243 | Latest Cryptocurrency News, Bitcoin & Crypto Updates 2026

Ex-Fed Man Frets About Libra-like Coins + 9 More Crypto News

Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world.Regulation newsFormer senior United States Federal Reserve official Simon Potter says that it is unlikely that...

, by Tim Alper

Lawmakers to Fed: ‘The Nature of Money is Changing’ + More Crypto News

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Adoption newsTwo American congressmen have suggested that the United States should create a “digital...

, by Tim Alper

Fiat Money May Break in a Decade, Says Author of ‘Black Swan’

Fiat money is likely to break within the decade, predicts Nassim Nicholas Taleb, an essayist, scholar, and former risk analyst, famous for his book on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable events, The Black Swan.Upon being asked to make a prediction on “what would happen by the end of...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Binance Launched ‘How to Get Rekt 101’ + 10 More Crypto News

Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world.Trading newsBinance said that Binance Futures has increased its maximum leverage to 125x for BTC/USDT contracts and...

, by Tim Alper

Survey: 74% Understand that Crypto is Money + 7 More Crypto Briefs

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Adoption news The seventh ING International Survey on new technologies found that general attitudes towards the...

, by Tim Alper

Fiat is a ‘Big Thing’ for Binance as They Focus More on Fiat Onramp

Fiat-to-crypto conversion is a big thing for Binance, stressed the exchange’s CEO, Changpeng Zhao in his recent livestream. Speaking of fiat onramp, he said that “there’s a lot of initiatives happening,” from fiat gateways to Binance USD (BUSD) stablecoin. Though fiat...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Former Giant YouTuber Michelle Phan is Now a Bitcoin Evangelist

After leaving YouTube at the height of her channel in 2015, one of YouTube’s earliest creators and most famous beauty stars, Michelle Phan, picked up cryptocurrencies as one of her most stimulating interests, finding her discovery of Bitcoin more exciting than that of YouTube.Feeling...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Lil Bubble: The Cryptosphere is a Ridiculous Place (Sometimes)

You’ve probably heard crypto anthems “All Time Lows” and “When Moon?” The person behind these parodies is called Lil Bubble, who told us that the Cryptosphere shouldn't take itself so seriously all the time. Well, with his tongue-in-cheek YouTube flicks, he's...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

FATF to Include Crypto Brokers in Japan Audit + 8 More Crypto News

Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world.Regulation newsSankei Biz reports that the G7’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will audit the Japanese...

, by Tim Alper

8 South Korean Crypto Exchange Execs Jailed in USD 386m Fraud Wrap

A court in South Korea has jailed the head of cryptocurrency exchange Coinup for 16 years, after convicting him of fraud. Eight other executives from the exchange were also given jail time, with the company’s vice president given an 11-year prison term.The Seoul court ruled that...

, by Tim Alper

South Korea Might Send Cryptocurrency Exchange AML Offenders to Jail

South Korean regulators and parliamentarians are rapidly building up a legal framework that will help them police cryptocurrency exchanges, with non-compliant exchange operators potentially facing jail time.Per news outlet Ilgan Today, the regulatory Korea Financial Intelligence Unit is seeking to...

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Crypto Exchange Huobi Strengthens Ties With China

Major cryptocurrency exchange Huobi may finally be returning to the fold in China, over two years after a Beijing crypto crackdown forced domestic trading platforms out of the country.Per Chinese media outlet Fn.com, Huobi China has joined a state-endorsed blockchain alliance named the Blockchain...

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Global Citizens Call For ‘a Global Unit of Account,’ Says Central Bank

Central banks in the Eurozone are increasingly turning their attention to the matter of digital fiats as they hurry to meet the needs of citizens who are more and more reluctant to use conventional cross-border payment solutions. But could their Central Bank-issued Digital Currency (CBDC) drives...

, by Tim Alper

Academic: All Undergrads Should Learn About Bitcoin & Blockchain

This interview was originally published by our French franchise partner fr.cryptonews.com. ______Bitcoin (BTC) officially turns 11 on January 3, 2020. As the token enters its third decade, how does one of the first few academics to ever write a paper on BTC see the future of Satoshi...

Chinese Central Bank: Digital Yuan Is Not for Speculation

The head of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC)’s digital currency research institute Mu Changchun has confirmed that a “digital form of the yuan” is on its way – but claimed that the digitized fiat would be “different from Bitcoin or stablecoins.”The PBoC...

, by Tim Alper

Crypto Banking Race to Bring Cheaper Services – Analysis

As the competition among crypto companies is changing, it’s making financial services more accessible and cheaper, says popular crypto researcher known as Hasu in the latest analysis. While coming from different directions, all crypto companies share the same goal of eventually becoming...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

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