The crypto-climate implications are under a study to determine the scope for balancing energy usage and climate change associated to digital assets by the President’s Agency of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), an administrative office of the United States. On March 9, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing various federal agencies to […]
Proof-of-work (PoW) crypto mining will not be prohibited in the European Union, at least not this year. That was the outcome of last week’s widely awaited European Parliament committee decision (EP). An ad hoc alliance of social democrats and Greens proposed a last-minute amendment that would have imposed a de facto prohibition on proof-of-work mining […]
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Kingdom is looking for top executives with cryptocurrency experience as the regulator prepares to open a new crypto department to oversee the sector. According to the FCA’s LinkedIn job advertisements, the agency is now looking for a head of the digital assets department and a director of […]