Crypto Exchange Scraps Fee Charges For Ukrainian Customers

More goodwill continues to pour in as crypto market participants have expressed support for Ukraine. LocalBitcoins, a leading global peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace, has said that it stands with Ukra...

Death sentence for BTC in Europe: EU scraps move that bans PoW cryptos

The European parliament has been mulling over cryptocurrency regulations for a couple of years now, even as a number of roadblocks have slowed down the process considerably. One such obstacle was remo...

Sotheby’s Scraps CryptoPunks Lot Minutes Before Auction

Key Takeaways A Sotheby’s auction planned to sell lot of 104 CryptoPunks was cancelled on Wednesday. The owner of the 104 NFTs said that they “decided to hodl” the items. Sotheby’s h...

Walmart Reportedly Scraps Mask Mandate For Vaccinated Staff

Topline Walmart announced Friday that vaccinated employees will no longer be required to wear masks at work, multiple news outlets reported, after Amazon and multiple states loosened their own masking...

Thailand scraps 15% crypto capital gains tax following public backlash

Thailand has decided to suspend the implementation of its 15% cryptocurrency capital gains tax for now. The proposal, which was presented earlier this year, triggered a lot of opposition, but it appea...

Ethereum Scraps “ETH 2.0” in Roadmap Rebrand

Key Takeaways The Ethereum Foundation has retired the terms “Ethereum 1.0” and “Ethereum 2.0.” Instead, these will now be referred to as Ethereum’s “execution layer...

Amazon Scraps Plan to Stop Accepting Visa’s U.K. Credit Card

Text size British shoppers will continue to be able to shop on Amazon with their Visa credit cards. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Amazon.com will continue to accept Visa credit cards in the U.K., the e...