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In what can only be read as a veiled message to El Salvador and any country looking to follow in its footsteps, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday published a blog post advising against adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. Authored by Tobias Adrian, Director of the IMF’s Monetary

Following a report by Bloomberg on Monday about an alleged investigation into whether Tether has committed bank fraud in its early days of operation, the firm has released a statement. According to the report, which cites three unknown sources, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is looking into whether years ago,

Non-custodial exchange protocol TDEX is now available on mobile, allowing users to trade peer-to-peer using their phones. Built by development and consulting firm SevenLabs, TDEX enables atomic swaps — a specialized smart contract for transfers without counterparty risk — to instantly settle trades without an intermediary. The service uses the Liquid Network

A group of protesters took to the streets of San Salvador this week to demand the "Ley Bitcoin" (Bitcoin law) passed in June be repealed. Videos of the protest show a small group of people carrying banners that read, "we don't want Bitcoin" and

Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream is launching an on-demand Lightning node service to support users looking to set up a node with little effort. The company announced the new all-in-one service on Wednesday via a press release shared with the BTC Times. Called Greenlight, the service is built on top of

The EU Commission has released an extensive set of proposals to tighten its anti-money laundering legislation. The package includes a number of measures, all of which are looking to further increase monetary surveillance in the EU. Aside from an EU-wide ban on cash payments exceeding €10,000, what may interest

Turkey's Deputy Minister of Treasury and Finance Sakir Ercan Gül is set to present a draft bill to parliament providing a regulatory framework for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies later this year. Besides setting clear licensing requirements for local exchanges and introducing minimum capital requirements for cryptocurrency companies, the

Scott Conger, the mayor of Jackson in the U.S. state Tennessee, took to Twitter on Thursday to vent what appeared like frustrations that had built up for quite some time. "Every year, our dollar is worth less," he wrote, voicing his concerns about inflation. "6.3%