Crypto in China might be under unprecedented government pressure, but the opposite is true of blockchain technology.
A supermajority of the El Salvadoran legislature voted to adopt bitcoin as legal tender early Wednesday morning.
The government would also create a trust that would enable the “instantaneous convertibility of bitcoin to dollars,” the bill said.
The city is exploring paying its employees in bitcoin and adding bitcoin mining to its balance sheet.
China’s 14th five-year plan outlines the country’s economic priorities and stressed that technology will play an increasingly important large role.
"Shadow economy" participants, those who use deal mostly in hard cash for anonymity's sake, are unlikely to be drawn to using a CBDC, according to a Reuters column.
The Reserve Bank's assistant governor for financial systems, Michelle Bullock, said there is "a lot of fuss over bitcoin."
The U.S. Treasury’s decision to impose know-your-customer rules to private cryptocurrency wallets is flawed in more ways than one.
Mayor Suarez is open to everything from blockchain voting to tokenization.
The deputy governor of the Norges Bank said there's no urgent need for the nation to launch a digital krone.
As COVID-19 disrupts global supply chains, the WEF has published a roadmap for businesses to deploy blockchains as a solution.
Internet voting tools – including blockchain apps – have fundamental issues, and are not safe for real elections, a multidisciplinary science group told U.S. policy makers.
New Zealand's Inland Revenue Department is considering how best to change its tax regimen so cryptocurrencies aren't at a disadvantage.
U.S. policymakers are worried CBDCs and crypto will harm the dollar's reserve status. But maybe they have it backwards, writes CoinDesk columnist Nic Carter.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis joined CoinDesk at ETHDenver where he talked about the future of crypto regulation.