Ainikki Riikonen
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The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics.
The push by countries at all levels of development to modernize their information and communications networks has created unprecedented demand for technological infrastructure. Governments and industry are investing billions of dollars to expand...
In a tongue-in-cheek hot seat video to round off 2021, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, or “CZ,” responded to a series of curated Tweets from the Binance community.The Chinese-Canadian business executive’s standout message was that centralized exchanges such as Binance would remain relevant in 2022 and beyond. Riposting to...
On December 30, the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler hired new staff to offer advice related to crypto policy-making and inter-agency work.
The SEC chair stated that Corey Frayer is set to join Gary's executive staff as a senior adviser on the agency's oversight of...
Retail interest in the Bitcoin (BTC) market has been down-trending. On-chain analyst Will Clemente confirmed:
“Retail interest in Bitcoin is pretty much gone since the Spring. Big boys running the show now.”
CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju echoed these sentiments and noted that Google search volume for the leading cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin (BTC) institutional demand is conspicuously wanting at the end of the year as data flags the “underperformance” of the United States’ first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF).As noted by markets commentator Holger Zschaepitz on Dec. 29, the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) is now trading at nearly...
As Bitcoin (BTC) was hitting new historical highs above $68,000 this year, global cryptocurrency naysayers were increasingly blasting BTC for its extreme volatility and potential risks.According to Bitcoin Obituaries data by Bitcoin education portal 99Bitcoins, the original cryptocurrency was declared “dead” as many as 45 times in 2021,...
Gibraltar-based tech group Valereum Blockchain announced the acquisition of Juno Group, a company that aids in the establishment and administration of trusts, money management and enterprise creation in Gibraltar.Juno is a company that Valereum describes as having three areas of licensed operation: the management of trusts and similar entities, the...
Shanghai, China’s most crowded city, is looking for ways to use a metaverse in public services over the next five years.Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology’s five-year development plan for the electronic information industry listed four frontiers for exploration, and one of them is the metaverse.According...
Bitcoin (BTC) put in an early end-of-year flourish on Dec. 31 as an upward boost saw BTC/USD retake $48,000.Options expiry fadesData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD abruptly gaining over $1,500 in a single hour on Friday.A refreshing counterpoint to several days of downtrend, the move gave...
