2020-11-19 11:58 |
A group of Japanese companies plans to develop and test a private digital currency that would work alongside cash. origin »
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A former Bank of Japan official is concerned about a digital yen triggering massive outflows from private bank deposits.
2020-11-18 14:38 | |
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Blockchain analyst firm, BlockSeer has launched a private mining pool, currently, in beta, that will censor certain Bitcoin transactions. Given that the Bitcoin community emphasizes censorship-resistance, an essential feature of cryptocurrency that makes it differentiating from the central bank digital currencies, it’s pretty obvious that the company would come under fire for its move.
2020-11-14 22:33 | |
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Cryptographic techniques, like zk-SNARKs and blockchains, could ensure online voting is secure and private.
2020-11-11 21:27 | |
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Decentralized Oracle platform Razor Network has successfully raised a total of $3. 7 million in their seed and private sales round. The funding rounds were led by prominent investors in the blockchain world, including NGC Ventures, Alameda Research, Borderless Capital, IOSG Ventures, Origin Capital, Bixin Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, BTC12 Capital, ZMT capital, Kosmos Ventures, OneRead MoreRead More.
2020-11-5 17:06 | |
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The upcoming range of Huawei smartphones will have digital yuan wallets, the phone manufacturer has announced on Oct 30. Mate 40 Smartphones Have Digital Yuan Wallets Through its Weibo channel, the Shenzhen-based tech giant said the central bank-backed currency (CBDC) wallet on their Mate 40 series will be secure, private, and support offline transactions.
2020-11-1 00:00 | |
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The Kenyan central bank is having serious discussions with international players about pursuing a retail central bank digital currency, a top official said Monday. Patrick Njoroge, governor at the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) told U.
2020-10-27 22:46 | |
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Toyota Systems, a wholly-owned IT subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation announced today that it is experimenting with a digital currency solution as part of a new pilot project with DeCurret, a JapanThe post Toyota IT subsidiary to experiment with its own private digital currency appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-26 21:00 | |
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The digital currency exchange Okex disabled cryptocurrency withdrawals on Friday morning and explained that funds were “safe and not affected. ” Following the withdrawal announcement, regional reports claim that Okex’s founder Mingxing “Star” Xu was taken away by the police.
2020-10-17 21:00 | |
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Leading crypto-exchange OKex has suspended all digital assets and cryptocurrency withdrawals indefinitely until further notice. The issue in question is that one of the exchange’s private key holderThe post Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx suspends withdrawals on its platform appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-16 08:49 | |
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Q3 was the best quarter ever for Grayscale Investments, which serves institutional investors, family officers, and private investors. The largest digital asset manager took in more than $1 billion in new investment in its largest-ever quarterly inflows, marking it the third-straight quarter when the asset manager broke its own record for inflows.
2020-10-15 20:17 | |
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Fireblocks , an award-winning platform for securing digital assets, announced today that Revolut, the UK’s fastest growing private tech company and one of Europe’s largest...
2020-10-12 19:05 | |
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After selling more than $2 million in digital basketball cards during its private beta, NBA Top Shot is launching to the public.
2020-10-1 16:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency users are finding a growing need for quality virtual private networks (VPNs) to buy and sell their digital assets, as hackers’ eyes follow blockchains and present some danger. This article highlights how to buy seamless, cheap, and highly private VPNs using virtual assets including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Monero (XMR). The world is […]
2020-9-27 12:26 | |
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Realio, the technology ecosystem for institutional-grade digital assets, announces a partnership with Valentus Capital Management. The partnership enables the digitization of an array of private...
2020-9-26 18:42 | |
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Aspire Technology, developer of the Aspire digital asset creation platform, today announced the closing of both a $1. 175 million equity round and, shortly thereafter, a $1. 23 million private token presale for a total of more than $2.
2020-9-25 18:08 | |
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iownit capital and markets, Inc., a leading digital assets issuance and trading platform, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with...
2020-9-24 16:44 | |
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Coinspeaker WealthSimple Crypto Goes Live Today to Public Traders Regulated by Canadian AgenciesPreviously, WealthSimple crypto exchange existed in private beta with a user waitlist. Today its digital exchange platform will be open to public.
2020-9-23 14:35 | |
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Even though the DeFi market has been snatching up most of the attention in the blockchain space lately, there are other market segments that are humming along — including security tokens. tZERO’s Alternative Trading System (ATS), which is licensed to trade private digital securities, just turned in a record month, more than 2.
2020-9-18 00:25 | |
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The governor of the Banque de France said private sector involvement could benefit a future digital euro initiative.
2020-9-11 15:18 | |
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The EFF wants Coinbase to be more transparent in how it handles authorities' requests for users' private financial data.
2020-9-3 11:01 | |
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The Bank of Korea (BoK) has advanced its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) initiative following a recent call for collaboration with a private consultancy. This move will set ground for the second phase of South Korea’s CBDC with a speculated pilot launch in 2021.
2020-9-1 17:30 | |
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A former chief economist of the IMF said neither private digital currencies nor central bank digital currencies should hold a monopoly.
2020-8-20 13:02 | |
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BitOoda is expanding its suite of digital asset financial services through the launch of a digital private placement and SAFT brokerage division, following approval of...
2020-8-16 19:07 | |
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With China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) project still in progress, there are speculations that the digital yuan could be used to water down the dominance enjoyed by major players like Alibaba and Tencent.
2020-8-5 23:00 | |
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A director at the IMF has spoken of the value the private sector could bring to central bank digital currencies, should they be adopted by nations.
2020-7-28 18:44 | |
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The supreme court of China has recommended increasing the legal protection of property rights, including digital currency ownership rights. The recommendations also focus on solving issues such as “the use of public power to infringe private property rights, illegal seizures, and freezing of private enterprise property.
2020-7-22 23:30 | |
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Alpha Sigma Capital, an investment fund focused on blockchain companies, announced today that is has invested in Quant Network, whose mission is to solve the challenge of interoperability across private and public DLTs (Digital Ledger Technology).
2020-7-22 16:30 | |
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KNEO is a new platform for connected edge AI devices through blockchain technology, creating secure private networks which harvest data as digital assets.
2020-7-17 11:13 | |
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Last week, “Limited Partnership Fund Bill” was passed by the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The bill that aims at attracting private equity, real estate and venture capital funds to set up and operate in Hong Kong also covers investment in digital assets.
2020-7-17 17:53 | |
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The enterprise-grade bitcoin custody and crypto management service, Fidelity Digital Assets has revealed a recent partnership with the firm Kingdom Trust. The new alliance provides individual retirees with the ability to safeguard their bitcoin private keys alongside self-directed IRAs.
2020-7-16 01:00 | |
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A newly launched chat platform harnesses the Ethereum blockchain to ensure privacy between users, Decrypt reported July 8. Privacy-First Features Called DChat, the application comes from the minds behind Unstoppable Domains; a crypto-first platform that allows users to build censorship-resistant websites while paying in digital tokens.
2020-7-9 15:15 | |
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One of Bitcoin’s biggest proponents’ believers the pioneering digital currency would never be “truly private,” compared to the likes of Monero. Monero Supreme Talking on a YouTube live stream July 7, Andreas Antonopoulos said privacy features would soon come to Bitcoin, but they would never eclipse those found in privacy-centric tokens like Monero.
2020-7-9 13:07 | |
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SFB Technologies' chief economist sees a future for central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, but not for privately issued stablecoins.
2020-7-8 00:30 | |
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The euro is one of the world’s most renowned and stable fiat currencies, competing only with the US dollar if at all. In 2020, France and other EU countries are preparing to take the union’s dominance one step further by introducing a CBDC version of the euro.
2020-7-7 19:44 | |
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It’s no secret that the crypto industry is rife with scams, hacks, and other nefarious activities, with the decentralized and private nature of many digital assets being conducive to these types of undertakings.
2020-7-1 05:00 | |
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The team behind Avalanche, the highly-scalable, open-source platform for launching decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, has announced that Galaxy Digital, Bitmain, Initialized Capital, NGC Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, and other individuals have participated in a $12M private sale of its tokens.
2020-6-25 16:25 | |
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AVA Labs has closed a $12 million private token sale. The funding round – co-led by Galaxy Digital, Bitmain, Initialized and others – comes weeks before an anticipated mainnet launch.
2020-6-25 16:00 | |
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In anticipation of AVA mainnet launch this summer, Emin Sirer’s AVA project raises $12 million from major industry investors.
2020-6-26 16:00 | |
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On the back of China, France, and East Asian countries mulling their digital currency projects, Italy announced last week the creation of a Digital Euro, CoinDesk reported June 22. Ensure Public Trust Last week, the Italian Banking Association (ABI) said the country’s private and central banks were willing to pilot a digital euro project, withRead MoreRead More.
2020-6-22 14:07 | |
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Jerome Powell, the U.S Fed Reserve Chairman, has said that private entities should not be part of the creation process of a digital dollar. Appearing before the House Financial Services Committee on June 17, the Fed Chair highlighted that monetary policy functions should be left to the central banks regardless of the operating ecosystems. On […]
2020-6-18 19:14 | |
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said central banks should design and implement CBDCs, not private entities.
2020-6-18 22:54 | |
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Most people today look at social platforms like any other private company, but what if we saw them as alternative jurisdictions with a new set of property rights?
2020-6-10 22:00 | |
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Central bank digital currencies endanger private banks, warned the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
2020-6-6 16:19 | |
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Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ), India’s biggest private port operator has partnered with blockchain-powered digital container logistics platform TradeLens to optimize its port operations and improve supply chain management (SCM).
2020-5-28 00:00 | |
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Digital currencies are being increasingly looked into around the world, with most governments and corporations alike working on some iteration of the technology. In this regard, a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes a private-public nexus is the way forward for CBDCs.
2020-5-28 19:00 | |
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Synthetic CBDCs could let the private sector manage digital currencies backed by central banks, says the IMF's Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli.
2020-5-27 00:30 | |
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The world has been grappling with the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic, but every new day has exposed new sets of problems. As governments around the globe try to mend economies, private businesses have aThe post RippleNet member MoneyGram notes 18% growth in digital remittances appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-5-23 22:30 | |
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International payments processor Visa won a patent describing a digital currency protocol on May 14. The system works on a private blockchain and uses native tokens to facilitate transactions. Good for Crypto? As Forbes reported, the Visa blockchain would feature native “digital dollars” and other central bank-issued fiat currencies.
2020-5-15 17:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Japanese Government to Create Panel to Explore Digital Yen While there is a plan to set up a panel in April, the Japanese government is also launching a pilot program for the digital yen in the same month.
The Bank of Japan has announced its readiness to explore the issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) through a pilot program launching in April.
The cryptocurrency market would benefit from the presence of the Digital Yen and other… The post Monex Group CEO says Digital Yen will boost crypto market appeared first on Coin Journal.
Oki Matsumoto said a central bank digital currency would make it easier to convert cryptocurrency into legal tender.