Top Stories of The Week Michael Saylor posts fake quote from Trump on crypto to 3.6M followers With the United States Election Day coming up and many voters already going to the polls, social media is rife with misinformation about candidates’ policies. MicroStrategy executive chair Michael Saylor seems to have fallen for a social media
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Blockchain technology is planting the seeds of change in Africa’s farming sector, providing solutions to long-standing barriers like market access, financial limitations and fair pricing. For farmers like Sophia Wambui Ngamate from Nakuru County, Kenya, aged 54, it has been a lifeline. “One Million Avocados has wonderfully assisted me in planting more than 120 avocado
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Asian crypto traders catch late-night surge as Trump wins election The cryptocurrency industry celebrated Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 United States presidential election, as Bitcoin surged to new all-time highs. Asian markets joined in the rally, local sources tell Magazine. “A lot of Asian traders were working overnight to catch this surge and are
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Blockchain domain provider Unstoppable Domains has partnered with Cake Wallet, an open-source wallet, to launch a new top-level domain specifically for Monero users, the companies announced. Unstoppable Domains said the new .xmr domains will allow Cake Wallet and Monero (XMR) users to send and receive tokens using human-readable addresses instead of long, alphanumeric strings. The
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Reports of a Wall Street lawyer as a potential SEC chair candidate in Trump’s administration have divided the crypto community, with some raising concerns that his traditional finance background may lead to an anti-crypto stance. However, others are more optimistic, speculating that his experience may lead to “thoughtful frameworks” for crypto regulation. Levin Naftalis and
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Norges Bank, Norway’s central bank, has endorsed the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) as the country evaluates the potential adoption of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Kjetil Watne, project director for Norges Bank’s CBDC project, said in an interview with Cointelegraph that Norway, as a member of the European Economic Area (EEA),
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The crypto arm of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) said there will be  “greater flexibility to experiment” as the regulatory landscape for crypto improves in the United States following the Nov. 5 elections. “While we’ll likely have greater flexibility to experiment, we can’t forget that the fundamental regulatory principles applicable to blockchain systems remain
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