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In June 2009, one Bitcoin (the first Crypto) was valued at 0.0001 USD, by November 2021 the value of one Bitcoin has hit a record high of 68,990 USD. Currently, there are several cryptocurrencies available. Several banks and corporations across the globe have started to recognize cryptocurrency as a means of transaction. There are several courses available online for cryptocurrency so you can learn about this financial tool.

Here are the most popular online cryptocurrency courses.

Starting with what cryptocurrency is, Full Cryptocurrency Course: Bitcoin, Ethereum & Blockchain explains what blockchain, Bitcoin, and Ethereum are. The course goes into how to set up and store cryptocurrency in a wallet, trade and exchange cryptocurrencies, safety and security measures when using crypto, and how to participate in an ICO and invest with crypto.

Cryptocurrency Fundamentals: Buy, Sell, Trade Cryptocurrency teaches you what cryptocurrency is and its mechanisms of it. It will also teach you the different types of cryptocurrencies and which ones are the most valued. Further, it explains what Ethereum tokens are and the difference between coins and tokens, and the trading and storing of crypto.

In 24-hours The Complete Cryptocurrency Course: More than 5 Courses in 1 will briefly discuss blockchain, crypto investing, crypto mining, crypto wallets, and crypto exchanges. It then shows you the pros and cons of 10 popular Cryptos (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Monero, Zcash, Dash, NEO, Cardano, and Stellar) and how to buy and sell them. Furthermore, it covers 5 different exchanges and 5 different wallets.

Crypto Trading 101: Buy Sell Trade Cryptocurrency for Profit teaches how to invest and profit on crypto using Japanese candlestick charts, volume analysis, and breakout patterns. This 6-hour-long course starts with the basics of crypto and what blockchain technology is, and emphasizes technical patterns of trading with crypto including day trading.

Build a Blockchain and a Cryptocurrency from Scratch is the course that explains the building and implementation of blockchain and crypto. It also discusses the core concepts of blockchain such as proof-of-work algorithm, mining, and peer-to-peer connection. Moreover, it shows how to create API, unit test components, and create a transaction pool and a wallet.

In 16 hours, Cryptocurrency Investment Course 2022 will help you familiarize yourself with blockchain and cryptocurrency. Specifically, you will understand and exploit profitable narratives like NFT, Metaverse, Defi, Launchpads, gaming, and Meme Coins. The course also breaks down how to identify crypto with the biggest potential, use centralized platforms such as Binance and Coinbase, and decentralized ones like Uniswap and Pancakeswap.

Cryptocurrency: Complete Bitcoin, Ethereum, Altcoins! (8 HR) teaches you what cryptocurrency is and how it is used. It trains you on how to invest and trade with crypto as well as use it for personal use. The lessons also include ICO risks and rewards and their comparison to stock market IPOs, building your crypto portfolio matching your risk tolerance, and much more.

Updated for 2022, The Complete Cryptocurrency & Bitcoin Trading Course schools you with step-by-step technical crypto trading techniques and profitable strategies. Included in the lesson; setting up a crypto wallet and protecting it, candlestick chart analysis, identifying the right methodology to determine market trends and reversals, and how to protect your money when the market crashes.

Algorithmic Cryptocurrency Trading + Top 5 Robots in 2022 teaches you how to fully automate trading using 5 trading strategies as well as trading manually. You will also learn how to diversify your risks between 2 cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin and Ethereum), 2 different timeframes, and 5 strategies. And finally, you will get 5 EAs (Robots) for algorithmic crypto trading.

Cryptocurrency Investing Buy & Trade Bitcoin & Altcoins is a beginner course that elaborates on how to invest, buy and sell cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. It starts with how to buy crypto with real money and explains the fundamentals of Blockchain and Crypto including the cryptocurrency trading graph.

Understanding cryptocurrency can mean stepping into the future, as the world market is digitalizing and heading into a whole new dimension where money is decentralized. All courses mentioned above are self-paced courses that award a certificate of completion and lifetime access to all the learning materials and videos, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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The overseas British territory wants to become a global hub for crypto firms.

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Gibraltar has unveiled new regulations for the cryptocurrency industry, taking aim at potential market manipulation and insider trading in the fast-evolving space.

The overseas British territory, located on the southern tip of Spain, published an amendment to existing regulations Wednesday requiring firms dealing in bitcoin and other digital currencies to respect the integrity of markets in which they operate.

In a guidance note for regulated crypto companies, the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission says firms must combat "manipulation or improper influencing of prices, liquidity or market information, or any other behaviour which is inimical to market integrity."

"We were the first jurisdiction in 2018 to launch the legal and regulatory framework, and we're now the first jurisdiction to launch a framework for market integrity," Albert Isola, Gibraltar's minister for digital and financial services, told CNBC.

"The more there is around the world in terms of international standards for this space, the more trust, the more usage, and the more adoption we will have around the world," he added.

While perhaps better known as a seaport and popular vacation spot, Gibraltar is a hub for a number of other industries, including financial services and gambling. Its latest move forms part of an ongoing bid to lead the way in regulation of the digital currency industry.

Despite its small size, Gibraltar has a track record of developing rules for the crypto market. The region, which borders Spain but is under British control, first introduced a licensing regime for blockchain firms back in 2018.

Some fairly large names have set up shop in Gibraltar and obtained licenses from local regulators, including FTX, Huobi and Bullish, which is backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.

Executives from Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, also visited Gibraltar "some months back," but does not have a license, Isola said. The company is seeking to become a friend rather than foe to regulators after facing crackdowns in numerous countries last year.

The Gibraltar Stock Exchange recently agreed to be acquired by Valereum, a blockchain firm, in a bid to become the world's first regulated bourse for share and crypto trading. It's an aim Switzerland's SIX Swiss Exchange is also seeking to achieve with the creation of an exchange for trading blockchain-based securities.

The latest rules arrive as various major world economies, including the U.S. and U.K., are now introducing new rules to bring crypto into the regulatory fold.

"I think it's a sign that more and more jurisdictions are recognizing the need to do it," Isola said. "And the need to do it is because there's more and more adoption."

However, Isola insisted Gibraltar is "not doing this to market ourselves," adding: "We want a very small but quality number of firms within our jurisdiction."

Gibraltar has previously been criticized for being a "tax haven." Several major U.K. gambling firms, including Entain and 888, set up shop in the rocky peninsula, in part due to its favorable taxation regime. More recently, however, Gibraltar has sought to distance itself from such a reputation.

The region is "fully compliant with all transparency and exchange of information standards applicable in the U.K.," Isola said, adding this was at odds with descriptions of Gibraltar as a tax haven. Such transparency standards also apply to crypto, Isola added, meaning "the bar to entry is high."

Spain last year agreed to take Gibraltar off its list of tax havens after coming to a tax cooperation deal with the U.K. The issue has been a sticking point in London's negotiations with Madrid following Britain's withdrawal from the EU.

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Cisco and The APGA Tour Partner to Bolster Diversity and Inclusion in GolfByAndrew CohenMay 3, 2022

Computer networking firm Cisco has partnered with the APGA Tour to support diversity and inclusion in golf, including the launch of the new four-event APGA Junior Series for youth boy and girl golfers from diverse backgrounds. APGA pro golfers Kevin Hall, Aaron Beverly and Olajuwon Ajanaku also joined Cisco as new brand ambassadors, as well as Michigan State University golfer Troy Taylor II.

The APGA Tours Aug. 11-13 event at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey will now be called the Cisco Invitational at Baltusrol. Cisco will also continue to serve as the presenting sponsor of the Billy Horschel APGA Invitational, which begins tomorrow at TPC Sawgrass with the largest purse in APGA Tour history. Cisco will offer development sessions, mentoring opportunities and networking events with business and golf industry leaders to participating golfers at both events.

Hall, Beverly, Ajanaku and Taylor II join Ciscos golf ambassador roster that includes fellow APGA player Kamaiu Johnson, the PGA Tours Viktor Hovland, Brendon Todd, Keith Mitchell, Chez Reavie and Maverick McNealy, and the LPGA Tours Nelly Korda, Jessica Korda and Danielle Kang. Taylor II, a senior at MSU who made the Academic All-Big Ten last year, will wear Ciscos logo during non-collegiate amateur events as part of his NIL deal with Cisco.

Cisco and the APGA have also created the Adrian Stills Award to give to the APGA player who best represents character and sportsmanship. Stills is the APGA Tours co-founder and was one of the last African American golfers to reach the PGA Tour through its former Qualifying School format.

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The cryptocurrency industry has been quietly lobbying U.S. lawmakers against legislation designed to prevent Russian oligarchs from using digital currencies to evade sanctions imposed on Russian President Vladimir Putin's allies and their companies following Russia's attack on Ukraine.

The Blockchain Association, a lobbying group that represents more than 70 crypto platforms including Ripple, Crypto.com and Dragonfly Capital, is trying to convince Congress that cryptocurrencies aren't being used by wealthy Russians to to avoid sanctions. It's working with lobbying shop Forbes Tate Partners against legislation that would impose more sanctions on already penalized Russians who are aiming to use crypto as a way to avoid sanctions. The bill would also empower the Treasury secretary to block crypto trading platforms based in the U.S. from doing business with those in Russia.

Two bills have been introduced in U.S. House and Senate that gives the Biden administration the authority toprohibit U.S. crypto exchanges from processing payments from Russia. The bills would also allow U.S. authorities to sanction foreign exchanges that process transactions by sanctioned Russian people or companies.

The legislation poses a grave threat to the industry, which critics say has become popular for clandestine transactions because they cannot be traced. It would essentially subject digital currencies to some of the same rules that require federally insured banks to know their customers, combat money laundering and report suspicious transactions to regulators.

The group says it's helping Congress "separate fact from fiction on the inability of Russia to transfer large sums of money via crypto transactions in order to evade sanctions," according to an email from Curtis Kincaid, the group's spokesman. A Forbes Tate Partners representative declined to comment, referring CNBC to the Blockchain Association for questions.

Jake Chervinsky, the policy head of the Blockchain Association, later said the bills aren't targeting Russian oligarchs, they are taking direct aim at U.S. crypto companies.

"These bills don't target Russian oligarchs, who aren't using (& can't use) crypto to evade sanctions. They target upstanding US crypto companies for no apparent reason except @SenWarren's crusade against a technology she doesn't understand," Chervinsky said in a tweet after publication of this story.

The crypto industry has stepped up its lobbying efforts as the Biden administration takes a hard look at whether and how to regulate digital assets. President Joe Biden signed an executive order in March calling on regulators to examine the risks and benefits of cryptocurrencies.

The Blockchain Association spent $460,000 on its own in-house lobbyists during the first quarter, a record amount since it launched in 2018, lobbying disclosure records show. The crypto lobbying shop said last year it received more than $4 million in donations from three crypto giants: Digital Currency Group, Kraken and Filecoin Foundation.

The group is lobbying against the Russian Digital Asset Sanctions Compliance Act, according to its first-quarter report. The House bill would target Russians and their affiliated companies who try to use cryptocurrency to get around their own sanctions. Crypto industry leaders say the digital currencies can't be used to evade sanctions.

Some lawmakers, however, say digital currencies should be regulated the same as a bank since the industry pitches itself as an alternative banking system. The U.S. has sanctioned a plethora of Russian-based financial institutions, including the country's central bank. The Treasury Department recently took aim at bitcoin miners operating in Russia.

"The crypto industry fancies itself as an alternative financial system, an alternative bank. Banks have been sanctioned left, right and center, and banks are pulling out of Russia," Democratic Rep. John Garamendi of California, who is a co-sponsor of the House bill, told CNBC in a recent interview. "So if they fancy themselves a financial mechanism, then they're in the same league, the same situation, as Bank of America or a Russian bank."

The group is also lobbying on the accompanying bill sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in the Senate, according to its first-quarter lobbying disclosure report. That bill, titled the Digital Asset Sanctions Compliance Enhancement Act of 2022 an almost identical name as the one introduced by Democrats in the House is also designed "to impose sanctions with respect to the use of cryptocurrency to facilitate transactions by Russian persons subject to sanctions," according to a summary of the bill.

Warren, who is a member of the powerful Senate Finance and Banking committees, recently told National Public Radio that the bill is supposed to give the Treasury Department the tools to step up its oversight of crypto platforms.

"Russian oligarchs can continue to use crypto to move their money around. So we're just going to give Treasury the authorization to treat these crypto platforms much like the banks are treated. That is, you've got to know your customer and you can't be dealing with people who are in violation of sanctions," Warren said during the interview last month.

Warren accused the crypto industry of undermining U.S. national security and the sanctions against Russia.

"It's no surprise that the unregulated crypto industry has deep pockets and an army of lobbyists who are fighting against basic rules to keep consumers safe, but it's shocking that they would also work to undermine U.S. national security and our sanctions regime against Russia," Warren said in an emailed statement.

The Mortgage Bankers Association, an advocacy group for the mortgage finance industry, similarly listed on their quarterly filing the Klepto Act, a bipartisan bill backed by Warren, along with Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.; Bill Cassidy, R-La.; and Roger Wicker, R- Miss., according to the group's first-quarter report. A representative for the Mortgage Bankers Association initially did not return a request for comment.

Bill Killmer, a chief lobbyist for the Mortgage Bankers Association, told CNBC in a statement days after publication that it had yet to take a position on the bill.

"As you would expect, MBA monitors all legislation that could impact real estate finance including S. 4075 The KLEPTO Act. We have taken no official position on this bill," Killmer said in an emailed statement on Monday.

The legislation is designed to expose the real estate holdings "of oligarchs, kleptocrats, and international criminals hidden in the United States, strengthen U.S. anti-money laundering safeguards, and arm law enforcement with the information required to track down kleptocrats' luxury assets in the U.S. financial system," according to a press release.

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