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The Bitcoin (BTC) exchange rate has been on a positive run as the price broke out above the high of $48,000. Although buyers failed to sustain the bullish momentum above the $48,000 high, the BTC price fell back to support at $47,000.

The Central American Republic El Salvador is the first country in the world to make Bitcoin the official national currency. The Bitcoin exchange rate reached a high of $52,445 in the last 24 hours, but then crashed and traded below $45,000.

Within weeks, the 20-year war in Afghanistan ended and the Taliban took power again. However, the cryptocurrency community wonders if the Taliban government will embrace cryptocurrencies as it rebuilds the economy.

Bitcoin adoption is growing dramatically in Canada, but the rate of cryptocurrency fraud is also increasing at a worrying speed. Between 2017 to 2020, digital currency-related fraud in Canada rose by about 400%, as per the report by RCMP.

With everything seeming to be going digital in this Covid-19 pandemic era, the tokenization of payment systems is growing at a high rate across the globe. Blockchain and fintech is now the next big thing.

Tezos’s downtrend has reached an alarming rate as sellers threaten to push prices beyond the previous lows. Today, the coin has fallen to $2.34 as price action shows bearish signals of further decline.

Law enforcement agencies make their best efforts to combat criminals performing drug transactions via the darknet. On August 24, the Indian Narcotics Control Bureau arrested a young man for buying ecstasy pills using Bitcoin.

Australia passes the first sentence related to cryptocurrency theft, proving that law enforcement is gearing up to govern the digital currency and blockchain industry.

Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tarō Asō said he disagrees with the plan to lower the cryptocurrency tax to the same level as stocks. At the meeting of the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, he stated that there was no intention to lower the cryptocurrency tax rate to 20%.