Speculation grew over whether crypto transactions could help Russia bypass restrictions placed on its financial system by the United States, after President Joe Biden on Thursday announced stricter sa...
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Senator Rand Paul Warns That The United States Has Legislation That Is Similar To Canada’s Emergency Management Act
In the United States, we have an Emergency Act that permits the president to turn off the internet. I sought to take this power away from President Trump when he was in office, he said. Paul, on the o...
Canada’s “frozen” Bitcoin on the move despite draconian measures
When cross-border truck drivers started protesting the government vaccination mandate on January 9th, no one expected it to last for over a month. To end the protest, the Prime Minister invoked the E...
Kraken CEO Lambasts Canada’s Financial System, Backs Bitcoin and Truckers
Jesse Powell, the CEO of crypto exchange Kraken recently criticized Canada’s emergency act aimed at ending the truckers’ protest. The Ontario Securities Commission recently announced the seizure of cr...
Single Mom Loses Bank Account Under Canada’s Draconian ‘Emergency Act’
A single mother in Canada has lost the use of her bank account after donating $50 to the trucker convoy protest. The lady from Chilliwack in British Columbia contacted her local representative Mark St...
Kraken CEO Backs Truckers And Bitcoin As Defense Against Canada’s ‘Weaponized’ Financial System
Jesse Powell, chief executive officer of Kraken Bitcoin Exchange – David Paul Morris/Bloomberg © 2014 Bloomberg Finance LP Jesse Powell is not backing down to pressure from the Canadian governme...
Canada’s OSC Flags Tweets From Coinbase, Kraken CEOs
Key Takeaways The Ontario Securities Commission has apparently reported tweets from two crypto exchange CEOs to law enforcement. Those tweets are from the CEOs of Coinbase and Kraken, who criticized C...
Canada’s TMX Group Makes Strategic Investment in ETFLogic
TMX Group, Canada’s largest stock market operator, announced today that it has closed an equity investment to buy a minority stake in ETFLogic, a U.S.-based fintech Fintech Financial Technology (f...
This Week on Crypto Twitter: Criticism for Canada’s Emergency Measures and Coinbase’s Super Bowl Spot
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt The prices of most top cryptocurrencies barely moved this week, with anxious traders across the globe making fewer bets as tension builds along the Russia-...
A Former Bitcoin Fundraiser For Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protest
As originally reported in the Toronto Star last Monday, February 7, Greg Foss, a Canadian and former hedge fund manager, was identified as one of five ‘multi-signature’ key holders of the Bitcoin rais...
ADALend CEO on Canada’s Banking Freeze, Importance of DeFi, & More
Welcome to the second installment of our interview series with the ADALend CEO Kaspars Koskins. Recent events in the US and Canada have illustrated that Decentralized Finance is more important than ev...
‘Keep Your Coins’ Bill Introduced To Congress Following Canada’s Emergency Seizure Of Trucker Assets
Yesterday, U.S. Congressman Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced “Keep Your Coins” legislation designed to prevent federal restriction on individual user’s virtual currency or wallet transactions. The bi...
Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act to End Freedom Convoy Protests — Canada’s Terrorist Financing Rules Now Cover Crypto – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Canadian government has invoked the Emergencies Act to deal with the Freedom Convoy protests, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financin...
Canada’s Emergencies Act to Target Crypto Transactions, amid Anti-Vaccination Protest
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to curb the “Freedom Convoy” protests. The act, which is part of the Terrorist Funding rules, gives local authoriti...
News Of Canada’s Return To No. 1 Lost Amid Ambassador Bridge Protest
Many of the 18-wheelers that are part of the protest at the Ambassador Bridge, responsible for 20% … [+] of U.S. trade with Canada, are likely being pulled by tractor rigs from Mexico, which sup...
Canada’s regulated DEX, Timechain launches its own line of NFTs with special utility!
Canadian regulated decentralized exchange (DEX), Timechain, is expanding its utilities to offer users more than yield earning opportunities by announcing the launch of its non-fungible tokens (NFT) co...
Canada’s Largest Stock Market Operator TMX Group Plans to Launch Crypto-Futures Product
TMX Group, Canada’s largest stock market operator, has announced plans to launch its first crypto futures product. The development by the company comes in response to the rising demand of such product...
Canada’s Purpose Bitcoin ETF Is Heavily Accumulating the Bitcoin Dip
While retail investors remain confused over the recent Bitcoin price volatility, industry giants are silently making big moves. Canada’s Purpose Bitcoin ETF has filled its bags by accumulating more th...
Bituy Becomes Canada’s First Regulated Marketplace
Bitbuy is the first Canadian crypto trading platform to be regulated as a marketplace and restricted dealer. Bitbuy Technologies Inc. has more than 350,000 users. The trading volumes of the crypto tra...
Canada’s Bitfarms Bought $43 Million In Bitcoin During $300 Billion Crypto Crash
Topline Canadian bitcoin mining company Bitfarms announced Monday it invested $43.2 million in bitcoin as the cryptocurrency plummeted about 12% during the first week of the year, becoming the latest ...