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Block Earner Co-Founder: Lack of Regulation Limits Australian Crypto Market to Token Sales Only

Regulation through enforcement often yields suboptimal outcomes for all stakeholders, including consumers, as it creates a negative stigma around industry companies,” asserted the co-founder of an Australian crypto startup. The co-founder expressed…

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan: Stablecoins Can Help Fight an Upcoming US Debt Crisis and China’s Growing Influence

Paul Ryan, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, has assessed the possible role that stablecoins will play in fighting an upcoming U.S. debt crisis. According to Ryan, the demand derived from the increasing relevance of dollar-backed…

Crypto Sector Secures $317M in Venture Capital Deals in Early June

With the first half of June concluded, there have been 37 venture capital deals and fundraising events in the crypto sector. Collectively, these investments totaled $317.87 million, with Avail, a modular blockchain project, leading the pack with…

T-Mobile Owner Deutsche Telekom Unveils Bitcoin and Lightning Network Node Operations

This week at the BTC Prague conference, Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary T-Systems MMS announced its operation of a Bitcoin node and a Lightning Network node. Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s largest telecommunications provider and the parent…

Report Says Biden Administration, Mark Cuban, and Ro Khanna Set for Critical Crypto Roundtable

Members of the Biden administration are reportedly convening for a bitcoin and blockchain roundtable with American entrepreneur and “Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban. This news comes after presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed to…

JPMorgan Chase Captures 18% of US Bank Profits, Highlighting Growing Market Dominance

A report has found that JPMorgan Chase Bank accounted for a substantial 18% share, or $11.7 billion, of the total $64.2 billion net income reported by all FDIC-insured banks for the first quarter of 2024. This data, highlighted by financial…

Latam Insights: Paraguay Unveils Bitcoin Mining Centric Development Strategy, Itau Unibanco Rolls Crypto Trading for All Customers

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Paraguay unveiled a bitcoin mining-centric strategy, Itau Unibanco rolled out crypto trading services for…