Republican Representative for North Carolina, Madison Cawthorn, is at the heart of allegations involving the failure to disclose cryptocurrency holdings. Accusations of breaking insider trading rules come from fellow Republican Thom Tillis, who calls on Congress to investigate Cawthorn’s involvement with the Let’s Go Brandon token. Senator Tillis, also of North Carolina, said: “Insider trading…
EU policymakers are back in the spotlight less than a month after voting for stricter rules on unhosted crypto wallets. This time it’s to do with internal documents that show discussion to “protect” Ethereum at the expense of Bitcoin over its supposed greener credentials. The issue raises questions over protectionism and picking winners versus losers,…
Details have emerged for the first time about how the world’s largest crypto exchange platform, Binance, worked with a financial intelligence agency in Russia. This relationship, according to an in-depth report by Reuters, began in April last year when the regional head of Binance met with some officials of the FSB-linked agency. Binance top exec…
Crypto millionaires have been queuing to visit El Salvador, the only country that has made Bitcoin (BTC) legal tender thus far. While El Salvador allows its citizens to use BTC for everyday purchases, this is not the main attraction behind the growing number of tourists to the central American territory. The crypto tourists seek to…
During the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” protest, Ted Cruz pulled Bitcoin into the widely famous CPAC political gathering by highlighting how censorship-proof the cryptocurrency was. “The Left hates Bitcoin because they cant control it” The tweet below shows the speech made by the US senator at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2022 event in February…
Brussels MP Christophe De Beukelaer will convert his salary into Bitcoin, and this, throughout the whole of 2022. As reported by the Belgian news outlet 7sur7, thanks to the Bit4You platform, the MP’s monthly salary will be automatically converted into bitcoin (BTC). As markets have been quite volatile of late, this might seem like a…