Cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried may face a jail term of more than a century after conviction on seven counts of fraud and money laundering.
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New Zealand’s central bank is taking a long, hard look at cryptocurrencies and the role they will play in future business. Here’s what businesses had to say about our digital future.
Cwmni mwyngloddio o Gymru oedd y cyntaf i roi tocynnau i weithwyr fel dull arall o dalu.
A Welsh mining company was the first to issue tokens to workers as an alternative form of payment.
Barely 2% of Australians or Americans use Bitcoin for its intended purpose: to buy things. Should we even call it a cryptocurrency?
It needs to be treated like the new class of assets that it is.
The new UK white paper reforming the gambling laws for the digital age says nothing about one of the most concerning new developments in this field in the past 20 years.
There’s much excitement among bitcoiners right now – but are they about to be disappointed?
An expert in the field of cryptocurrencies answers the question: Is crypto really here to stay or is it just a fad?
The licence didn’t extend to trading in cryptocurrenices, and had been granted to a firm FTX took over, rather than FTX itself.
Cryptocurrency exchanges like FTX aren’t safe. Here’s what every crypto investor needs to know.
Even though some traditional financial firms parked millions in the bankrupt company – once valued at $30 billion – the impact of FTX’s spectacular crash is limited to crypto investors
Stand by for more drama in the days ahead.
Not all digital money is cryptocurrency. Digital money can take the form of card or mobile phone payments, central bank digital currencies and virtual currencies such as Zuck Bucks.
Ethereum, one of the world’s largest blockchains and host of decentralized finance, NFTs and billions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency, is poised to dramatically reduce its energy consumption.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele thought making Bitcoin legal tender would revolutionise his country’s economy, He was wrong.
Crypto’s second-largest currency is shifting to a new environmentally friendly system.
Cryptocurrency has a substantial carbon footprint. Ethereum have taken steps to address this, but will others follow suit?
The landmark change places Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies under immense pressure to follow suit.
Because cryptocurrency exchange platforms act more like banks, they should be subject to increased oversight to protect clients’ assets.
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Law, University of East London
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Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Financial Technology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor in International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Hon Associate Professor. Research interests - AI and the law; Social relationships of trust; Sustainable futures, Australian National University
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Professor of Finance & Financial Technology, ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Professor of Finance, The University of Western Australia
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Deputy Head of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
