What a difference almost two years can make. In 2023, Coinbase, the large mainstream crypto exchange, announced that its Dublin office would be its EU regulatory hub. The EU’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation, or MiCA, was coming down the tracks and the company was gung-ho on getting its licence for the new pan-European regulation in Ireland. “The regulator here is firm but fair,” a company executive told The Currency at the time about why it chose Ireland for this endeavour and why it would be applying to the Central Bank of Ireland for its MiCA licence when the time…

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