The Regulatory Journey of Cryptocurrencies
During last few years, in addition to Taiwan, another frontier of contest emerged between China and the USA – the wrestle to control more than 2 billion worth of crypto market. Last week, Beijing has announced new strict regulation pertaining to the trading with cryptocurrencies. Even the mining is prohibited. The regulators in the USA […]
AUKUS and Plan B for North-East Europe
The Deal The September 15th’s announcement of a new partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, dubbed AUKUS, is a significant move by the three countries to improve their strategic alignment and military cooperation as the Indo-Pacific increasingly becomes a focal point of foreign and defense policy, versus Chinese assertive moves to […]
Salvador is the First to Makes Bitcoin its Legal Tender
In parallel with China’s plans to issue e-CNY (digital Yuan) and CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) of Sweden, South Korea, El Salvador is the sixth country (beside the cohort of small Caribbean states – the Bahamas, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, and Grenada), which has officially launched virtual currency as a […]
Russia encroaches Europe’s Gas Market as Nord Stream 2 approaches its completion
Europe is facing a natural gas shortage just as Russia is completing a controversial pipeline to Germany, increasing Russia’s leverage over the continent’s energy flows. Europe’s gas stores are at their lowest (the part of which is owned by Gazprom) levels for years after demand rebounded from a pandemic-induced low that had led producers to […]
An Emerging Power In Energy Storage
Now as renewable energy sources produce close to a quarter of total electricity production of the world and maintains the fastest growth among all other power generation plants, the technological development to ensure their smooth integration with national grids is critical both for power grids as well as for the fight against climate change, to […]