Australia News
Perth Heat Becomes World’s First Sports Team to Embrace a Bitcoin Standard
Stealing a march on its American counterparts, Australian Baseball League club the Perth Heat has become the first professional sports organ...
Queensland Distillery ‘Top Shelf’ Set to NFT Tequila Plants
Australian agave plants pre-purchasable as NFTs are to be turned into tequila and mezcal for thirsty collectors, bringing new meaning to the...
Bitcoin Surges to New All-Time High Amid Highest Inflation Levels in 31 Years
Over the past year, the US Federal Reserve has repeated the line that inflation is “transitory”, so much so that it became a mem...
AUSTRAC Issues Debanking Statement: ‘Australian Banks At Risk’
Australia’s anti-money laundering regulator AUSTRAC has issued a statement warning banks against closing accounts. The context is, jus...
ANZ Banking Chief on Crypto: ‘There is a Weight of Money You Can’t Ignore’
Between 2009 and early 2020, crypto and traditional finance operated in parallel universes. Then in March 2020, everything changed. Crypto a...
Australian Crypto ETF Passes $40 Million in First Day of Trading
BetaShares’ crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) debuted this week, smashing Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) trading records on its ...
ASIC Shuts Down Gold Coast Crypto Investment Scheme ‘A One Multi’, $2.4 Million in Crypto Seized
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained Federal Court orders to shut down unlicensed Gold Coast financial s...
Chainalysis Opens Canberra Office after Partnership with CBA Bank
New York-based Chainalysis, best-known as the on-chain data analysis platform, has recently announced its partnership with the Commonwealth ...
Aussie Exchange ACX Case: Blockchain Global Collapses Owing Creditors $21 Million
Australian crypto exchange ACX came in for criticism “multiple times” last year from concerned traders and users who reported th...
Australians Can Live On Crypto Using Bitrefill’s AU Services
Australian crypto traders made A$10k in profit on average in the past 12 months, leaving some looking for ways to spend their crypto, especi...
$100 Million Class Action Lawsuit Looms Against Aussie Crypto Qoin
Queensland-based Australian crypto dispute specialist law firm Salerno is preparing a A$100 million class-action suit against the issuers of...
ASIC Gives Green Light to BTC and ETH Spot ETFs, First Expected Next Week
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has finally given the green light to Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds ...