Swiss city of Lugano to make Bitcoin and Tether 'de facto' legal tender
- Major index providers are officially cutting #Russian assets from their gauges, ratcheting up the pressure on an exchange-traded fund industry already facing an extraordinary stress test
- Aiming to become Europe's Bitcoin capital, Lugano, Switzerland, has formed a partnership with stablecoin issuer #Tether to establish #bitcoin, Tether and Lugano's own LVGA Points token as essentially legal tender in the city
- The #euro slid to its lowest level in almost six years against Britain's pound and was pinned near 21-month lows versus the dollar as a fresh surge in energy prices heightened worries about the euro area economic outlook
- #BTCUSD dove 3.4%
- #WTIUSD dove 1.2%