2019-8-20 19:00 |
Bank of America is seeking to patent security tech for digital currency wallets that gives different users different levels of access to stored funds. origin »
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Central banks worldwide are examining the possibility of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), with some already testing theirs for different uses. Countries that have advanced their digital currency projects include China, Singapore, Canada, the Bahamas, Thailand, Uruguay, and Sweden.
2019-8-15 09:53 | |
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There are many different ways for consumers to obtain Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in this day and age. Convenience often plays a crucial role in this regard, albeit there is still a lot of work to be done in that regard.
2019-7-31 04:00 | |
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The debate on allowing cryptocurrency to be used within Japan has been interesting, to say the least. While the nation has been capitalizing on the benefits that blockchain technology can offer, cryptocurrency has been a vastly different story.
2019-7-6 22:59 | |
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The collapse of three banks on three different continents indicates a new global crisis is brewing. But it may also show that the last one never really ended and the tools used to manage the global economy simply don’t work.
2019-7-6 19:45 | |
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The founder of an online bank has accused social media giant Facebook of stealing his company’s logo for their new crypto project, Calibra. This is the latest eyebrow that has been raised since Zuckerberg and co decided to take on the world’s banks with their latest offering.
2019-6-21 08:37 | |
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Cryptocurrency is expanding to regions around the world, though every country has different ways of handling it. Some countries have created regulations that are more suitable to development in their economies, but central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are slowly gaining momentum.
2019-6-18 00:40 | |
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Could any two investments seem more different than precious metals like gold and silver versus digital currencies? One is dug from the ground, forged in flames and hurts like heck when you drop it on your foot.
2019-5-29 18:46 | |
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The largest commercial bank in Thailand, Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) – which recently disclosed its interest in the different applications of blockchain technology has stated that it will be partnering with Ripple for the deployment of blockchain solutions.
2019-5-24 10:16 | |
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By CCN: Ser Bronn is a very different person in real life than he is in Game of Thrones. Played by actor Jerome Flynn, Bronn ended the series as part of incoming King Bran the Broken’s council, in charge of the Iron Bank as Master of Coin.
2019-5-22 00:21 | |
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It’s a well-known fact in crypto circles that Vechain is quite strong in product quality assurance. However, it’s a different ball-game altogether when a major institution recognizes it. Recently, Siam bank, the largest bank in Thailand, ran an article touching on blockchain and its uses in different industries. One of the blockchains that they recognized […]
2019-5-20 12:56 | |
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On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.
2019-5-11 21:34 | |
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French lending giant Societe Generale has become the latest traditional financial company to experiment with digital tokens. The bank’s Ethereum-based tokenized bonds have the potential to bring cryptocurrencies to a market worth over $2 trillion.
2019-5-10 18:20 | |
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U. S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York has charged two individuals for providing “shadow banking” services to crypto exchanges. According to a statement by Geoffrey S.
2019-5-2 23:54 | |
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By CCN. com: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has published its official document on a draft framework for fintech regulatory sandbox entitled “Draft Enabling Framework for Regulatory Sandbox. ” The document explicitly excluded crypto assets like bitcoin, demonstrating a lack of intent to regulate the local crypto market.
2019-4-19 14:13 | |
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On Thursday, April 18, 2019, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a report on what they refer to as the “Regulatory Sandbox” (RS), which explores the different facets of FinTech. The reason for such publication stems for the general public as reported by RBI.
2019-4-18 23:31 | |
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CEOs of different recognized banks have testified before the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee regarding how the banking industry has changed over the last 10 years. The meeting took place on April 10, and other topics such as digital currencies and blockchain technology have also been addressed. Since Bitcoin’s creation 10 years ago, […]
2019-4-11 20:13 | |
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Acquisition To Revolutionize Fin-Tech For Crypto-to-Fiat Transfers? Nimiq recently announced their partnership with WEG Bank AG and Agora. Trade to create a groundbreaking crypto-to-fiat bridge. This strategic collaboration has been further strengthened by Nimiq acquiring a 9.
2019-4-7 10:44 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Olusegun Ogundeji. Bitcoin has crossed the $5,000 price range again (after its first reach to that level in 2017) following a sudden breakout on April 2, 2019.
2019-4-4 18:42 | |
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Several users have reported that the US Federal Reserve Bank’s real-time settlement system has gone offline for a brief period of time. This prevented banks from completing a number of transactions, further highlighting the issues of centralized systems.
2019-4-2 20:00 | |
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Two companies from different parts of Europe have recently announced new products that cater to the financial needs of businesses in the crypto industry. The services range from opening bank accounts to providing payment processing solutions.
2019-3-30 16:59 | |
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Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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Decentralized payment processing service BTCPay Server announced a new service available through their platform on February 22, 2019: a way to request payments by simply sharing a URL, thereby streamlining many of the model’s existing hangups.
2019-2-27 23:26 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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It’s Monday, you know what that means. It’s time for Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s cryptocurrency and blockchain news. By no fault of our own, this week, things are a little different.
2019-2-25 12:48 | |
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Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have been analyzed by several banking institutions around the world, specifically by several central banks in different countries. However, they are different than virtual currencies such as Bitcoin (BTC).
2019-2-17 14:42 | |
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Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and Bitcoin could scarcely be more different. One is permissioned, the other permissionless; one centralized, the other decentralized; one is censorable, the other censorship-resistant.
2019-2-16 18:04 | |
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A financial professional paid $10 to his bank for making more than six saving withdrawals. Later, he admitted that using Bitcoin could have been cheaper. Short the Bankers Pat Chirchirillo, a financial advisor at Philadelphia-based McAdam Financial, found a 3,233% different between the cost of withdrawals in banks and Bitcoin.
2019-1-31 03:00 | |
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This is the fourth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 and on Day 3.
2019-1-19 00:10 | |
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This is the third instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 and on Day 2.
2019-1-18 00:05 | |
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According to China Judgements Online, a database of Chinese court documents, half of all lawsuits pertaining to cryptocurrencies were filed last year, highlighting an increase in fraudulent activity despite China’s regulatory crackdown.
2019-1-5 23:55 | |
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In a recent tweet uploaded by Bank XRP, a popular XRP and Ripple supporter shared a few videos with representatives of different companies and agencies talking about the payment industry. In the first video, Dave Sapenaro, the First Vice President and COO of the Federal Reserve of St. Louis, said that there are hundreds of […]
2019-1-5 21:25 | |
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CoinSpeaker Bloomberg: Tether Has Full Fiat Reserves For Its Circulating USDT Tokens Bloomberg has recently reviewed the bank statements of Tether for different months over the lasy year and found that they hold sufficient reserves to back its ciculating USDT supply.
2018-12-19 08:26 | |
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Use Of Crypto Becomes Clearer In Bahrain After Central Bank Establishes Draft Regulations Countries around the world seem to be gravitating towards one of three different ways of handling cryptocurrency – banning it, establishing unclear rules that are constantly being reassessed, or clearly regulating it. In a new report from Reuters on December 13th, the […]
2018-12-15 23:27 | |
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Бывший специалист американского банка First National Bank Ричард Коркоран присоединился к команде BitGo в роли руководителя подразделения, предоставляющего институциональным клиентам услуги по хранению цифровых валют.
2018-12-10 17:53 | |
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The hardcore crypto purists dislike Ripple because they do business with the big banks and because Ripple is not too different from what we already have today. Ripple xCurrent system is a product used for bank to bank transfers, its an IOU where Ripple is the middleman and it is centralized.
2018-12-2 18:23 | |
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Blockchain Payroll Platform WorkChain. io has partnered with tokenization platform STASIS to enable euro-backed crypto paychecks for its European Union (EU) users with the EURS stablecoin.
2018-12-1 21:00 | |
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In an effort to create a financial ecosystem around the wallet application, SovereignWallet company develops what it calls the “Algorithmic central bank” for the platform, along with the “Meta blockchain”, capable of using different protocols.
2018-11-21 10:29 | |
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When the towers in New York fell, I became obsessed with economics. I wanted to follow the money to understand what happened on that dreadful day. During that time of inquiry, I found myself very interested in Austrian economic theory.
2018-11-21 19:26 | |
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In a report from Kommersant, a Russian business newspaper, the collaborative effort between four different parties will change the way that blockchain is handled. Specifically, the partnership between Gaxprom Neft and Priorbank of Belarus (the Russian subsidiary of Raiffeisen Bank International) are declaring a guarantee on blockchain technology. According to the report, the purpose of […]
2018-11-14 04:58 | |
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Jackson Palmer, the creator of Dogecoin, criticized the aspirations of many crypto enthusiasts who are waiting for large institutional organizations to enter the cryptocurrency market. According to him, their appearance will deprive the cryptocurrency world of its main advantage.
2018-11-14 14:22 | |
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Very few positive stories come out of China with cryptocurrency in the headlines. This one is no different as the central bank has continued with its rhetoric over the risks of dealing with digital currencies.
2018-11-9 16:00 | |
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Due to the Bitcoin market’s remarkable growth over the last 10 years, it is now possible to buy Bitcoin in a number of different ways. Some of the most popular ways to do this are with a traditional debit/credit card or bank account on a cryptocurrency exchange.
2018-11-2 19:45 | |
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Agents of the Indian government have met to formally discuss a possible ban on private cryptocurrency holdings in the nation. On October 30, 2018, the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) issued a press release detailing their recent meeting where they “reviewed the current global and domestic economic situation and financial sector performance.
2018-11-1 22:37 | |
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The Victorieum Offshore bank supports a variety of cryptocurrencies hence enabling the user to handle seamlessly, and trade in different available currencies. A Victorieum user enjoys full bank account details where International Bank Account Number (IBAN) and Bank Identifier Code (BIC) are used as an account number and sort code written in a standard, internationally recognized format.
2018-10-25 04:33 | |
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Alpha-X is a blockchain based money related stage and computerized resource converter connect with implicit digital money for instalments of charges, execution of brilliant contracts and extra usefulness.
2018-10-24 16:03 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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ING Bank Announced New Progress on Blockchain Privacy at Sibos Conference Blockchain technology continues to be advanced through different use cases, but ING Bank is focusing on the privacy of it. They’ve launched a new product called the Zero-Knowledge Set Membership (ZKSM) solution.
2018-10-22 19:02 | |
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The use of digital currency in payments for goods and services has hit various hurdles as was seen with LitePay closing as did FuzeX recently delaying the launch of their highly anticipated debit cards.
2018-10-12 23:00 | |
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The popular digital currency exchange, Bitfinex has reportedly stopped its USD deposits to their exchange. This news comes after last weeks, several rumours that the exchange was broke which made management forced to step up and deny the rumours that they were not bankrupt.
2018-10-11 21:30 | |
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