A copy of a draft bill that seeks to ban cryptocurrencies in India has been uploaded on Scribd by blockchain lawyer Varun Sethi. If passed, the bill, entitled Banning of Crypto Currency Regulation of Official Digital...

Facebooks cryptocurrency project Libra has created quite a stir in the regulatory bodies across the globe. While the tech giant is gearing up for its upcoming hearing, a draft law has reportedly been circulated by U.S....

Georgia becomes the latest nation to exempt cryptocurrencies from value-added taxes (VAT), a move that supports Bitcoins status as a currency, according to Bitcoin.com. As per the report, Georgias finance minister Ivane...

Jon Montroll, the CEO of Bitfunder pleaded guilty to charges including securities fraud and obstruction of justice. As a result, he will be spending 14 months behind bars in a recent ruling by Judge Richard M. Berman of...

More Bitcoin derivatives, as well as that of other crypto coins, might soon become available if the efforts by trueDigital Holdings pulls through. As a digital assets management firm, what it wants to accomplish is gain...

With blockchain being a relatively new technology, many of its aspects are still confusing even to government leaders. This is why the US Chamber of Digital Commerce is holding an education day where members of the House...

A state in Brazil is making use of Blockchain in order to facilitate government contract bids in a more transparent and open manner. This will do so by tracking the details of the bid, which will then allow regulators to...

At this point, it has been well-established that Japan and many other countries view Facebook Libra with extreme mistrust. This is why, ahead of the G7 summit, Japan will be placing the crypto offer under a microscope to...

More and more retailers are now accepting payments via bitcoin, and Australia just added another one on the list with the Independent Grocers of Australia (IGA) joining in. Composed of several supermarkets in the country...

A new report just came out to claim that countries like Russia and Iran are now looking to blockchain to figure out ways in which they can circumvent the sanctions imposed by the US. This could have huge implications for...

Even though blockchain is roughly considered a decentralized ledger technology, the US Senate wants a clearer definition of the network as far as its uses are concerned. To that end, it recently approved of the Blockchain...

A new license that was granted to the crypto firm Prasos by the EU now gives the broker to additional leeway in 28 countries. Called the Payment Institution License (PIL), it is a symbol of how much trust is now being...

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, in general, have been compared to a lot of things and gold is now one of them. This is courtesy of Jerome Powell, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve when he said that the crypto coin is...

A candidate running for Congress is trying to give his campaign workers incentives via Ethereum tokens. Recently, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) published a draft advisory opinion expressing the intent to approve...

Following Chinas lead, Turkey is now considering the idea of putting cryptocurrency under the direct supervision of its central bank. This news comes in conjunction with the Eleventh Development Plan that was submitted to...