A 34-year-old Australian man accused of running the world’s largest dark web marketplace has been arrested by German authorities close to the Danish border. According to a report from Europol on Wednesday, the DarkMarket site was taken offline on...
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The Libra Association may have rebranded itself as Diem but that means little to German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz. According to a Reuters report, Scholz said in a statement that Libra’s rebranding as Diem was merely a cosmetic change....
Germany’s money-hemorrhaging effort to build a sleek new airport for Berlin might have convinced one political party that a blockchain for megaproject transparency was in order, but on Thursday the center-right Free Democrats (FDP) proved unable to persuade anyone...
Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), the education and innovation hub founded by father-and-son tech evangelists Don and Alex Tapscott, has opened a European arm. Announced Wednesday, Blockchain Research Institute Europe (BRIE) launches in partnership with Blockwall, an independent venture capital...
Bitbond, a Germany-based firm that provides blockchain enabled tokenization services, announced on Tuesday that it had become a member of the German bank association Bankenverband. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for...
The Eurozone will soon see a $860 billion stimulus package after a 4-day meeting in Brussels. Europe’s stock market indices are surging, with Germany’s Dax index erasing losses from the pandemic. The sentiment of investors is improving, as strategists...
Germany’s accounting watchdog reportedly had only one person checking Wirecard’s books in the months before the company admitted to the massive accounting irregularities that led to its insolvency. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet...
While more than 40 banks have reportedly expressed interest in Germany’s new crypto custody license, those firms may still have to put up with an anti-crypto sentiment among German banks. “If you try to open a bank account for...
Berlin-based blockchain startup Spherity has developed a decentralized identity prototype that would help people get the medicines they need while maintaining proper social distance. “We see a big opportunity when it comes to social distancing to get decentralized ID...
Germany’s health minister said that coronavirus had become a “worldwide pandemic.” The World Health Organization is still refusing to refer to the virus using that term. But the WHO’s admission that the death rate is higher than first believed...