2020-10-21 11:51 |
The Bahamas has officially launched the world's first national digital currency, the sand dollar.
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Alex Gladstein provides a historical recount of how the United States rug pulled the entire world and asserted the dollar as the dominant global currency.
2021-11-21 00:27 | |
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St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard doesn’t think the leading digital currency poses a serious threat to the US dollar’s status as the world's reserve currency. “I just think for Fed policy, it's going to be a dollar economy as far as the eye can see and whether the gold price goes up or […] The post Bitcoin or its Meteoric Rise Pose No Threat to the Global Dollar Economy Or its Reserve Currency Status: Fed President first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-2-17 18:27 | |
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The US dollar will struggle to remain the global reserve currency, in the coming decades, having already completed its tenure as a GRC. “The US dollar has been the world’s dominant reserve currency for almost a century,” wrote, bank’s strategist Craig Cohen in a report earlier this month. “We believe the dollar could lose its […]
2019-7-25 20:16 | |
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Bitcoin challenging the US dollar’s worldwide supremacy seems more likely after it emerged that even the country’s biggest bank thinks the status quo cannot last. Central Banks Amassing Gold ‘Makes Sense’ In a report issued July 10, Craig Cohen, a strategist for JPMorgan Chase, said changing habits among non-US central banks are creating a real sense of unease about the dollar’s long-term status.
2019-7-24 13:00 | |
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Former director of U. S. Mint, Ed Moy, and American investor and economist, George Gilder, debated the nature of sound money and how Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, including Facebook’s Libra, compare to it.
2019-7-23 04:00 | |
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The first reserve currency in the near future will depreciate – said Bank of America, analyzing the statements, intentions and decisions of Donald Trump. Citing the Big Mac Index, recently published by The Economist, the bank notes that the dollar is significantly overvalued to other currencies. For example, to the euro – by almost 20%, […]
2019-7-17 15:39 | |
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P2P bitcoin trade is surging in Zimbabwe via mobile exchange platforms like Ecocash, despite recent government efforts to curb the use of competing currencies locally. As of June 24, the reinstated Zimbabwe dollar (formerly RTGS dollar) is now the only recognized currency in the economically embattled southern African country.
2019-7-13 20:30 | |
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The US president crashed on cryptocurrencies and criticized Facebook's crypto project Libra. US dollar is the most powerful currency in the workd, believes Donald Trump.
2019-7-13 18:06 | |
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Donald Trump has taken to Twitter yet again, and this time he’s talking about bitcoin and the superiority of the United States dollar. Bashing lack of regulation and potential for criminal activity inherent to crypto, Trump claims the U.
2019-7-12 14:15 | |
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Coinspeaker Donald Trump Takes a Dig at Bitcoin and Facebook’s Libra, Says They Are ‘Not Money’Speaking at the social media summit, US President Donald Trump takes a jibe at Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.
2019-7-12 10:14 | |
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Cryptocurrencies took the center stage again during Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s second day of testimony before the U. S. Senate. Today, lawmakers expressed their concerns about the threat that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies pose to the financial system, including the possible challenge of bitcoin replacing the U.
2019-7-12 01:02 | |
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Ten years ago, Zimbabwe scrapped its national currency after the inflation rate climbed astronomical levels. Now, a decade later, the Zimbabwe dollar is making a comeback. But Zimbabwean expect the new currency to tank.
2019-7-11 21:18 | |
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Peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange of LocalBitcoins has continued to soar after the Zimbabwe government implemented a ban on foreign currency transactions. Zimbabwe: Bitcoin or Bust As reported by Quartz Africa, Peer-to-peer Bitcoin transactions in Zimbabwe recently reached a new high after President Emmerson Mnangagwa reinstated the Zimbabwe dollar.
2019-7-11 15:00 | |
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Large cap altcoins have appreciated nicely against the US Dollar in 2019. Their gains however, have paled in comparison to Bitcoin's bullish rally this year. But Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert said in a tweet Wednesday that he expects the market value of quality altcoins to catch up to the Bitcoin price boom sometime […] The post Barry Silbert Predicts Altcoin Price Explosion to Catch Bitcoin Rally appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-7-11 10:45 | |
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One of the textbook examples of hyperinflation is seeing a resurgence in demand for cryptocurrency. Bitcoin prices are soaring in Zimbabwe, as the government moves to limit trading in foreign currencies, Quartz reports.
2019-7-11 00:48 | |
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Bitcoin trading is booming in Zimbabwe. The government introduced a law banning the use of the U. S. dollar, forcing citizens to adopt a national currency instead. Zimbabwe's national currency stopped circulating in 2009 as part of an effort to stabilize the economy.
2019-7-11 00:45 | |
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After the country banned the settlement of transactions using foreign currency including the US dollar and the British pound, demand for bitcoin has soared as individuals look to fill the financial gaps left behind by the ban.
2019-7-11 00:05 | |
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Bitcoin proponents predict that China’s decision to create its own digital currency will ironically drive massive BTC adoption. China: Libra Dollar Peg Would Harm Sovereignty As various media outlets including South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported July 8, China’s central bank said it was already in the process of building the digital token.
2019-7-9 17:00 | |
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While speaking on the latest episode of Coinist Podcast, Willy Woo, on-chain analyst and partner at Adaptive Capital, shared his conviction of Bitcoin hitting trillion dollar market capitalization in the coming years.
2019-7-7 19:16 | |
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Bitcoin does not need to do anything to become a global reserve currency until Mr. Donald Trump is in command at the White House. That is what Jameson Lopp of CASA said on Friday in response to the President Trump’s call to manipulate the value of the US dollar.
2019-7-5 17:00 | |
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With Zimbabwe Dollars being brought back from the dead, citizens of the country are facing a lot of problems. Additionally, the fiat currency is facing rejection by citizens and it is getting problematic for Bitcoin enthusiasts in the country to buy BTC due to an enormous premium on it.
2019-7-3 17:30 | |
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A Zimbabwean government policy to ban the use of the US dollar and other currencies has been met with bitter opposition by the largest trade union in the country. The ongoing spat highlights the need for people to have the kind of free choice of currency that crypto assets can provide.
2019-6-27 00:00 | |
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TrustToken, a digital stablecoin provider, today announced it is launching its first stablecoin pegged to an Asian currency, the Hong Kong dollar. The new stablecoin, TrueHKD, is fully backed by Hong Kong dollars and is launching with the support of Hong Kong-licenced digital asset custody provider Legacy Trust. TrueHKD is now available for purchase in […]
2019-6-25 02:55 | |
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The world is still processing the specifics of Facebook‘s Libra digital currency, but even the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has realized it’s set to rub cryptocurrency purists the wrong way.
2019-6-20 12:38 | |
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By CCN Markets: Russia is continuing to explore the possibility of a gold-backed cryptocurrency for use as a cross-border settlement alternative with other countries. Under heavy sanctions from the US, the potential of a value-pegged cryptocurrency could help Russia escape from the usage of the Dollar as a currency standard.
2019-6-17 15:17 | |
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By CCN Markets: The Italian government is reportedly trying to be lenient on some forms of hard-to-tax savings, such as that held in safe deposit boxes. Bitcoin could be a viable investment for these retail investors.
2019-6-14 07:35 | |
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By CCN: Ethereum’s status as a legitimate transactional currency was confirmed once again this week – by none other than the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC’s recent lawsuit against Kik (KIN) details the particulars of the KIN token sale – the public phase of which was carried out against ETH, as opposed to the U.
2019-6-5 16:57 | |
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The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price.
2019-6-4 19:03 | |
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The Central Bank of the Bahamas will sign an official agreement tomorrow to develop its digital fiat currency system called “Project Sand Dollar”
2019-5-30 19:42 | |
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By CCN: In the past month, within a 30-day span, the bitcoin price has surged 60 percent against the U. S. dollar to about $8,500 as the valuation of the crypto market rose by $100 billion. Major crypto assets such as ethereum, litecoin, and EOS have seen gains above 100 percent year-to-date, with Binance Coin, the seventh most valuable crypto asset in the global market, recording a staggering 437 percent gain against the USD.
2019-5-29 11:08 | |
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Today’s Financial Times carried an interesting morsel this morning: Bitcoin (BTC) has proven to be a better store of value than the Argentine peso over the past 12 months. As a fiat currency, the Argentine peso – a victim of populist rule and economic mismanagement – hardly holds up to global reserve currencies.
2019-5-27 21:54 | |
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Bitcoin [BTC] might be over $10,000 from breaking its all-time-high [ATH] against the world’s premier fiat currency, the US Dollar [USD]. However, another prominent national currency is now left in the king coin’s wake.
2019-5-27 15:30 | |
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Tether, a stablecoin tied to the dollar that is meant to mediate the volatility of other cryptocurrencies, is partly backed by bitcoin. As detailed in court documents obtained by The Block, Tether admitted to using some of the cash reserves meant to back its stablecoin to purchase bitcoin, among other assets.
2019-5-22 23:02 | |
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History Shows Reserve Currencies Come & Go, So, Central Banks Stockpiling Gold, Is Bitcoin Next On The List? Central banks and foreign governments buying gold at the fastest pace in six years US Dollar’s days as a reserve currency are numbered Just a decade old, Digital gold – Bitcoin could emerge as a global reserve […]
2019-5-17 22:17 | |
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By CCN: Barry Silbert, the founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG), one of the most influential venture capital firms in the crypto space, has said that the current rally of bitcoin is different from 2017.
2019-5-18 16:45 | |
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PrimeXBT, a global multi-asset Bitcoin-based margin trading platform known for offering advanced trading tools, launched Forex, Commodities, and Indices. By adding over 18 of the world’s most popularly trading FX currency pairs, PrimeXBT has a unique value proposition for the global trading community, offering a robust variety of financial instruments and combining world-class forex currencies, with digital currencies, commodities, and indices on one platform.
2019-5-15 21:29 | |
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Most people in this world will come in touch with fiat currency in one way or another. Even so, the vast majority of those individuals hardly ever wonder about the aspects of physical money, especially where US Dollar bills are concerned.
2019-5-13 17:30 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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By CCN: The mighty US dollar appears to be one of the world’s safest currencies. This sense of security has blinded many from seeing that the greenback has lost tremendous value over the past 100 years, a fact that should send investors piling into a surging Bitcoin.
2019-5-13 20:00 | |
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China Could Push Bitcoin Up As Central Bank Tightens Its Capital Control On US Dollar According to the latest report by South China Morning Post, Chinese banks have increased their scrutiny of foreign currency withdrawals.
2019-5-8 20:34 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.
2019-5-1 01:22 | |
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SBI Holding’s new Japanese virtual currency exchange (SBIVC) achieved multi-million dollar profits – 360 million Japanese yen ($3.2 million)… The post Ripple’s Partner SBI Holdings Achieves Profitability On Its Crypto Exchange appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-4-30 18:09 | |
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New Stablecoin Launched By TrustToken, Pegged To AUD In a market that is filled with volatility, many institutional investors are becoming more comfortable with cryptocurrency through the use of stablecoins.
2019-4-25 23:44 | |
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A central bank digital currency (CBDC) would see central banks distribute digital money which could be redeemed for their respective domestic fiat currencies. In the case of an American CBDC, this would be the US dollar or in Russia, this would be a “Cryptoruble.
2019-4-6 12:00 | |
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Hyperinflation has become synonymous with Zimbabwe, and the African nation’s monetary system has been on a roller coaster for the past decade. Its national currency, the Zimbabwean dollar, lost so much value in 2015 that it was practically useless.
2019-4-5 00:17 | |
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Russian banks have adopted the Chinese CIPS payment system, and the competition from this cross-border platform and Ripple against SWIFT could ultimately lead to the US Dollars being deposed as the leading currency in the world.
2019-4-2 11:30 | |
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The dollar hasn't lost its king status but its influence is surely wearing off. De-dollarization has already been in action for quite some time now as the global geopolitical space is divided into two camps, one who supports US currency as a global reserve tool and other ones are those that have turned their backs […]
2019-4-1 22:51 | |
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US dollar is not just a currency, but also a weapon. The greenback accounts for 63 percent of the world’s reserves. It is large and liquid; it has a reputation for safety and the rule of law, and its backers have the willingness to run account deficits.
2019-3-31 14:00 | |
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Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
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Bankman-Fried may have been convicted, but The Bahamas appears to be dealing with the stigma of rolling out a red carpet for FTX.
"Every tether is backed by a reserve and their reserve is more than what is in circulation," said Gregory Pepin, Deltec Bank's deputy CEO.
Fintech company EMTECH is launching a compliance platform that helps central banks tackle compliance issues or safely test their central bank digital currencies.
A new “digital fiat currency” for the Bahamas could turn the island nation in to a crypto testbed.
The Securities Commission of the Bahamas is pushing for a new token framework to draw blockchain businesses to the island nation.