The European Union Commission has completed its investigation into social media platform X and will decide to fine it millions of euros.
According to the German business newspaper, the European Union Commission has completed its investigation of social media platform X and will decide to fine it millions of euros. (Jin Ten)
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump blasted European Union regulators for targeting Apple (AAPL. O), Google (GOOG. O) and Meta (META. O), calling the European Union's charges against U.S. companies "a form of taxation." The European Union's strict regulation of big tech companies is known around the world, often sparring with major social media platforms such as Facebook and X over content moderation and clashing with companies such as Apple and Google over antitrust issues....
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin joined other members of the crypto community in calling for the release of Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith, Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm and developer Alexey Pertsev. Buterin said on X on Wednesday that "no one is abandoned". Vitalik said: "You created Tornado Cash in large part because of my advice, and if I did that and then didn't support it when you needed help, it would be a betrayal of a fundamental honor. At Ethereum, I...
President Trump: The European Union will face tariffs.
On January 22nd, Kyle Samani, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, posted that in 2016, he entered the crypto space through Ethereum and was attracted by its vision of permissionless finance and smart contracts. However, at the Devcon 3 conference in November 2017, Vitalik's keynote speech did not mention scaling at all, which deeply disappointed Samani. He pointed out that the negative attitude and lack of urgency of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) on scaling issues caused him to lose confidence in Et...
Trump said he would impose tariffs on European Union goods.
On January 20, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, posted on social media about the suggestion that the Ethereum Foundation could pledge its ETH, saying that the historical concerns are: 1. Regulatory issues; 2. If the Ethereum Foundation pledges itself, this effectively forces us to take a position on any future controversial hard forks. Regulatory issues are less than before, but there are still problems with the Ethereum Foundation pledging itself. There are definitely ways to minimize, ...
The European Union Commission issued a communiqué on the 17th that it has taken additional investigation measures against the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) owned by American entrepreneur Elon Musk to evaluate whether the platform's recommender system complies with the relevant provisions of the European Union's Digital Services Act. The European Union Commission requires the X platform to provide internal documents of its recommender system by February 15, 2025, as well as...
On January 17, the European Union Commission took three additional technical investigative measures against the recommender system of the "X" platform. On December 18, 2023, the European Union announced the launch of a "formal lawsuit" against the social media platform "X" to assess whether it violated the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas such as risk management and content moderation. The current additional investigation is in addition to previous lawsuits. The European Unio...
Union, a cross-chain settlement layer, announced the launch of the Union Foundation, an independent organization dedicated to building a more secure, decentralized, and interoperable Web3. Its core focus is to fund initiatives that support the Union network and incentivize its growth through maintenance, continuous development, and decentralized application (dApp) creation, including a grant program and a Union Fellowship program. The Union Foundation announced the upcoming release of a token ec...
On January 11, Union, a cross-chain settlement layer, announced the launch of the Union Foundation, an independent organization dedicated to building a more secure, decentralized, and interoperable Web3. Its core focus is to fund initiatives that support the Union network and incentivize its development through maintenance, continuous development, and decentralized application (dApp) creation, including a grant program and a Union Fellowship program. The Union Foundation announced the upcoming r...
According to JPMorgan analysts, the European Union's landmark Crypto Asset Market (MiCA) regulation, which comes into effect on December 30, 2024, could boost the market share of euro-pegged stablecoins. Currently, euro-pegged stablecoins account for only 0.12% of the stablecoin market share, but MiCA could improve the situation by encouraging European Banks and Financial Institutions Groups to adopt euro stablecoins for customer demand and blockchain-based financial settlements, JPMorgan analys...