Epstein planned to create a “Russian Bitcoin” for Putin

The release of files relating to the case of financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by the US government has revealed the billionaire's links to crypto projects and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. In a recent publication, the Kyiv news site...
Cryptocurrency lending platform suspends customer withdrawals

BlockFills, the digital asset trading and lending platform for institutional clients, has temporarily halted deposits and withdrawals. The official reason, according to the Financial Times, is “recent market and financial conditions”. In a statement sent to clients, the company said...
Brazilian immigrants may have their accounts closed in the US

“If you're here illegally, there's no room for you in our financial system,“ declared Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a publication on X last year, in response to a FinCEN alert on international transfers of...
BlackRock: 1% allocation to cryptocurrencies in Asia could attract US$ 2 trillion to the market

BlackRock executive Nicholas Peach said that a small change in Asian portfolio allocations to cryptocurrencies could generate a significant flow of capital into the market. During a panel at Consensus Hong Kong, he said that a recommendation of...
Lula government wants to treat Bitcoin purchases as foreign exchange in order to charge IOF of 3.5%

The federal government is considering yet another Bitcoin tax for Brazilians. Under discussion at the Ministry of Finance and the Internal Revenue Service, a new proposal envisages equating the purchase of cryptocurrencies with foreign exchange transactions, paving the way for...
How long can Strategy last without selling Bitcoin?

Bitcoin's price recently fell below the average purchase price of Strategy, the world's largest institutional buyer of BTC. This has reignited rumors that the company could suffer a forced liquidation, since it borrows...
China bans stablecoins and tightens currency controls

The Chinese authorities have taken another decisive step in tightening control over the crypto sector and any attempt to tokenize real assets outside state control. On Friday (06/02), the People's Bank of China (PBoC) jointly...
How Argentina came to the forefront of stablecoins

Argentina's currency crisis has opened the way for the country to become an experiment in the use of digital assets. Chronic inflation, strict exchange controls and limited access to hard currency pushed millions of people out of the traditional financial system,...
VASPs regulation has begun: foreign exchanges will have to comply with Brazilian rules

The regulation of VASPs (Virtual Asset Service Providers) in Brazil came into force on Monday (2). With the advance of the Central Bank's rules, foreign cryptocurrency exchanges that serve Brazilians are officially on the regulatory radar, even if they don't have headquarters...
SimpleX: how to use the world's most private messaging app

SimpleX Chat is one of the most radical messaging apps when it comes to privacy. Unlike WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram, it doesn't use a phone number, email, fixed username or global identifiers. In practice, this means that...










