The crypto trend is continuously gaining popularity around the world, new businesses and services that are utilizing cryptocurrency payments continue to emerge. Within the cryptocurrency community some of the most popular projects are those that allow users to use their crypto holding as collateral in order to get a low interest fiat based loan. These […]
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Cryptocurrency 201: Airdrops – What You Need To Know
While the word airdrop often conjures up images of jets dropping supplies to people eagerly waiting packets of food or something… in the crypto space, nothing could be further from reality. The first time we heard this term and we started doing research, the best pictures of cryptocurrency airdrops were those of planes ‘airdropping’ Bitcoin […]
Scalable dApp Blockchain and Passive Income With RISE
The introduction of blockchain and cryptocurrency to the world has opened a host of innovations across the globe. This technological advancement has shown the world new opportunities as well as provided the infrastructure for further growth. CryptoCoinMindSet wants to highlight various projects within the space. We are constantly looking at projects and bringing the innovators […]
UK Ends Consultation On Crypto Derivatives Ban
Regulators across the world are making changes to their policies as they seek to accommodate cryptocurrencies. It seems like you can’t go a single day in the crypto space without the SEC charging someone or some country talking about banning cryptos. But, despite all of this, the growth of this asset class continues, even if […]
Kik Shuts Down Messaging App To Fight SEC
Ted Livingston, the CEO of Kik Interactive, announced that the firm is shutting down it’s messaging app, Kik Messenger. According to Livingston, they are shutting the messenger down as the company moves to solely focus on its cryptocurrency named Kin. As cryptocurrencies and the crypto projects in the space are continuing to reach for […]
Tax Laws in Portugal Make Country Attractive For Crypto Holders
It’s no surprise, like most things in this world, countries across the globe have differing opinions on things… and with those differing opinions, comes different ways of dealing & regulating them. There has been a recent surge in the action from many countries to clarify regulations surrounding Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Last week alone, we told […]
Netherlands Could Ban Foreign Crypto Businesses
As Bitcoin and cryptocurrency gains traction across the globe, many countries are stepping up efforts to ‘properly’ regulate cryptocurrency and crypto related businesses. Governmental regulatory bodies are working towards developing and adopting regulations meant to protect their country’s businesses and economies, not to mention global entities like the FATF, which we’ve reported on previously. Recently, […]
UN Official Claims Crypto Makes Fighting Crime & Terrorism Harder
Some of the major crimes in the world still revolve around money laundering, cyber-crime and terrorist activities. According to one UN official, it is becoming even more difficult to meet these threats because of cryptocurrency. The UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime’s Neil Walsh — chief of the Cyber-crime and Anti-Money Laundering arm — says […]
SEC To Run Cryptocurrency Nodes
Many of us in the cryptocurrency space, especially US investors, almost dread to hear the SEC is looking at something else in the space. But, we hope that they will eventually help the industry by providing clarity… According to recently-published documents, it appears that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is finally getting serious […]
SEC Won’t Take Action Against Blockchain Gaming Firm PoQ
Across all reaches of the globe, varying levels of cryptocurrency regulations are being issued by governments and governing financial bodies. In recent months, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has become rather infamous when it comes to their statements on and actions against crypto-based companies and their business practices. So far, the SEC only […]
Trump Tweet Great For Crypto
It was the tweet ‘heard around the world’… ok… maybe only within the crypto community… Just channeling Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Concord Hymn… Back to the news… President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter is certainly something new to politics,however, it has also become something that it pretty much common place these days. The cryptocurrency space and […]
UK Announces a ‘Dirty Money’ Crackdown
Any legitimate investor in the cryptocurrency space would likely agree with you that there is no room in this space for fraud. Now, that’s not say that it does not exist… it is here just like every other financial sector of society… Criminal activity is funded with every fiat currency on the planet as well […]
Winklevoss Twins Urge Facebook to Collaborate with Regulators
If you’ve been following cryptocurrency news at all, you know that Facebook and their Libracoin has been in the news consistently. You can read our last news post about Libra here Since Facebook’s announcement about Libra, there has been no shortage of backlash and calls from governments across the globe telling Facebook to ‘slow down’ […]