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A report published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) outlines that 15 different countries are considering joining the global fintech trend and adopting central bank digital currencies (CBDC) as a method of payment. The IMF has emphasized two main reasons for such a decision in the report.

LinkedIn has published its annual “Emerging Jobs Report” analyzing the data from Economic Graph and job opportunities companies posted on the social platform. It turned out that the top place is taken by the role of blockchain developer, as its demand has risen by 33 times over this year.

A large number of businesses and other major institutions operating in the U.S and Canada received threatening emails on the afternoon of December 13, 2018, initiating sweeps and evacuations of several buildings.

Putting conjecture on cryptos such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP) to an end, a government panel has proposed formulating a new strong law that will regulate that field, according to sources familiar with the matter. The panel revealed that all those currencies must be deemed ‘illegal,’ CNBC TV18 reported on Friday, December 7, 2018.

The Finance Ministry of Estonia will soon add amendments to a financial bill which was recently passed, purposely meant to "harden" cryptocurrency-related regulation, according to a report by Äripäev, an Estonian financial newspaper.

The 'Buckeye State' is ready to be the first State in the country to accept crypto, specifically Bitcoin (BTC), for payment of tax bills, according to The Wall Street Journal report on November 26. This comes after BTC and other major cryptos have depreciated value over the past week. On Monday, November 26, 2018, BTC was trading below $4,000, down over 80% since the December 2017 all-time-high of around $20,000.

Two mining firms operating in Sweden have purportedly relinquished their facilities in Norrbotten, a county in the far north of the country. One of the firms, a U.S. miner called NGDC, seems to have all of a sudden fled the county, leaving unpaid power bills of around $1.55 million in its wake, according to a report from Sverige Radio.

The mining of Ethereum using a graphics processing unit (GPU) is not profitable anymore, as revealed by Susquehanna, a U.S-based world trading & technology company. According to a report by CNBC on November 13, 2018, Susquehanna's data shows that the prolonged decline in digital currency markets and slumping network hashrates is the main reason for the profit reduction.

Uganda's Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) plans to review the law on anti-money laundering so that it can include crypto assets, according to a November 14, 2018 report from nilepost, a local news outlet.