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El Salvador, which has already lost tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on its authoritarian millennial president’s beleaguered effort to embrace cryptocurrencies, now says it plans to open a “bitcoin embassy” in Texas. The Central American country’s continued commitment to bitcoin comes despite last year’s crypto…
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You’ve surely seen one...a big, orange eyesore shoved awkwardly into the corner of your local supermarket or perched ominously near the neighborhood gas station.

Spain is introducing its own digital nomad visa, adding it to the list of nearly 50 countries that have implemented it in recent years. The country’s parliament approved the visa in November last year and will allow non-EU citizens to remain in Spain for up to five years.

It’s 2023 and financial crimes and their consequences have officially come to cryptocurrency. Relatively new on the laundry list of blockchain-based offenses that can lead directly to jail: insider trading.

The world’s biggest crypto exchange, Binance, is set to halt transfers to and from U.S. bank accounts beginning Wednesday, February 8.
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