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G7 Central Bankers Stress the Need to Regulate Cryptocurrencies at Latest Meeting
8.12.2020
The G7 finance ministers and central bank governors discussed the need to regulate cryptocurrencies during their latest meeting. German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz raised concerns about Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency. G7 Sees the Need to Regulate Crypto U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven...
German Bank to Launch Bitcoin Investment Fund in January
8.12.2020
German private bank Hauck & Aufhäuser says it will launch a crypto investment fund in January next year, allowing institutional and semi-institutional investors to invest in digital assets including, bitcoin, ether, and stellar. ● According to a report on Fundview,...
Rebranded Libra Still a ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’: German Finance Minister
7.12.2020
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz took aim at the rebranded lDiem and said it would take more than cosmetic changes to smoothen regulatory concerns
German government unimpressed by Facebook stablecoin's rebrand
7.12.2020
German finance minister says “A wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf.”
German Stock Exchange’s Crypto Trading App Surpasses $1 Billion Volume This Year
7.12.2020
Cryptocurrency trading on the app provided by Germany’s second-largest stock exchange, Boerse Stuttgart, has hit record volumes. One billion euros in cryptocurrencies have been traded on the exchange’s crypto trading app, Bison, so far this year. 1 Billion Euros Crypto Trading Volume...
German bank launches crypto fund covering portfolio of digital assets
7.12.2020
Hauck & Aufhäuser's Digital Asset Fund I will reportedly cover 85% of the total crypto asset market
Private German Bank to Launch Cryptocurrency Fund
3.12.2020
Hauck & Aufhauser is launching a cryptocurrency fund in January 2021
Bitmex parent 100x appoints German stock exchange exec as new CEO
1.12.2020
Amid ongoing legal action from U.S. authorities, the company behind Bitmex — 100x — has announced a new CEO
German Finance Minister Says He Does Not Support Private Cryptos: Report
20.11.2020
Olaf Scholz said banks need to adapt for a digital world but seemed to rule out private digital currencies from that future
300 Banks in Germany Charge Negative Interest Rates Including Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, ING
15.11.2020
A new report reveals that more than 300 banks in Germany are now charging some customers negative interest rates. Some are big global banks, including Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, and ING. 300 Banks Pass on the Burden of Negative Interest Rates to Customers Banks in Germany have been increasingly...
Televend’s Complex System of Telegram Drug Bots Swell as German Police Seize 9 Telegram Drug Channels
12.11.2020
During the last few months following the departure of the infamous Empire darknet market (DNM), a great number of DNM users have been flocking to alternative vendors. More recently, a new bot service on Telegram called Televend has been attracting tens of thousands of users and the service...
CBDC as a store of value threatens financial system, says German official
21.10.2020
The German central bank is considering alternatives to CBDC as a digital payment solutions
Bitcoin Bar ‘Room 77’ Shuts Down
19.10.2020
Room 77, the German bar and restaurant that claims to be the first retail outfit in the world to accept bitcoin payments, has shut down. Cypherpunk Holdings chief economist Jon Matonis broke the news on Twitter. Bar owner Jorg Platzer later confirmed it on Reddit. “Room 77 is closing...
German Lawmakers Vote ‘Nein’ on Blockchain for Transparency on Megaprojects
18.9.2020
The bill sought to renew Germans' trust in their government's ability to keep megaproject spending under control
Leading Stock Exchanges in Switzerland, Germany, Austria Now List Bitcoin ETP
1.9.2020
A bitcoin exchange-traded product by 21Shares is now listed on leading stock exchanges in three countries: Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. The company offers 11 cryptocurrency exchange-traded investment products in total. Growing Number of Stock Exchanges List Bitcoin Products Zug-based 21Shares...
Wirecard scandal fallout sees 50% of German staff laid off
26.8.2020
730 people from Wirecard’s German offices will be given pink slips
Germany Begins Closing Down All Unlicensed Bitcoin ATMs
9.8.2020
Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), the country’s top financial regulator responsible for regulating crypto service providers, has begun actively closing down unauthorized bitcoin ATMs, a BaFin spokesperson has confirmed to news.Bitcoin.com. All Unauthorized...
German Authorities Confiscate $30 Million in Bitcoin From Pirate Movie Site
7.8.2020
German authorities, with the help of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), have confiscated about $30 million in bitcoin from an operator of a pirate movie website. An unspecified amount of bitcoin cash was also seized. Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Seized The German state of Saxony’s...
German Regulator Seizes Crypto ATMs
6.8.2020
Germany's financial regulator BaFin is seizing bitcoin ATMs run by "Shitcoins Club" months after ordering its operator to cease trading crypto
German Police Seize $29M in Bitcoin From Content Pirate
6.8.2020
Prosecutors allege the programmer behind movie2k.to helped distribute 880,000 pirated films over a five-year period that ended in 2015