Crypto

Gold bug Peter Schiff has highlighted a problem with owning spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). However, the issue Schiff pinpointed isn’t unique to bitcoin ETFs. This discussion has reignited calls for self-custody among crypto proponents. Peter Schiff’s Warning Prompts Self-Custody Push Gold advocate and economist Peter Schiff has highlighted a problem with owning spot bitcoin…

A group of 85 economists has supported the Honduran government’s decision to leave the World Bank’s arbitration body, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), amidst a legal conflict with the crypto island project Próspera Inc., which seeks $10.8 billion in compensation after losing its special economic status due to legislative changes in 2022. The economists…

Goldman Sachs is seeing more institutions diving into crypto, the global investment bank’s head of digital assets has revealed, noting that until now the bitcoin price action has been driven primarily by retail investors. “But it’s the institutions that we’ve started to see come in,” he stressed, adding that the appetite has “transformed.” Bitcoin ETFs Prompted a ‘Psychological…

The Argentine Senate passed a law that creates a registry for any institution that offers cryptocurrency services in the country. The CNV, the Argentine securities enforcer, will manage this registry, which also establishes obligations for crypto companies to deliver personal information on their customers and other data to government entities. Argentine Senate Passes Crypto Anti-Money Laundering…