Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday unveiled a proposal that would allow businesses the option to pay state fees with cryptocurrencies as part of the state’s budget for next year.
Italian police have claimed that the number of fake coronavirus vaccine passports being sold online has surged and that some doctors may even be involved in the sale of fake certifications.
According to a recent report, the cryptocurrency group that recently failed to purchase a rare copy of the U.S. constitution is in disarray as organizers attempt to refund donors. The high cost of ethereum transactions, known as “gas fees,” will lead to many donors losing their entire investment in the project.
Kazakhstan’s government has blamed the country’s booming crypto mining industry on nationwide energy shortages and recently threatened to crack down on the practice with new regulations and higher taxes.
El Salvador’s government plans to build a “Bitcoin City” at the base of Conchagua Volcano in the country’s southeast in 2022, El Salvador’s La Prensa Gráfica newspaper reported Saturday, noting the city will be designed to harness the volcano’s geothermal energy to mine cryptocurrency.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News in a statement Monday that Jerome Powell’s renomination to serve a second term as the Federal Reserve chairman will do nothing to curb “America’s inflationary spiral.”
A rare first-edition copy of the U.S. Constitution has sold for $43.2 million at Sotheby’s this week. The sale was made to a private collector that outbid an online cryptocurrency collective that aimed to purchase the copy.
Former secretary of state and failed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Thursday during a panel at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore that cryptocurrencies could “destabilize” nations.
In recent months, many celebrities have attempted to cash in on the recent NFT craze, but for some, it has turned out to be less than profitable. Pro-China actor and wrestler John Cena described an NFT project he was involved in as a “catastrophic failure.”
Los Angeles’ Staples Center, home of the Lakers, Clippers, and Kings, will be renamed Crypto.com Arena on Christmas Day.
Miramax filed a lawsuit Tuesday against director Quentin Tarantino over the director’s plans to create and auction off a series of NFTs based on his work on Pulp Fiction.
In a recent article, Wired outlines how individual cryptocurrency traders across Twitter are becoming detectives to track down scammers and thieves who are stealing cryptocurrency from unsuspecting investors.
Universal Music Group NV, the world’s largest music company, is reportedly creating a band out of four digital NFT apes. One executive explained: “You can call it an NFT band, or think of them as characters. The characters will come to life. The apes will come to life.”
Saule Omarova, the Cornell law professor that President Joe Biden nominated to be the Comptroller of Currency, declared war on fossil fuels.
Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency, if confirmed, would have the “most powerful, least accountable” position over cryptocurrencies and the banking industry.
El Salvador’s government will use surplus profits earned from cryptocurrency investments to build 20 new schools across the Central American country, El Salvador’s Diaro La Huella newspaper reported Monday. “I want to announce that with a few million that we
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) proposed legislation Monday that would position Congress to lead on issues facing cryptocurrency by having Capitol Hill merchants accept digital currencies, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
Following a 10-month investigation into the dark web’s largest illegal marketplace named “Dark HunTor,” 150 suspected drug vendors and buyers have been arrested.
The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Cream Finance has reportedly suffered a major breach, losing $130 million to hackers in what might be one of the largest sums of money stolen in the growing DeFi field.
A recent report claims that hackers abused Apple’s developer program in order to operate a dating app scam that resulted in the theft of more than a million dollars from victims.
Playboy playmate Jessica Vaugn credited coronavirus lockdowns as driving her “red-pilling” and political awakening from a “mainstream slumber.”
Thousands of people opposed to the populist government of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele staged demonstrations in the country’s capital city, San Salvador, on Sunday in which they denounced his recent legalization of Bitcoin as a national currency, the Associated Press (AP) reported Monday.
The so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill contains a provision that could put Americans up to five years in jail for failing to report receipt of cryptocurrency assets.
The use of cryptocurrency surged in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal began, and the impoverished country is now one of the top 20 cryptocurrency markets in the world, according to the 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index.
A new Ethereum-based platform, Let’sGo Finance, says it aims to solve the problem of financial blacklisting by using “staking,” a new cryptocurrency-based method of investing and wealth creation, to solve the problem of financial censorship.
The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, has accused the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of unfairly targeting his platform and selective rule enforcement. Armstrong posted to social media: “They are refusing to offer any opinion in writing to the industry on what should be allowed and why, and instead are engaging in intimidation tactics behind closed doors. If you don’t want this activity, then simply publish your position, in writing, and enforce it evenly across the industry.”
Tech giant Facebook has recently complained of a “trust deficit” between the social media giant and its userbase as it attempts to launch a new digital wallet. The Masters of the Universe believe they will need to “compensate” for this lack of trust to convince consumers to let Mark Zuckerberg take over their finances.
The popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase mistakenly sent emails to 125,000 users incorrectly informing them that their two-factor authentication settings had been changed, leading many users to worry that their account had been hacked.
Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) charged in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is killing American jobs by preventing the House from revising the cryptocurrency regulation in the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Hackers have reportedly stolen $97 million worth of Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies from the Japanese exchange Liquid in a major hack.
Cryptocurrency expert Teeka Tiwari’s PickoftheDecade.com presentation helps investors understand the revolutionary blockchain technology powering the crypto market.
The hacker behind the recent theft of almost $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network started that they hacked the platform “for fun.” The hacker has returned a considerable portion of the stolen crypto and the remaining balance of stolen Ethereum is being transferred back to Poly Network according to their Twitter account.
Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) announced Monday that the Senate struck a compromise on the cryptocurrency provision in the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) issued a call Sunday to open the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill to fix the “reckless” $30 billion cryptocurrency regulation in the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Sen. Bill Hagerty’s (R-TN) office said in a statement Sunday that Democrats, not the Tennessee conservative, are blocking the chamber from voting on vital amendments to the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Ohio Senate Republican candidate J.D. Vance blasted on Friday a proposed cryptocurrency regulation from Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), which President Joe Biden has backed, saying it would punish Ohioans to big tech’s benefit.
According to a recent report, the U.S. government has seized $1.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency in fiscal year 2021. This represents a huge leap from the $137 million worth of cryptocurrency seized in 2020.
Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) proposed an amendment to address concerns over the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill’s provision to tax and regulate the cryptocurrency industry.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an organization that advocates for the rights of digital consumers, has warned that plans for a cryptocurrency tax in the massive Democrat-pushed infrastructure bill risks stifling the emergent crypto market in the U.S. and exposing the personal data of those engaged in it.
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement Monday that the cryptocurrency tax in the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill would be “dire” for American jobs.
