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Sasha Markevich

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Worldwide   -   Mar 22, 2024 Indonesia Projects Crypto Boom, Moves the Oversight to Financial Services Authority
Indonesia Projects Crypto Boom, Moves the Oversight to Financial Services Authority

In the first two months of 2024, the volume of crypto transactions significantly rose. The Commodity Futures Trading Supervisory Agency meanwhile is preparing to transfer crypto oversight to the Financial Services Authority.

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Stablecoins   -   Mar 21, 2024 Sorting Stablecoins: Crypto Exchange Discontinues USDT Support in Europe
OKX MiCA stablecoins tether USDT

OKX crypto exchange delisted USDT trading pairs for EEA-based users. The upcoming implementation of the MiCA regulation pushes market participants to make bets.

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ElSalvador   -   Mar 20, 2024 El Salvador's BTC Balance Revealed, Sparking Confusion
El Salvador's BTC Balance Revealed, Sparking Confusion

Nayib Bukele posted the physical address for the country's Bitcoin holdings, sparking speculation about its true balance. On-chain data shows connections with Bitfinex.

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Exchanges   -   Mar 18, 2024 Nigeria Pushes Binance to Provide Transactions of All Nigerian Users
Nigeria Pushes Binance

The exchange has ceased activities in the country, but that hasn't stopped the government, which has detained two Binance executives for over three weeks already.

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Exchanges   -   Mar 16, 2024 Hong Kong Regulator Adds Bybit to Alert List and Issues User Warning
Bybit Hong Kong SFC

The Securities and Futures Commission added 11 products offered by the exchange to its suspicious investment products list and accused Bybit of conducting regulated activity without a license.

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ElSalvador   -   Mar 15, 2024 El Salvador Lures Foreign Investors as BTC Rally Puts Country in Profit
Nayib-Bukele-CPAC-Bitcoin-el-Salvador

With BTC prices hitting a new all-time high, El Salvador’s crypto treasury is around $85 million in profit. The country has also changed its tax system to attract more foreign investment.

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JPMorgan   -   Mar 14, 2024 JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon Would Defend Our Right to Buy 'Pet Rocks'
JP Morgan Jamie Dimon Bitcoin Pet Rock Petcoin

The JP Morgan CEO, a long-time critic of Bitcoin, accepts that people have the right to buy it even if he doesn’t personally understand it.

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Litigation   -   Mar 12, 2024 Coinbase Attempts to Legally Force SEC to Provide Crypto Regulation
Coinbase Attempts to Legally Force SEC to Provide Crypto Regulation

The exchange accused the authority of unlawfully rejecting its petition for crypto rulemaking last December.

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