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Crypto exchange Binance is blocking the accounts of any Russian clients targeted by sanctions, it told Reuters on Monday, but will not freeze the accounts of others after Ukraine called for a block on Russian users at major digital currency platforms.

As world leaders roll out further sanctions on Russia after it's invasion of Ukraine, here's what you need to know about the SWIFT system and if it could form part of sanctions. Russia’s system is largely used within Russia itself, meaning it could turn to cryptocurrency or other alternatives

As the race against Chinas development of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) known as the digital yuan continues, the U.S. Federal Reserve accomplished a feat in testing a design for a U.S. digital dollar that in one of two tests, managed to handle 1.7 million transactions per second.

The Fed might not act as decisively in tightening monetary policy if financial stability concerns start to outweigh the risk of fast inflation.

MicroStrategy today announced it had purchased an additional 660 Bitcoin for an approximate $25m.

A recent NYDIG report found that Bitcoin had settled more transaction volume in Q1 2021 than "all credit card networks combined for the entire year" when including intra-network transactions.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis says that the recently introduced "America Competes Act of 2022" is a direct attack on the crypto industry. "I will not stand by and let the heavy hand of the government pick winners and losers," she stressed. C

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The government of El Salvador on Monday rejected a recommendation by the International Monetary Fund to drop Bitcoin as legal tender in the Central American country...

After a tumultuous three years of trying to get off the ground, the Meta-sponsored cryptocurrency called Diem (formerly Libra) confirmed that it's selling its assets.

His embrace of the industry may be a counterintuitive and risky play to cover a weak point with voters.

A new bill introduced in the U.S. has a provision that "would essentially give the Treasury Secretary unchecked and unilateral power" to ban cryptocurrency transactions, warned crypto advocacy organization Coin Center. Treasury Secretary Janet Yel

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday rejected a proposal to offer spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) from Fidelity's Wise Origin Bitcoin Trust. The move is the latest in a series of rejections by the market regulator to approv

The top 1000 richest Ethereum wallets are gobbling up the popular memecoin Shiba Inu (SHIB) at an alarming rate.

The Biden administration plans to release a comprehensive strategy on cryptocurrencies, consolidating the approach of several government agencies.

The Biden administration plans to release a comprehensive strategy on cryptocurrencies, consolidating the approach of several government agencies.

The directive will ask Federal agencies to determine the risks and opportunities posed by digital assets.

Popular cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com announced this week that it lost around $34 million worth of customers' cryptocurrency in a recent hack.

Grichka Bogdanoff reportedly succumbed to complications from COVID-19. Six days later, so did Igor Bogdanoff. Both had refused to get vaccinated.

You've got questions, they've got DeFi. The two men who bought RadioShack in 2020 are turning it into a crypto play.

The Federal Reserve's surprisingly hawkish policy turn has had a surprise beneficiary: Cryptocurrencies.