2020-5-25 16:00 |
To reap the full benefits of digital currencies, central bankers need to consider decentralizing some authority, say the authors of a new report. origin »
Bitcoin price in Telegram @btc_price_every_hour
|
With central banks across the world pumping billions of dollars into the economy through monetary and fiscal policies, never has the need for a central bank digital currency [CBDC] been more clearer.
2020-5-22 16:30 | |
|
|
Various governments around the world are looking for ways to actively regulate the cryptocurrency industry. In The Netherlands, a new proposal may spell the end for a few cryptocurrency service providers.
2020-5-12 01:00 | |
|
|
The European Central Bank looks at stablecoins as key instruments that can help consumers meet demand in the payments services, but wants regulators to be proactive in addressing regulatory gaps that can pose risks.
2020-5-7 12:33 | |
|
|
A new article from China’s Central Party School affirms the nation’s commitment to blockchain technology and stresses its need for governance. The Central Party School of the Community Party of China is among the top institutions in the country which trains officials for the Community Party of China.
2020-3-31 06:15 | |
|
|
While Bitcoin was born independent of traditional finance, events taking place on Wall Street have become increasingly important to the cryptocurrency. This was proven today when the Federal Reserve made history, cutting its policy interest rate to zero percent, meaning that banks need to pay nothing to borrow money from the American central bank.
2020-3-16 01:51 | |
|
|
The outgoing Bank of England (UK Central Bank) governor Mark Carney has reiterated his sentiments regarding a Central Bank Digital Currency. This was after the UK Central bank released a dossier touching on the CBDC that is supposed to store value and facilitate payments for both domestic and commercial transactions. The Outgoing Canadian is on […]
2020-3-13 22:19 | |
|
|
Central governments across the globe are currently mulling over the need for a central bank digital currency [CBDC]. All thanks to China, for it was the first country to research and accelerate its efThe post Ethereum's Buterin: Digitization is inevitable, with or without blockchain appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-3-5 21:30 | |
|
|
The Bank of Canada does not see the need to create a central bank digital currency unless a competitor – like Libra – starts dethroning the existing fiat.
2020-2-26 23:50 | |
|
|
Sarah John, chief cashier of the Bank of England (BoE) says governments should seriously consider creating central bank digital currencies (CBDC) as a countermeasure to private crypto projects. Central Banks Need to Dominate Digital Currency Space Speaking to the Telegraph, John highlighted the need for central banks to consider CBDC as a viable option.
2020-2-25 20:00 | |
|
|
Facebook's Libra sparked a heated conversation on stablecoins and central bank digital currency [CBDC] issuance across the globe and as a result, several central banks have jumped into the conversatioThe post Bank of England exec highlights need to consider digital currencies as options appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-2-25 18:25 | |
|
|
Governments need to research digital currencies so they can strike a balance with private issuers, said the BoE's chief cashier.
2020-2-25 14:50 | |
|
|
At a conference hosted by the National Bank of Ukraine, several central bankers rejected the need for CBDCs, arguing blockchain technology offered no benefits over other digital alternatives. After Positive...The post Canadian Central Banker Unimpressed with Swedish Approach to CBDCs appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-24 13:35 | |
|
|
Following the latest G20 meetings in Riyadh, the Group of 20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors have urged countries to implement FATF standards on cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets.
2020-2-24 22:28 | |
|
|
Bank of Korea sees no need to generate a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), an official shared the regulator’s position. Despite the overwhelming presence of cryptocurrency projects in South Korea, the country’s central bank is skeptical of the drive for CBDCs.
2020-2-7 17:00 | |
|
|
These are the times when the need for blockchain technology will increasingly come to light. One of the central problems that blockchain technology addresses is the problem of trust between participants in the business process.
2020-2-6 14:00 | |
|
|
With Japanese lawmakers pushing for a digital yen, Masayoshi Amamiya, deputy governor of the country’s central bank says Japan needs an agile action plan for a central bank digital currency (CBDC). No immediate Plans to Launch Digital According to Reuters, Amamiya says the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has no immediate plans to launch a CBDC.
2020-1-31 02:00 | |
|
|
A group of Japanese lawmakers from the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is planning on a proposal for Japan to issue a national digital currency, otherwise known as the digital yen. The need to develop a digital yen would seek to counter China’s digital yuan; meanwhile, more central banks across the globe are either studyingRead MoreRead More.
2020-1-26 02:00 | |
|
|
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) says citizens do not need cryptos as the country’s mainstream financial framework already has working solutions for cross-border remittances. The Indian central bank also clarified the legal situation of cryptocurrencies in the country, stating that there is no ban on virtual currencies.
2020-1-23 20:00 | |
|
|
The pressure is mounting on the major economies of the world. This can be clearly evidenced by observing central bank monetary policy over recent years in various countries. Bitcoin was envisaged to solve this problem but more people need to start using it for that to occur.
2020-1-14 02:00 | |
|
|
China’s new sovereign digital currency would not be open to speculation like other cryptocurrencies, said a Chinese central bank official on Saturday. Mu Changchun, head of the People’s Bank of China’s digital currency research institute said it would be a “digital form of the yuan” that wouldn’t need the backing of a basket of fiat […]
2019-12-23 19:11 | |
|
|
According to recent statements by People’s Bank of China (PBOC) official Mu Changchun, the country’s digital yuan is ready for trials. The central bank digital currency (CBDC) will decidedly not be a speculative asset like bitcoin or stablecoins, and will not need a currency basket for backing, Changchun affirmed.
2019-12-23 10:21 | |
|
|
Market prices don't reflect rational decisions and central banks can hardly manage inflation. That's where bitcoin comes in.
2019-12-21 19:30 | |
|
|
The world’s major central banks are waging war to determine who can make their respective fiat currency weaker. With the likelihood of even more money printing and negative interest rates ahead, people need to be ready to see the value of their money evaporate and the price of everything else go up.
2019-7-24 17:50 | |
|
|
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has given its take on Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project. The apex bank has said that Libra comes with phenomenal risks that need to be properly understood, reports local news source, Telecompaper on July 22, 2019.
2019-7-23 05:00 | |
|
|
As the time to release their Q2 revenue totals draws nearer with each passing day, established financial institutions like JP Morgan and Wells Fargo are beginning to realize that they can no longer ignore the growing clout of the crypto industry.
2019-7-13 18:46 | |
|
|
Coinspeaker Facebook’s Libra is ‘Just Too Dangerous’, Says ECB PolicymakerJust recently the European Central Bank (ECB) has yet again commented on the Facebook Libra project and now they are saying that “it's too dangerous” and regulators need to improve the way they work.
2019-7-9 17:08 | |
|
|
The chief of the Bank for International Settlements has acknowledged that central banks will likely soon need to issue their own digital currencies.
2019-7-2 11:00 | |
|
|
President Donald Trump took a swipe at the Federal Reserve Chairman this week, saying Jerome Powell’s rush to raise interest rates hampered an economy that didn’t need tightening. Draghi, Not Powell Donald Trump said he would prefer the actions of European Central Bank President Mario Draghi – and wanted him as Fed Chairman instead – […] The post Trump Prefers ECB’s Draghi as Fed Chair in Epic Powell Diss appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-6-27 02:15 | |
|
|
Facebook’s Libra must comply with anti-money laundering regulation and needs banking licenses, according to the Bank of France Governor
2019-7-3 16:12 | |
|
|
By CCN Markets: After ten years, the Reserve Bank of Australia has decided that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies don’t pose a threat to Aussie dollars or other forms of fiat payment. The RBA concludes, after reviewing everything it knows about cryptocurrency, that it’s “difficult to envisage” an outbreak of Bitcoin users in the down under.
2019-6-21 10:55 | |
|
|
Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
|
|
Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the African continent. Through Bitcoin, millions of unbanked Africans will have access to financial services. These and many more such statements exist across the internet.
2019-6-1 21:48 | |
|
|
By CCN: The Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania has spoken about the merits of central bank digital currencies. He has labeled them as a new, more efficient, offering from central banks across the globe.
2019-5-31 10:40 | |
|
|
IOTA, a distributed ledger protocol for the Internet of Things, has released a new white paper detailing an upcoming software upgrade that promises to improve scalability and get rid of the network’s most centralized component – the Coordinator.
2019-5-28 18:02 | |
|
|
To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
|
|
The Neutro Protocol solves the trilemma of scalability, security and decentralization, allows for anonymous transactions and eradicates the need for centralized oracles. Neutro users can create a decentralized version of almost any real-world market that exists now only in a centralized system that we all use currently.
2019-5-15 14:13 | |
|
|
It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
|
|
Cross border payments represent one of the most self-evident use cases of cryptocurrencies. Digital currencies move across borders faster than traditional payment pathways, with reduced friction points and no need for an intermediary.
2019-5-10 20:43 | |
|
|
Cash is becoming a thing of the past in Sweden where some restaurants only accept card payments, a recent development that can have significant ramifications for the monetary system. “The...
2019-4-30 20:43 | |
|
|
Сеть биткоина преодолела очередной рубеж. За всю историю первой криптовалюты ее блокчейн обработал уже более 400 млн транзакций. The Bitcoin blockchain has processed more than 400 million transactions, and it didn’t need anyone’s approval.
2019-4-9 14:42 | |
|
|
A newly developed system of money aimed at the internet is offered by INOEX offering its services as Cryptocurrency Exchange. Enjoy peer to peer payment system and use the concept of digital currency.
2019-4-5 12:04 | |
|
|
The Pakistani government will now regulate local cryptocurrency firms under new legislation. Local news outlet The Express Tribune reported that the government of Pakistan will introduce Electronic Money Institutions (EMI) regulations based on the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
2019-4-2 01:33 | |
|
|
Pauline Adam Kalfon, a blockchain and financial services partner at PwC France, explained that central banks may start to accept the idea of issuing their own digital currency once big companies have stress-tested the technology, as noted on Forbes on March 22, 2019.
2019-3-25 12:00 | |
|
|
Hodl Hodl, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it is launching a prediction market on Bitcoin. Slated for launch in the spring of 2019, it would be the first Bitcoin-based prediction market to go live on Bitcoin’s mainnet.
2019-3-9 00:16 | |
|
|
South Korea's central bank says there’s no urgent need to issue a central bank digital currency in the near term, but plans to conduct more research
2019-1-30 15:06 | |
|
|
BitTorrent is a pioneer digital platform for a distributed communication protocol, invented by Bram Cohen in 2001. The platform embraces a peer-to-peer protocol, which uses economic incentives to facilitate the delivery of large and highly demanded files within the internet, thus eliminating the need for a trusted central server. The open protocol has been in […]
2019-1-25 10:00 | |
|
|
Numerous crypto enthusiasts firmly believe that the greatest challenge to Bitcoin’s maximalist “victory” – an achievement unimaginable without mass adoption – comes not from the regulatory caprices of various governments or the ill-intentions of central bankers, but rather from competing cryptocurrency protocols.
2019-1-23 02:11 | |
|
|
Decentralized exchange Bisq has upgraded its software with an entirely new User Interface (UI) design and the launch of the Bisq Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) on testnet.
2019-1-9 21:05 | |
|
|
Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
|
|
CoinDesk University’s School of Stablecoin and Agentic Commerce will give you the tools to move beyond understanding to action.
The industry’s most significant opportunities are being forged during this period of uncomfortable volatility. Here’s why, argues Grider.
The credit card giant’s pricey payment to buy stablecoin platform, BVNK, says more than any strategy deck or earnings call ever could.
Crypto cycles trap retail in speculation. Savings layers with capital preservation and prize incentives rewrite participation for consistent gains.
AI deepfakes make trust crypto’s scarcest asset. Proof-of-humanity can become the currency powering finance, governance and markets in the imitation economy.
By hosting manipulable contracts, prediction markets swap their long-term credibility for short-term engagement.
Crypto’s hidden trading costs demand the adoption of transaction cost analysis. Slippage, fees and fragmentation erode trust as crypto matures into institutional markets.