2019-9-19 11:01 |
Central banks can benefit from digital currencies but they don’t necessarily need a blockchain, says Chile’s top central banker
origin »2019-9-19 11:01 |
Central banks can benefit from digital currencies but they don’t necessarily need a blockchain, says Chile’s top central banker
origin »Despite being worried about consumer protection, the central banker is confident that Bitcoin is no threat to financial stability.
2021-1-29 16:36 | |
After grilling Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Capitol Hill about his agency’s response to Facebook's Libra "cryptocurrency," US Representative Maxine Waters finished her questioning by asking the central banker what he would do if Donald Trump “fired” him.
2019-7-10 18:35 | |
A Swiss central banker has suggested that Facebook's cryptocurrency project, Libra, is not ruffling any feathers with the regulator, Reuters reports.
2019-6-25 15:00 | |
Burkhard Balz, a German politician who is now member of the board of the German central bank, Bundesbank, has argued blockchain tech really adds value when tokenizing real assets. “This...
2019-6-2 16:23 | |
By CCN: Russia is reportedly considering the implementation of a gold-backed cryptocurrency, according to Russian news outlet Tass. Immutability and censorship-resistance are useful for governments in certain instances, such as conducting international trade in the face of sanctions.
2019-5-24 22:55 | |
By CCN: A student asked European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi about his stance on Bitcoin. Draghi told the student that cryptocurrencies are not currencies, but “highly risky” assets.
2019-5-8 22:29 | |
The Dutch central bank developed and evaluated four distributed ledger technology (DLT) prototypes in three years, but so far blockchain hasn’t lived up to the hype, The Banker reports. In fact, the only use-case it can easily envision is cross-border payments, after it discovered that markets with efficient payment systems that exist (such as Nordic countries and the Netherlands) don’t really benefit from blockchain.
2019-5-1 17:15 | |
The head of VTB Bank, a major Russian financial institution that sees the government as its majority shareholder, has compared bitcoin mining with counterfeiting. Andrei Kostin, who serves as the president and the chairman of the management board of VTB Bank, said Monday during an event that any person who prints digital money to replace Russian Ruble was counterfeiting the state-backed fiat.
2019-2-6 10:15 | |
It is pretty obvious why central and commercial banks are not fond of decentralized forms of finance. Giving financial control to the people takes it away from them, along with their fat profits and big banker boss bonuses.
2019-1-22 10:24 | |
An excessive number of regulatory agencies are interfering with the prospects of successful development of cryptocurrencies in Ukraine, according to a high-ranking representative of the country’s central bank.
2019-1-9 06:10 | |
Named after the subatomic particle that can pass right through the entire planet without being detected, neutrino is meant to be a lightweight wallet with enhanced privacy features. And Bchd developers are now bringing it over to the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem in beta mode.
2018-11-20 17:15 | |
Central bankers have been talking about issuing their own digital coins ever since they first saw the appeal that bitcoin holds for many people. However, the latest indications point to it being a very long time until we will see national crypto assets coming from any stable economies.
2018-11-19 19:00 | |
A top-level executive from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) revealed that the country’s central bank doesn’t plan to issue a digital currency. The BOJ justifies this decision by identifying major obstacles which prevent their further widespread adoption.
2018-10-24 21:00 | |
Chart for XRP/BTC (1W) Ripple (XRP) has defended its 5 Week EMA. This is a clear message to all the critics out there calling Ripple (XRP)’s rally a pump and dump. RSI for the above weekly chart for XRP/BTC does seem to have neared the overbought range.
2018-10-9 18:30 | |
Damien Pang, head of the Technology Infrastructure Office at Singapore's central bank talks about the authority's insight on DTL and digital tokens.
2018-9-20 06:06 | |
Damien Pang, head of the Technology Infrastructure Office at Singapore's central bank talks about the authority's insight on DTL and digital tokens.
2018-9-19 06:06 | |
A senior Australia central bank official who called Bitcoin “fascinating” but its blockchain “inefficient” has come under fire for plagiarism and spreading incorrect information about cryptocurrency.
2018-6-28 10:00 | |
Another senior Swiss central banker has noted the diminishing enthusiasm of governments to mint digital coins. Todd Gordon, founder of Tradinganalysis.com, is one of those analysts who believe the bottom line is that Bitcoin will eventually recover, by early 2019 to be precise. “I did expect Bitcoin to drop, I thought for a long time
2018-6-23 15:33 | |
In today’s Bitcoin in Brief we mention some optimistic mid to long term predictions for crypto markets. And while decentralized currencies are hurting in a bearish month, the prospects for state-issued virtual money look even dimmer.
2018-6-23 14:35 | |