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.

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Finance

Sotheby’s to Allow Live Bidding in Ether for Works by Banksy

Auctioneer Oliver Barker will be fielding real-time bids for the famed street artist’s “Trolley Hunters” and “Love Is In The Air.”

‘CryptoPunk’ NFT Sells for $11.8M at Sotheby’s

Finance

Bitwise Withdraws Bitcoin Futures ETF Filing, Citing Cost, Complexity

The asset manager still has a spot Bitcoin ETF filing in the pipeline.

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan

Finance

ECB Hires Former ING Director as Digital Euro Program Manager

Evelien Witlox starts in January and will work on the ECB’s investigation phase of the digital euro project.

ECB image via Shutterstock

Finance

Twitter Is Launching a Dedicated Crypto Team

The social media giant has tapped Tess Rinearson to lead its new team focused on decentralizing social media.

Twitter Picks Crypto Developer Jay Graber to Run Decentralized Social Media Wing 'Bluesky'

Finance

Voyager Digital Hits 1M Funded Accounts, Cites Loyalty Program

The cryptocurrency broker also said it has more than 2.7 million verified users.

Steve Ehrlich, co-founder and CEO of Voyager

Finance

Cambridge University to Build Carbon Credit Marketplace on Blockchain

The program will tackle challenges around using the purchase of carbon credits to fund nature-based solutions preserving biodiversity.

King's College, Cambridge University. (alexxxis/Pixabay)

Finance

CityCoin’s Plan for NYCCoin Is Welcomed by Mayor-Elect Adams

Eric Adams tweeted his support for the program after CityCoin said it would follow its MiamiCoin model in the Big Apple.

New York City (Shutterstock)

Policy

Austria to Tax Crypto Like Stocks and Bonds: Report

The Austrian Finance Ministry is planning to apply a 27.5% capital gains levy on digital currencies, including bitcoin and ether.

Vienna, Austria

Finance

Palantir Expecting Big Things From New Crypto Security Software

An executive for the data analytics software company said he thinks Palantir’s Foundry product will be a “massive accelerant for crypto companies.”

Peter Thiel, co-founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Leads $50M Funding Round for Matter Labs

Matter Labs will use the funding to expand its scientific and engineering teams and finance its business growth.

andreessen