One of France’s most iconic buildings lies virtually destroyed after a tragic fire consumed it last night. In response to the incident, which has moved much of the planet, a group of French Bitcoin advocates have set up a crypto appeal. The blaze is now under control but millions of euros worth of architecture and…
France has said it will block the development of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency as it poses a threat to “monetary sovereignty”. At the opening of an OECD conference on cryptocurrencies, French economy and finance minister Bruno Le Maire said: “I want to be absolutely clear: In these conditions, we cannot authorise the development of Libra on…
Decentralised cloud computing project iExec has announced a partnership with one of the world’s largest utility companies. The French energy giant EDF hopes to overhaul its cloud-based infrastructure by building an application on the Ethereum blockchain. GPUSPH will reportedly take advantage of “the decentralized cloud”. The app gets around Ethereum’s scalability issues by ensuring that…
In a report published earlier today, the Finance Committee of France’s National Assembly has stated that it would be appropriate to ban all cryptocurrencies focused on providing greater anonymity to the user. The committee went on the write that such cryptocurrencies posed heightened risk of various financial crimes. The rest of the report was not…
France’s National Gambling Authority has ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket, putting the prediction-market platform back under regulatory pressure in one of Europe’s largest markets. The ANJ said its president issued the network-level blocking request on July 16. The regulator framed Polymarket as an illegal gambling operation and cited concerns including consumer…