The global market for stablecoins is expected to be worth $2tn in three years' time. President Donald Trump is urging their adoption to preserve US monetary supremacy. Will the strategy work?
As of 31 July 2025, some of the world’s largest national reserves include hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, valued in the billions of dollars.The United States and China top the list of government…
Digital currencies like Bitcoin face new challenges, while countries' regulators either seem to love them or loathe them. In Part 2 of a two-part series, Al Majalla asks: will it be boom or bust?
The currencies now have a fan in the White House. His promise of more regulatory flexibility has fuelled investor appetite and sent the price soaring. In Part 1 of a two-part series, we ask: what now?
Bitcoin rose on Saturday above $20,000 for first time in over two months.
Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, rose 4.6% to $20,853 at 01:01 GMT on Saturday, adding $922 to…
The government of El Salvador, the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, is seeking congressional approval to issue investment bonds in the cryptocurrency.
El Salvador's…
Ever since Bitcoin exploded onto markets, governments around the world have been exploring how to digitize their currencies. A total of 87 countries representing over 90 percent of global GDP are…
As the US and Iran head to talks in Geneva, competing forces are pulling Trump in opposite directions. There are only two "good" scenarios in front of him, and neither will be easy to achieve.
More than 40 years after PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan began building networks of trained operatives in Syria's north-east to infiltrate Türkiye, they have been sent packing
Christophe Ventura, a French expert on Latin America, speaks to Al Majalla about Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, and China's role in a continent that the US president considers his backyard.
Whether to legislate against Under-16s accessing a big part of contemporary society is a complex question involving law, technology, privacy, rights, and the nature of a child's development