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On Oct. 10, the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) bill was passed, with 28 members of the European Union Parliament voting in favor. The new legislation addresses key crypto elements such as consumer protection, anti-money laundering (AML), environmental impact and business account

Bitcoin is a conversation with fiat.It isn't independent. It's contextual. It's relational. Bitcoin is contextualized by the existence of fiat, and hopefully, fiat becomes contextualized by Bitcoin.

Even though decentralized finance (DeFi) is on the right track in terms of growth and adoption, the space is still full of risks, uncertainty and volatility. One of its biggest advantages over centralized finance is the availability and accessibility of financial data. Since tran

Last week, crypto service provider firm Prime Trust agreed to return $17 million in assets to bankrupt crypto lending platform Celsius, according to multiple reports, which several experts say is "a...

A disclosure: I have always thought that the price of crypto assets is their least interesting feature. By now any traders reading this are probably howling in disgust, and I don’t disagree with that reaction – my point is that crypto is about so much more than &ldquo

Cryptocurrency has one major drawback for investors: it is highly volatile. A form of crypto with its value tied to a currency reduces this issue. Enter stablecoins.

Your brain can be your worst enemy in trading.You like to think you’re rational and objective about every decision, but that isn’t true. Here’s the problem: Your attention is limited in an increasingly complex world.

As recently as nine months ago, Helium was celebrated as a groundbreaking Web3 application with the potential for widespread use and glowing write-ups in major media outlets. Adoption of the global network of “hotspots that create public, long-range wireless coverage for In

As recently as nine months ago, Helium was celebrated as a groundbreaking Web3 application with the potential for widespread use and glowing write-ups in major media outlets. Adoption of the global network of “hotspots that create public, long-range wireless coverage for In

There is one thing you can’t do with lending in decentralized finance (DeFi). You can’t borrow more than you can stake. With a few minor and heavily asterisked exceptions, there are no on-chain credit cards, no mortgages, no unsecured loans and no commercial paper in

Censorship resistance is fundamental to any functioning cryptocurrency or blockchain project. It’s been a pillar of crypto from the start, one of the biggest reasons the whole movement got started. What it means is this: As long as a participant in the Bitcoin or whatever n

Litecoin is a cryptocurrency that launched shortly after bitcoin. Litecoin is often called the silver to bitcoin's gold. But will litecoin be worth anything in the future?

The shiba inu cryptocurrency was born as a mockery of dogecoin, but what is it worth? Read on for expert shiba inu coin price predictions.

Amid speculation over which federal agency will ultimately take the lead in regulation of the virtual currency industry, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the largest-ever enforcement action of its kind against crypto exchange platform Bittrex

I fear I’m going to upset a few people with this column.That’s because I’m going after both sides in the divisive debate over identity in crypto and finance: blinkered monetary regulators on the one hand and blind crypto idealists on the other. In their own way,

It has been a bad month for bulls**t artists.I won. Welcome to law.

Ether (ETH) has been losing value against Bitcoin (BTC) since June 2017.

Many people believe you can gain privacy by switching in and out of a privacy coin. They do this because they want to anonymize funds received from a friend or transferred in from an exchange.The truth is, this really doesn’t work. When transacting through privacy coins on

Japan’s accredited self-regulatory body for the crypto industry is simplifying a complicated screening process that digital tokens must undergo before being listed on local exchanges.These rules will come into effect in December and have been approved by Japan’s top f

Decentralized finance (DeFi) could require new kinds of voluntary regulation to manage the severe threats it poses, finance professor Tarik Roukny told the European Commission today, as the EU executive ponders how to regulate a sector that doesn’t easily fit under existing