Canada


Finance

Canada’s Largest Pension Fund No Longer Mulling Crypto Investment: Reuters

CPP Investment has nearly $400 billion in assets under management.

CPPI halts exploration of crypto investments (Kai Pilger/Unsplash)

Juridique

Canada's Manitoba Province Enacts 18-Month Moratorium on New Crypto Mining

The local heavily indebted public utility has received up to 4.6 GW of requests from miners looking to connect to the grid.

A panoramic view of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. (Bob Linsdell/Wikimedia Commons)

Technologies

Major Canadian Crypto Exchange Coinsquare Says Client Data Breached

The exchange claimed the breached personal data wasn't likely seen "by the bad actor” and customers' assets are “secure in cold storage and are not at risk.”

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Finance

Pension Giant Ontario Teachers' Plans to Write Off All $95M Invested in Crypto Exchange FTX

The investment in the now-bankrupt crypto exchange represented less than 0.05% of the fund's total net assets.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Cathedra Slashes Payroll Costs by Two-Thirds With Job, Salary Cuts

The Canadian company has also been liquidating bitcoin.

Bitcoin mining rigs (Image credit: Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Vidéos

Canada Launches Consultation on Crypto, Stablecoins and CBDCs

Canada's federal government announced a consultation on "cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies," in a fiscal update published Thursday. CoinDesk Global Policy & Regulation Managing Editor Nikhilesh De discusses what this means for crypto adoption and regulation in the country.

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Juridique

Canada Announces Crypto, Stablecoin Consultation in New Budget Statement

Federal government plans to examine crypto, which it said is "transforming financial systems" around the world.

Canada Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (Carlos Tischler/Getty Images)

Finance

Canadian Energy Provider Hydro-Quebec Proposes Stopping Electricity Supply to Blockchain Industry

The utility asked Canada's energy regulator to suspend the allocation of 270 megawatts that had previously been planned for blockchain industry in Quebec.

Bitcoin mining can soak up renewable energy that is hard to transmit or consume locally, giving a leg up to energy producers. (Yunha)

Finance

Digihost Bucks Bearish Trend Among Bitcoin Miners, Remains Cash-Flow Positive

The company remains debt free despite soaring energy prices and a stagnant crypto market.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Marchés

Bitcoin Jumps to $21K After Soft US Data, Less Hawkish Bank of Canada

The world's largest cryptocurrency by market volume is up by more than 7% on Wednesday to its highest level in more than a month.

Bitcoin continúa su repunte. (CoinDesk)