Tanzeel Akhtar

Tanzeel Akhtar has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes Africa, Financial Times, The Street, Citywire, Investing.com, Euromoney, Yahoo! Finance, Benzinga, Kitco News, African Business Magazine, Hedge Week, Campden Family Office, Modern Investor, Spear's Wealth Management Magazine, Global Investor, ETF.com, ETF Stream, CIO UK, Funds Global Asia, Portfolio Institutional, Interactive Investor, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoNews.com, Bitcoin.com, The Local, The Next Web, Mining Journal, Money Marketing, Marketing Week and more. Tanzeel trained as a foreign correspondent at the University of Helsinki, Finland and newspaper journalist at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She holds a BA (Honours) in English Literature from the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and completed a semester abroad as an ERASMUS student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is NCTJ Qualified - Media Law, Public Administration and passed the Shorthand 100WPM with distinction. She does not currently hold value in any digital currencies or projects.

Tanzeel Akhtar

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Finance

Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger Adding DeFi Support to Mobile App

The updated app will let users connect to decentralized apps via an integration with open-source protocol WalletConnect.

Ledger

Policy

India May Side-Step Parliament to Push Through Crypto Bill: Report

The bill would potentially kick off the development of a digital rupee while banning “private cryptocurrencies.”

India's Parliament House, New Delhi

Markets

Arcane Crypto Lists on Nasdaq First North After Reverse Takeover

The Norway-based investment company is now known as Arcane Crypto AB and trades as "ARCANE."

Nasdaq Swedish Stock Exchange in Stockholm, Sweden.

Policy

Nigeria's Central Bank Orders Banks to Close Accounts of All Crypto Users

Any breaches of the order would face "severe regulatory sanctions," the central bank warned.

Lagos, Nigeria

Policy

PayPal Says Venmo Under Investigation in US by Consumer Regulator

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is probing the social payments app, according to Reuters.

Venmo is a division of payments company PayPal.

Finance

Gaming Company The9 Is Buying 5,000 More Bitcoin Miners

The firm announced its pivot to mining in January.

Bitcoin mining equipment

Policy

Hacker Refuses to Hand Police Password for Seized Wallet With $6.5M in Bitcoin

Throughout a two-year prison term, the man repeatedly refused to give wallet access to German authorities.

security

Tech

DeFi Project ArmorFi Awards $1.5M Bounty for Bug Alert That Potentially Saved Its Reserves

ArmorFi's CTO has also offered to get a tattoo chosen by the ethical hacker who found the bug.

software bug

Tech

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Has Set up His Own Bitcoin Node

Dorsey will now have a hand in keeping the bitcoin network running.

Jack Dorsey speaks at Oslo Freedom Forum 2020

Finance

Croatia's Tifon Gas Stations Hope to Tap Tourist Trade With Crypto Payment Support

Forty-six fuel stops will accept bitcoin, ether, stellar, XRP and EOS through a partnership with local platform PayCek.

Gradina Korenička, Croatia