France invites applications for CBDC experiments
The French central bank has put out a call for applications to experiment with a central bank digital currency. However, it may not end up issuing a CBDC.
The French central bank has put out a call for applications to experiment with a central bank digital currency. However, it may not end up issuing a CBDC.
Russian police have arrested one person and his accomplices who are alleged to have stolen $190,000 worth of electricity monthly to mine digital currencies.
A number of local authorities in the U.K. have urged their residents to beware of scammers that ask for BTC in order to avail list of active local infections.
Blockchain startup Coin Metrics has raised $6 million in Series A led by Highland Capital Partners to expand its digital currency data platform for institutions.
Digital banking platform Revolut has launched in the U.S, five years after it launched in Europe. The platform supports easy buying of digital currencies.
BitBay went offline for 18 hours, blaming a third-party service provider for the outage. It raised suspicion among users that it was covering up an exit scam.
South Korean startup S2W Lab has signed an agreement with Interpol, assisting the authority to police the dark web and monitor digital currency transactions.
The Texas securities regulator has cautioned the public to beware of increasing scams taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to bring in investors.
South Korea is gripped by a child porn scandal that has caused national uproar. And now, the four largest digital currency exchanges are helping investigators.
Russia could up regulatory sandboxes for fintech companies, including those building DLT solutions after the Prime Minister submitted a bill to parliament.
ICOs took a huge beating in 2019, with funds raised going down by 95% in 2019. Venture capital firms are filling in the gap, with China now closing in on U.S.
CoinDCX has raised $3M in Serie A funding, led by Polychain Capital and HDR Group, the operator of BitMEX. It plans on expanding and doubling its staff.