The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found regulation and retail consumer protections lacking in a highly complex trading environment. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) analyzed the crypto winter in a new policy paper titled “Lessons from the crypto winter: DeFi versus CeFi” released Dec. 14. The authors examined the impact of...Continue Reading

A US Senate committee heard details of the investor’s conversations with Sam Bankman Fried before the collapse. The collapse of FTX was triggered by Binance, claimed investor Kevin O’Leary on Dec. 14 speaking at the United States Senate committee hearing about the crypto exchange meltdown. O’Leary, who was a paid spokesperson for FTX, provided details...Continue Reading

The service will initially be rolled out to select PayPal users within the United States. Digital payments platform PayPal has teamed up with MetaMask parent company ConsenSys to allow MetaMask users to purchase and transfer Ether (ETH) via PayPal’s platform. According to the Dec. 14 announcement, the service will initially be rolled out only to select PayPal...Continue Reading

“Short of enacting draconian authoritarian policies, cryptocurrency cannot be stopped,” said Senator Pat T United States lawmakers with the Senate Banking Committee had their share of crypto proponents and skeptics in a hearing exploring the collapse of the FTX exchange. In a Dec. 14 hearing on ‘Crypto Crash: Why the FTX Bubble Burst and the...Continue Reading

Allie Rae of WetSpace joins Cointelegraph’s new podcast The Agenda to discuss how crypto and blockchain can empower adult content creators. What do the cryptocurrency and porn industries have in common? As it turns out, both are frequent targets of the traditional financial system, which has been known to ban the accounts of both crypto...Continue Reading

Because of the “ridiculous amount” of NFTs being minted, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuck argued that it’s unlikely for another market boom to happen. In this week’s newsletter, read about how nonfungible tokens (NFTs) hosted on the FTX exchange are now showing blank images. Check out how NFTs can solve diamond certification fraud and how the NFT...Continue Reading

Users are interested in knowing the identities of developers behind the games they play. And soon, lawmakers are likely to write such disclosures into law. In the months following the announcement of my company’s first experimental title, Cyberstella, visits to my personal LinkedIn profile increased by an astonishing 300%. What does this tell us about...Continue Reading

The senators have created a harsh, sweeping bill to clean up crypto’s AML/KYC act that will benefit from further discussion in the next Congress. As the cryptoworld focused on the drama unfolding around FTX, United States Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Roger Marshall introduced the “Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2022” on Dec. 14....Continue Reading

Alleged reports of compromised emails began appearing as early as October. “Not handled well,” was how one user described the revelations brought forth by Cointelegraph on Dec. 14 with regard to a leak of 5.7 million Gemini customers’ email addresses and partial phone numbers. Shortly after publication, multiple users reached out to Cointelegraph, alleging that...Continue Reading

“People love to point at a specific price in hindsight as the bottom of an asset, but bottoming is a process,” Melker says during the first episode of Crypto Trading Secrets. Crypto investor, trader and content creator Scott Melker, also known as The Wolf Of All Streets, joined the new Crypto Trading Secrets podcast for...Continue Reading