Why is YouTube cutting crypto content?

Youtube’s Christmas crypto purge

KYC: 2020’s hot topic?

New regulatory standards are coming into effect in 2020 that deal with “Know Your Customer” (KYC) and “Anti-money-laundering” (AML) laws. The end result is that more and more cryptocurrency service providers will be required to collect the personal information of their users. This article has more:

Many Muslim countries, one cryptocurrency

At a summit attended by Malaysia, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, and Indonesia (among others), Iranian President Hassan Rouhani proposed creating a cryptocurrency for Muslim countries, with the goal of reducing their dependence on the United States dollar.

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While some governments hesitate to recognize cryptocurrency as legal tender, many can’t avoid clarifying its status indirectly by trying to reduce the use of crypto assets for illicit activities. Russia has recently given cryptocurrency that kind of indirect recognition.

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The PlusToken Ponzi scheme continues to make waves, as a large sum of Ether is moved, and then associated with the now-defunct scam. This article has more:

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