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Tough Crypto Law Expected in Russia Despite Central Bank’s Softer Stance on Crypto Payments
2.6.2022
The bill “On Digital Currency,” meant to comprehensively regulate crypto transactions in Russia, will be a “tough” law, according to the head of the State Duma Financial Market Committee. The legislation is yet to be finalized and will not be reviewed by lawmakers in...
Co-Founder of Africa Focused Fintech: Traditional Banks Not Optimized to Serve the Unbanked
2.6.2022
For years, traditional financial institutions in different parts of the world have been attempting to narrow the financial exclusion gap by extending their services to the unbanked population. Yet for many reasons, these institutions still cannot avail their products and services to everyone that...
Brad Garlinghouse says NFTs 'underhyped,' sees new use cases | Cointelegraph interview
30.5.2022
The Ripple CEO reflected on crypto's presence at the World Economic Forum and the emerging use cases for digital assets
Belarus Has Seized Millions of Dollars in Crypto, Chief Investigator Claims
29.5.2022
Authorities in Belarus have mastered the seizure of cryptocurrencies, the head of the country’s Investigative Committee revealed in a recent interview. The high-ranking law enforcement official claims the state has already confiscated crypto assets worth millions of dollars. Companies...
Report: FTX CEO Says Crypto Exchange Is Ready to Spend Billions on Acquisition Deals
29.5.2022
Billionaire and FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said the leading crypto asset exchange aims to make a number of acquisitions and could spend up to $2 billion on such efforts. The FTX chief executive officer highlighted in a recent interview that a fraction of the funds raised by the company were...
Billionaire Bill Miller calls Bitcoin 'insurance' against financial catastrophe
27.5.2022
Miller said Bitcoin “functioned without the Fed and without any interference” during times of market turmoil, concluding that “it’s an insurance policy, the way I look at it.”
Why the Crypto Industry in Indonesia Is Set to Leapfrog Competing Markets
27.5.2022
With over 270 million people, Indonesia is the fourth-most populous country in the world and its economy is one of the largest markets in Asia. It also has a large unbanked population, a receptive regulatory environment and additional factors making it stand out for crypto adoption. In the latest...
WEF 2022: Web3 no longer just about crypto and DeFi, says Polkadot founder Gavin Wood
24.5.2022
Blockchain startups building for the Web3 economy have attracted billions of dollars in venture capital funding this year alone
Analysts assess the aftermath of the Terra (LUNA) collapse | Cointelegraph interview
18.5.2022
Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg, and financial commentator Frances Coppola discuss the implications of last week’s Terra collapse in Cointelegraph’s latest interview
Unlocking Decentralized Trading for the Masses with Peter Kris, CEO of Mangata Finance
13.5.2022
Today, CryptoNewsZ is in conversation with Peter Kris, the visionary behind Mangata Finance, a project that employs novel concepts to protect traders in the Web3 space and paves the way for mass adoption. Hi Kris, it’s a pleasure to have you with us today. We are keen to know about you and your...
SEC Chair Gensler: Crypto Exchanges Are Trading Against Their Customers Often
12.5.2022
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, says cryptocurrency exchanges are “trading against their customers often because they’re market-marking against their customers.” He has raised concerns over crypto trading platforms...
Nigerian Fintech Founder: ‘African Fintechs Have a Greater Scale Potential Than Other Tech Startups’
9.5.2022
The African fintech industry has grown rapidly over the past few years and this has caught the attention of some well-resourced venture capital (VC) firms. As one would expect, Nigerian fintech startups have dominated the continent in terms of funds raised or the number of transactions performed....
'Regulations are in place to help crypto businesses understand operations,' says The Bahamas PM Philip Davis
6.5.2022
The Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis shared his plans to welcome crypto businesses to the region during SALT’s Crypto Bahamas
CryptoNewsZ in an interview with Mr. Tor – CEO of Nakamoto Games- A Game-changing Play to Earn Platform
5.5.2022
CryptoNewsZ: Welcome to CryptoNewsZ! We would love to know more about you and Nakamoto Games! First, thank you for having me. It is not so often that I get a chance to speak about a game-changing technological paradigm on a platform. And secondly, my name is Chawalit Rugsasri, but you can call...
The Secret for Creating DeFi Content “Your Dad Could Understand”
4.5.2022
Known only as blocmates on Twitter, Grant is a crypto content creator that “your dad could understand,” and he specializes in DeFi which often has the most difficult kinds of crypto products to understand. He recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the market: Among...
‘They didn't see it coming:’ Podcaster Joe Rogan sees Bitcoin as a viable form of currency
4.5.2022
Joe Rogan noted that Bitcoin is like the “early internet,” and the “government is freaking out” about BTC in conversation with the MMA fighter Khalil Rountree
Solana Co-Founder Believes Bitcoin Needs to Change to Proof-of-Stake Consensus to Remain Relevant
1.5.2022
Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the co-founders of Solana, the proof-of-stake based, smart contracts enabled blockchain, issued a series of statements criticizing bitcoin’s consensus algorithm. In an interview on CNBC, Yakovenko stated that bitcoin might lose adoption if it doesn’t change...
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Skeptical of Crypto but Says ‘Not All of It Is Bad’
1.5.2022
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says that he does not particularly like crypto but will defend your right to invest in it. However, he sees benefits in some aspects of digital currency. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon on Crypto, Digital Currency JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon talked about...
World Bank Predicts 3% Gold Price Growth, Expert Says a $3K per Ounce ‘Is More Likely Than Not’
30.4.2022
The World Bank has said it expects the price of gold to rise by 3% in 2022 but warned the price might fall sharply if the Russian central bank decides to offload large quantities of the commodity. The Russian Factor After the price of gold surged past the $2,000 mark in early March, a new […]
A Tell-All Interview with BEAM Tech Lead Alex Romanov
29.4.2022
CryptoNewsZ: Welcome to CryptoNewsZ, Alex; our readers would love to know what led to the inception of BEAM? Beam began in 2018 and mainly focused on maximizing the privacy of blockchain transactions. On January 3rd, 2019, we launched the first-ever Mimblewimble-based confidential cryptocurrency...