Binance said it froze the Hamas-linked wallet.
Bitcoin has already passed the $68,000 mark in Nigeria, but that’s if you use the official exchange rate. Awosika Ayodeji, a Nigerian blockchain project designer, isn’t complaining. He is happy to wake up and see bitcoin prices quoted using unofficial U.S. dollar exchange rates because it means he’d be getting more naira per dollar when […]
In 2020, Colombia saw a major boost in crypto use, both as a store of wealth and as a means of transaction.
India’s crypto trade volumes have soared since the Supreme Court of India lifted banking restrictions for exchanges in March. According to Coin Dance's Paxful and LocalBitcoins volume data, India’s bitcoin peer-to-peer trade volume reached an all-time high in July.
Paxful’s year-old foray into Russian crypto markets is paying off for the peer-to-peer exchange.
Elliptic's tracing software bolsters the peer-to-peer exchange's anti-money laundering safeguards.
Banning cash transactions and requiring identity verification has not noticeably hurt bitcoin’s oldest operating peer-to-peer exchange, market data shows.
Lebanon's crisis has been raging for years, but the devaluation of the Lebanese pound and a global downturn has made stable financial services even more urgent.
Homeland Security and Drug Enforcement Administration officials charged a LocalBitcoins user with laundering more than $140,000 in bitcoin.
LocalBitcoins data is a starting point for research, but it isn't conclusive evidence of grassroots adoption.
P2P crypto trading platform LocalBitcoins has reportedly removed an option allowing users to buy or sell cryptocurrencies in person for cash.
Another crypto buying and selling service has banned Iranian users, pushing them toward anonymous decentralized exchanges.
The Open Money Initiative is bringing insights from Venezuela to help crypto startups make better tools for people in distressed economies.
Peer-to-peer bitcoin trading site LocalBitcoins says it's suffered a hack via a third-party service that affected a small number of users.
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts love to talk about Venezuelan users as an example of bitcoin's subversive potential – but the reality is more complex.