adopting distributed ledger technologies in the Russian Federation by 2024

The official also believes that there will be a boom in the issuance of digital financial assets in the same year

Sep 9, 2022

Russia’s Ministry of Finance allows the possibility of using BTC, ETH, and stablecoins to pay for exports

The Deputy Finance Minister believes that platforms with high liquidity should be used for such operations

Sep 8, 2022

Bank of Russia will support cross-border payments with the digital ruble

This was announced by the head of the regulator, Elvira Nabiullina

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