March 3, 2021

Iran Should Mine Crypto to Skirt Sanctions, Says President-Linked Think Tank

According to Iran Wire, the Iranian Presidential Center for Strategic Studies report says “cryptocurrency extraction” could provide economic benefits to several different sectors of the troubled […]
December 31, 2020

BitGo settles with US Treasury over sanctions violations in Iran, Syria and Cuba

According to a Dec. 30 announcement, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Controls said BitGo, an institutional crypto custodian service and wallet operator, did not do […]
December 1, 2020

Venezuelan army will start mining Bitcoin to make ends meet

Via Instagram, an engineering brigade of the Venezuelan army inaugurated the new “Digital Assets Production Center of the Bolivarian Army of Venezuela.” As the video shows, […]
November 27, 2020

US intelligence is looking at Chinese CBDC as a national security risk

The United States national security apparatus is warning other agencies about China’s forthcoming digital currency. As reported by cointelegraph, on Wednesday, news outlet the Washington Examiner […]
November 2, 2020

Google searches for Bitcoin are increasing in Cuba

As reported by cointelegraph.com on November 02.2020, Cuba ranks second in the matter of Bitcoin interest over the past 30 days. The island nation follows Nigeria, […]