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While the US Securities and Exchange Commission is known for its cautious stance on cryptocurrencies, it seems things have been changing. The watchdog’s Chairman claimed that they are open to Decentralized innovations.

The International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) is concerned about the latest Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCA) regulations imposed by the European Commission. The new framework might overburden the industry and therefore slow down its growth.

The European Commission (EC) approved on Thursday September 24, a digital finance package, including a retail payments plan, digital finance strategy and legislative proposals on cryptocurrency and digital resilience, for a booming European Union (EU) financial sector that gives customers access to state-of-the-art financial goods and services.

Fake news related to cryptocurrency, Coronavirus pandemic, and other fields that spread through social media like Facebook, Google, Twitter etc., are becoming a problem. That is why the European Commission urged the giants to strengthen measures against misinformation.

Despite Bitcoin offering unprecedented decentralization and security, its network has one significant flow, namely, the transaction speed. A single transaction processing can take up to 10 minutes. But why is this happening?

The traditional method of moving money abroad has always been associated with high transfer and money conversion rates, unnecessary delays, annoying paperwork and bureaucracy, but the rise of cryptocurrency as a competing instrument seems to provide many easy alternatives.

Cryptocurrency has been attracting illegal dealers since its very inception. Due to its anonymity and security, Bitcoin was widely used as a payment method on the darknet shadow markets. However, lately criminals started paying more attention to Monero as this cryptocurrency allows for an enhanced secrecy and disguise.

The world’s first licensed Bitcoin-led casino operator, Bitcasino, has yet again expanded its ecosystem by adding full support for Ripple’s native currency, XRP, allowing its community of users to benefit from XRP’s fast transactions and lower fee structure.

A new type of mobile cryptocurrency exchange and a card paying service will soon be in vogue, as users will be granted access to use the Visa network to make transactions happen between cryptocurrencies and fiat.