World Bank has rejected El Salvador’s decision to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, noting that it would have dire economic consequences. It refused to provide any kind of assistance for the country’s…

No country has escaped the setbacks caused by the pandemic, but its impact on low-income countries is particularly devastating. The World Bank estimates that the pandemic and efforts to contain it…

As the Egyptian parliament has approved a sovereign sukuk law this month, Egypt is now officially entering the Islamic finance market for the first time, with the volume of sukuk issuances reaching …

Turkey has been forcing people for almost a year now to trade using its local currency in different Syrian regions that lie on its southern border and are under its army’s control. Likewise, these…

The United States and China are locked in a contest for influence over the rest of the world. The new great-power competition looks in this sense very much like the one that took place during the…

Iran has recently taken a decision to ban the mining of Bitcoin blocks on its territory for a period of 4 months. Iran had started mining Bitcoin at the beginning of 2019 with an official decision…

Despite the abundance of oil in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the new leadership in Riyadh is totally convinced that selling oil and using the revenues to run the country will not continue forever. …

The Cryptographic Anarchism Pact, written by computing brand Timothy May in 1988, says that computing is about providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each…

Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, ether and dogecoin have surged to highs that few investors would have predicted a year ago. The furious run has even the most optimistic traders asking: Can it last?…

The most trafficked wild product in the world isn’t ivory or rhino horn, but rosewood, an endangered tree verging on extinction as demand for rosewood furniture in China clears out forests in places…