Amid recent government regulations within Ukraine’s financial sector, cryptocurrency aid is currently the primary source of assistance coming in for the country.   Within a week of Russia's invasion into the Ukraine, the defending country received several million dollars worth of bitcoin and crypto donations through the Come

Samson Mow has announced that he is leaving his post as Chief Strategy Officer at Bitcoin infrastructure company blockstream.  Mow joined Blockstream in April 2017 shortly after it had appointed Dr. Adam Back as CEO and raised $55 million Series A funding. The block size debate was reaching its crescendo

Braiins, the first bitcoin mining pool company, has donated 10 of their own bitcoin as well as 2.5 petahash to support Ukraine in lieu of Russia's invasion into the sovereign state. The company also created a hashrate donation account on Slush Pool so that Bitcoin miners across

The debate over proof-of-work mining in the European Parliament has been delayed with energy FUD surrounding Bitcoin mining. The Markets in Crypto-Assets Directive, known as MiCA, was set for vote on February 28th. The agenda was to start negotiations between the body and the Council of the European Union and

In a speech at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz came out unequivocally in favor of Bitcoin. In his speech, he claimed he was bullish, at least in part, because “it is decentralized and uncontrollable.” He added that political parties taking anti-Bitcoin

The Ukrainian National Bank (UNB) recently adopted a resolution following Russian attacks and the declaration of martial law within the country.   Adopted Resolutions   The resolution asserts that bank branches should continue normal operations unless life-threatening situations arise, or the health of the general population is at risk.   The resolution also

El Salvador’s tourism sector represents one of the largest sectors of economic growth for the Latin American country. Since the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador, one of the most positively impacted sectors of the country has been tourism. According to the Minister of Tourism (MITUR)

China announced an amendment that will allow the courts to jail those found guilty of raising funds via “virtual currency”. China has banned crypto-based fundraising since 2017 and has amended this Criminal Law to increase the punishment to jail sentences which will vary from three years to over ten years