Cuba News

Monetary reforms and a lack of regulation mean crypto is booming in Cuba.

Cubans are interested in Bitcoin as other major digital payment options like PayPal are unavailable.

Fiat trades are often completed for a sizable fee by bike-riding crypto enthusiasts.

Italian-Cuban entrepreneur launches Cuba’s first decentralized Bitcoin exchange, but global regulations and slow internet connections could confuse the issue.

Cointelegraph en Español presents a weekly digest of selected cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related news from the Spanish-speaking world.

Bitcoin is opening new avenues for citizens in communist-run Cuba, which has been financially isolated for years under a U.S. trade embargo.

John McAfee speaks with Cointelegraph about Facebook’s Libra, the importance of privacy and why he hasn’t paid U.S. taxes in eight years.

The country’s economy minister confirmed the plans to use crypto in local and international transactions.

The decentralized exchange developed by Binance warns that it will block website access from 29 countries.

The U.S. and Cuba transact in bitcoin, Coin (the all-in-one credit card) has revealed the second iteration of its card, Coinbase allows users to purchase bitcoin with debit and credit cards, and more top stories from this week in FinTech.

As the first recorded BTC transaction in history between Cuba and the United States is now history, Cointelegraph spoke with Ni’Coel Stark, Managing Principal and Co-Founder at Block26

Coinbase joins powerful DC special interest group “The Internet Association” alongside Google and EBay. Coinapult teams up with Factom in technical collaboration. Internet sleuth tracks down one winner of the Federal Marshall's Bitcoin auction, and much more news that happened on March 11.

Proof that Bitcoin can empower the minority, independent of political will or regulatory circumstance, is coming to light in 2015 – in Cuba.