Binance Donates $10,000,000 to Ukraine, Raises Millions More in Emergency Relief Fund

Binance cryptocurrency exchange is donating millions of dollars toward assisting in the Ukrainian humanitarian relief efforts. The cryptocurrency exchange says it is giving $10 million to those displa...

Binance Donates $10M To Ukraine And Launches Emergency Relief Fund

It is no surprise that international support for Ukraine continues to grow following the invasion by Russia. After Russia invaded Ukraine, experts from every sector started getting worried about worse...

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 Ends Emergency Declaration As ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protests Dwindle

Topline Canada ended a nine-day emergency declaration Wednesday that was made in response to the so-called Freedom Convoy protests that obstructed some border crossings and interfered with commerce ac...

S&P 500 Falls Deeper Into Correction Territory As Ukraine Declares State Of Emergency

Topline The stock market plunged again on Wednesday—with the S&P 500 falling deeper into correction territory—after the Pentagon warned a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine could happen immine...

Terra Raises $1 Billion for an Emergency Bitcoin Reserve

Key Takeaways Terra and the Luna Foundation Guard have completed a $1 billion sale that sold LUNA tokens to venture capital groups. The funds raised will go toward establishing a Bitcoin reserve that ...

Russell Brand Tears Into Trudeau’s Tyrannical ‘Emergency’ Powers

Russell Brand, British comedian at large, has ripped into Justin Trudeau’s handling of the trucker protests in Canada. In a devastating invective, Brand went as far as to say that the emergency powers...

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-...

Canadian protestors respond to emergency crypto measures with the Freedom Convoy Token

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau initiated emergency measures on Monday in an attempt to starve protesting truckers of funding. Since arriving in the country’s capital, Ottawa, last week, the tr...

‘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...

Bitcoin hits $44K after Canada emergency powers accompany 6% BTC price increase

Bitcoin (BTC) opted for fresh upside on Feb. 15 as a trip to near $40,000 saw an abrupt change of direction.  BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView RSI prints classic bull signal...

Canada Evokes Emergency Act Against Freedom Convoy Protests: Targets Crypto

Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the new regulation on Monday as part of the Emergencies Act. “We are broadening the scope of Canada’s money laundering and terrorist financin...

Crypto In The Line Of Fire As Canada Authorizes Emergency Rules To Stifle Protestors

The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the 1988 Emergencies Act in an attempt to rein in the situation with the protesting truck drivers that have crippled cross-border transportation ...

Canada Authorizes Emergency Rules to Cut Off Protesters’ Access to Funds, Including Crypto

The Canadian government today for the first time invoked the Emergencies Act in a bid to restrict the flow of funds to truck drivers protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. Under the act...

Trudeau Invokes Rare Emergency Powers To Shut Down ‘Freedom Convoy’ Blockades

Topline Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued an emergency order to end the blockades caused by “Freedom Convoy” nationwide anti-vaccine mandate protests, which have shut down key bridges ...

Canadian leader declares state of emergency over bridge blockade, plans to arrest protesters

Vehicles clog downtown streets as truckers and supporters continue to protest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 10, 2022. Blair Gable | Reuters DETR...

GOP and Democratic governors reinstate Covid emergency orders to fight omicron surge

Ambulances outside University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland, on Jan. 7, 2022. Karl Merton | Tribune News Service | Getty Images As Covid-19 cases surge across the nation, R...

56% of Americans can’t cover a $1,000 emergency expense with savings

JGI/Jamie Grill | Tetra images | Getty Images Most Americans are still struggling to build solid savings accounts nearly two years into the coronavirus pandemic. Some 56% of Americans are unable to co...

We have a chance to end Covid emergency in 2022, WHO official says

Executive Director of the WHO Emergencies Program Mike Ryan speaks at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland on Feb. 6, 2020. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Covid-19 will never be eradicated, but society...

Roaring U.S. housing market may cool, keep climbing as Fed ends emergency support

U.S. home prices roared almost 20% higher in the past year, giving families who own properties a major boost to their finances during the pandemic. But Wall Street, a key source of home mortgage finan...

New Jersey reinstates public health emergency as omicron overwhelms hospitals

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy speaks to volunteers as he meets with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka during the gubernatorial election in Newark, New Jersey, November 2, 2021. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters New Jer...

Kosovo Bans Bitcoin Mining After Energy Shortage Prompts State of Emergency

In brief Kosovo declared a state of emergency to deal with its energy crisis in December. The government is acting on a committee recommendation to prohibit mining. The Kosovo government today declare...