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EU Seeks Deal on Ground-Breaking Rules to Regulate Crypto
Date: June 30, 2022
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters – The European Union on Thursday will seek agreement on ground-breaking rules for regulating crypto assets as the rout in bitcoin piles pressure on authorities to rein in the sector. Globally, crypto assets are largely unregulated, with national operators in the EU only required to show controls for combating money...
Cryptoverse: Ether Holds Its Breath for the Lean, Mean ‘merge’
Date: June 28, 2022
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss (Reuters) – Investors in ether and its troubled twin stETH are nervously anticipating a crypto milestone: The merge. That’s the name for a major upgrade of the Ethereum blockchain network upon which many crypto projects are built, aimed at making it leaner, meaner and cleaner. It’s elusive. The merge was supposed to...
Bitcoin Miners Sell Their Holdings Amid Crypto Winter’s Chill
Date: June 27, 2022
By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Medha Singh (Reuters) – Bitcoin miners have been forced to tap into their cryptocurrency stashes as a plunge in prices, rising energy costs and increased competition bite into profitability. The number of coins miners are sending to crypto exchanges has been steadily climbing since June 7, researchers at MacroHive noted,...
Dollar Stumbles as Markets Reassess Rate Bets, Eye ECB
Date: June 27, 2022
By Saikat Chatterjee and Hannah Lang LONDON and WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar struggled versus its major rivals on Monday as softening inflation expectations prompted a reassessment of the prospects for aggressive interest rate hikes but volatile markets cushioned a broader decline. Aggressive rate hike bets have boosted the dollar with an index rising...
Ransomware Is Rife – Are Cryptocurrencies to Blame?
Date: June 21, 2022
By Charl van der Walt, Head of Security Research, Orange Cyberdefense It seems that hardly a day goes by without the issue of ‘ransomware’ hitting the headlines. In recent years there have been a number of incidents, one of the most high profile of which saw up to 1,500 businesses around the world impacted by...
Crypto Fears Now Materialising, Central Bank Body Bis Says
Date: June 21, 2022
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Recent implosions in the cryptocurrency markets indicate that long-warned-about dangers of decentralised digital money are now materialising, the Bank for International Settlements has said. The BIS, the global umbrella body for central banks, sounded the warning in an upcoming annual report, in which it also urged more effort in...