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Cryptopolitan announces Katana Inu officials as guest speakers for upcoming Web3 Masterminds session
Cryptopolitan is happy to announce that three of Katana Inu’s officials – Marwan Hadad (CEO), Hamza Shamsi (CAO), and Tim Berstien (CTO) – will join the next Web3 Masterminds live session as guest spe...
Officials Attend First Lecture on NFTs at Major Turkish University – Bitcoin News
Ankara University has become the first higher education institution in Turkey to organize a course on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The freshly-launched lecture has been attended by high-ranking governm...
Cryptopolitan announces Umbrella Network officials as guest speakers for upcoming Web3 Masterminds session
Cryptopolitan is happy to announce the President of Umbrella Network, John Chen, and the Business Development Manager, Joel Bergeron, as the guest speakers for the upcoming Web3 Masterminds live sessi...
ACLU Criticizes Texas Officials For Proposing ‘Child Abuse’ Investigations Into Transgender Medical Care
Topline The American Civil Liberties Union took aim Wednesday at Texas officials for framing gender-affirming medical care for transgender children as “child abuse” and urging people to re...
Kazakh officials seize 360 illegal Bitcoin ASICs amid push for higher mining tax
Kazakhstan’s authorities have confiscated 360 specialized Bitcoin ASICs as part of the country’s ongoing campaign to weed out “gray” crypto miners. According to an announcement published by the Financ...
Officials of the Federal Reserve are forbidden from trading crypto
Crypto trading has made many billionaires and millionaires over the past couple of years. As inflation across the world began to rise significantly amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the entire digita...
Federal Reserve Officials Banned From Trading Crypto and Stocks in New Directive
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has banned members of the U.S. Federal Reserve from partaking in the crypto and stock markets. In a new press release, the FOMC unanimously adopted a comprehen...
Fed Bans Senior Officials From Cryptocurrency Investing – Coinotizia
The Federal Reserve has banned its senior officials from investing in cryptocurrency. “Officials covered by the new rules will have 12 months from the effective date of the rules to dispose of all imp...
No crypto and stock investments for Feds senior officials
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has adopted the rules banning senior Feds officials from trading stocks and cryptocurrency. The new rules formally establish guidelines that were first announc...
Russia Adopts Law Allowing State to Seize Illegal Funds, Digital Assets From Officials – Coinotizia
The State Duma of Russia, the lower house of parliament, has passed a law permitting law enforcement authorities to seek confiscation of illegally obtained funds from government officials, including c...
Despite Recent Threats From Canadian Officials, ‘Real Crypto’ or Decentralized Assets Cannot Be Frozen – Featured Bitcoin News
Over the last week, there’s been a lot of discussion about Canada ‘freezing’ digital currency accounts that are associated with the Canadian trucker’s Freedom Convoy. Amid the topical conversation, it...
Fed Bans Senior Officials From Cryptocurrency Investing – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Federal Reserve has banned its senior officials from investing in cryptocurrency. “Officials covered by the new rules will have 12 months from the effective date of the rules to dispose of all imp...
Latest Limitations Won’t Allow FED Officials to Trade Crypto, Stocks, or Bonds
Late Sep last year, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) which operates within the Federal Reserve System released a draft to prohibit Fed officials from trading and owning stocks and bonds. A rec...
Federal Reserve Officials Prohibited From Trading Bonds, Stocks, and Cryptocurrencies
A few months after introducing the first draft aiming to prohibit Fed officials from owning certain assets, the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee has updated the document to include cryptocur...
Fed senior officials will soon not be allowed to trade crypto, stocks and bonds
The Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, has approved rules that would ban senior officials at the Federal Reserve from purchasing and holding cryptocurrencies and other investments. In a Friday an...
FED Adopts New Rule, Officials Won’t Be Able to Trade Crypto
Per a press release, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s senior officials will be unable to trade crypto, purchase individual stocks, hold an investment in individual bonds, commodities, and even foreign curre...
Fed Bans Officials From Trading Stocks, Crypto Following Ethics Scandal
Senior staff at the Federal Reserve will no longer be able to hold cryptocurrencies, among other assets such as stocks, according to an announcement today. In a Friday statement from the Federal Open...
Russia Adopts Law Allowing State to Seize Illegal Funds, Digital Assets From Officials – Bitcoin News
The State Duma of Russia, the lower house of parliament, has passed a law permitting law enforcement authorities to seek confiscation of illegally obtained funds from government officials, including c...
Federal Reserve Officials Banned From Trading Crypto
Key Takeaways The Federal Reserve approved rules today that would bar senior officials from trading crypto and other assets. The ban also applies to stocks and bonds; it affects officials in the Feder...
Fed approves rules banning its officials from trading stocks, bonds and also cryptocurrencies
Federal Reserve officials won’t be able to trade a slew of assets including stocks and bonds — as well as cryptocurrencies — under new rules that became formal Friday. Following up on regulation...
Fed Restricts Central Bank Officials’ Stock And Crypto Trades After High-Profile Resignations
Topline The Federal Reserve on Friday adopted rules governing investments made by central bank officials, banning them from purchasing individual securities after a series of top officials resigned fr...
Is Russian Crypto Regulation Under Threat; Govt. Officials Fail to Reach A Consensus
Top Russian officials have failed to reach a deal on how to regulate crypto despite President Vladimir Putin’s request for them to find a compromise. Russia’s Central Bank Chief Elvira Nabiullina has ...
Indian Crypto Exchanges Met With Finance Ministry Officials to Seek Tax Reconsideration
“Uncertainty surrounding cryptocurrency regulations, limited knowledge of the capital market and a desire to maximize profits drove exchanges to innovate unnecessarily, to the point where complexity b...
Russia’s Top Officials Failed to Reach an Agreement on How to Regulate Crypto (Report)
Despite Vladimir Putin’s request, the Bank of Russia and the Finance Ministry did not shake hands on a single solution regarding cryptocurrency regulations. While some reports indicated that the large...
U.K. tax officials seem to believe they seized their first-ever NFTs
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the U.K.’s tax department, seized three NFTs as part of an investigation into potential tax fraud. And while regulators celebrated the move as it was the first time U.K....
State & Federal Officials Move To Regulate & Even Ban PFAS Chemicals, But Many Wonder If That Makes Sense
California state capitol building getty For federal and state lawmakers who have an unending procession of meeting requests, committee hearings, markups, fundraisers, and other demands on their schedu...
This is a Ripple official’s takeaway from the Senate committee hearing on crypto assets
Agriculture and crypto don’t seem like they have a lot in common, but the Senate Agriculture Committee’s hearing on crypto assets triggered strong reactions from crypto stakeholders across the board. ...
US Officials Seize $3.6B in Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack
Some 120,000 BTC was stolen in the 2016 hack, then worth around $60 million and representing nearly one-sixth of the total trading volume at the time. At today’s prices, the total amount of bitc...
CDC tells health officials to expect first shipments of young kids’ Covid shots by Feb. 21
A healthcare worker prepares to administer Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines at an elementary school vaccination site for children ages 5 to 11-year-old in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 22, 20...
How China’s Communist Officials Became Venture Capitalists
(Bloomberg Markets) — In early 2020, as the pandemic pushed it to the verge of bankruptcy, China’s highest-profile rival to Tesla Inc. was shunned by the venture capital funds and foreign inves...