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Chinese party officials show interest in a manual on digital currencies as the government opens to blockchain technology
2020-1-13 15:09 | |
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With the announcement of the proposed Libra digital currency in 2019, even skeptical officials were forced to accept that crypto assets are here to stay. Stablecoins are seen as a priority for 2020, with national and global regulators publishing a variety of stablecoin research across the last 12 months.
2020-1-11 14:07 | |
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When it comes to Libra and the viability of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced it has serious doubts. RBA officials said in December last year they don’t believe cryptocurrencies will ever take the place of money issued by governments.
2020-1-9 20:58 | |
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United States' financial regulators on Wednesday, 4 December, appealed to federal and state officials to monitor risks from digital assets like Bitcoin. The panel consisted of Treasury Secretary SteveThe post United States' FSOC asks officials to monitor risks from digital assets appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-5 13:34 | |
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A panel of top U.S. financial regulators urged federal and state officials to monitor risks from digital assets like bitcoin.
2019-12-6 12:00 | |
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It has been rumored for some time now how some countries will go cashless. Swedish officials want to take this one step further by creating a national digital currency. More details regarding this potential venture were outlined by the Swedish Central Bank Governor this week, A Swedish Digital Currency Seems Viable This individual sees a […] The post A Swedish Digital Currency is Necessary, Central Bank Governor Claims appeared first on NullTX.
2019-11-23 02:00 | |
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A stimulated wargame held by previously high-ranking officials in the United States government has revealed what could be a North Korean missile takeover through China’s digital currency. The meeting held at Harvard Kennedy School projected a few years into the crypto space and highlighted the looming danger on the dollar’s dominance. The attendees stimulated a […]
2019-11-21 18:42 | |
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What if China’s digital currency undermined U.S. dominance of global finance? Former top Washington officials gamed out the scenarios Tuesday night.
2019-11-21 22:35 | |
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Despite expectations of a Chinese currency backed by the Central bank, officials denied creating the asset.
2019-11-14 18:40 | |
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The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is the first major central bank to hint at issuing its own digital currency. Consumers fear an end to the anonymity of cash, but officials say that their goal is ‘controllable anonymity’.
2019-11-13 09:32 | |
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Leaks within the Bank of Canada show officials are considering the development of a national cryptocurrency. As such, with interest in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on the rise, could it threaten bitcoin? National Cryptocurrency Mike Eppel, Senior Business Editor at 680 News, has revealed that Canada’s central bank is considering the development of a.
2019-10-18 11:16 | |
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Overprotective regulations could weaken the United States’ position in digital asset markets, according to one of the country’s leading securities officials. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, affectionately nicknamed ‘Crypto Mom,’ acknowledges that the regulator’s slow response to new technology could harm the nascent American blockchain sector.
2019-9-26 18:24 | |
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Chinese officials have confirmed that they have no timetable in place for the launch of their central bank digital currency (CBDC). This comes just weeks after a formal announcement by the PBoC that a launch is being scheduled by year-end.
2019-9-25 17:00 | |
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Recently, Bitcoin was in the spotlight after the Securities and Exchange Commision’s (SEC) Chairman, Jay Clayton, said that the digital gold would be required to be regulated, before it and a host of cryptocurrencies can be traded on a major exchange.
2019-9-20 12:30 | |
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Anti-agorism Congressional Representative Maxine Waters still has misgivings about Facebook’s proposed Libra digital currency, even after meeting with Swiss government officials to discuss the tech last week.
2019-8-30 11:45 | |
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The European Union is actively probing Facebook’s Libra digital currency project for competition law violations, mainstream media report. Facebook’s Libra Has ‘Potential Anti-Competitive Behavior’ According to Bloomberg, which cited official correspondence August 20, the European Commission is quizzing Libra participants via a dedicated questionnaire.
2019-8-21 14:00 | |
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Russia won’t officially legalize digital currencies in the near future, according to the conclusions of the participants of a “round table” dedicated to crypto regulation. Issuance of Anything Besides Ruble is Still Illegal On Thursday, July 25, a panel of Russian officials and experts discussed the regulation of cryptocurrency.
2019-7-26 18:00 | |
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Federal officials are set to approve congressional candidate Omar Reyes' plan to issue volunteers ERC-20 tokens, dubbed Omar2020, that will hold no monetary value but instead act as a "digital scoreboard" for campaign volunteers.
2019-7-11 01:10 | |
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Finance industry officials have hinted toward the development of a real-time payments system with instant settlement to be used by banks across the Eurozone. Traditional financial systems have come under pressure from cryptocurrencies and, more recently, Facebook’s new digital currency, as reported by Reuters, June 26, 2019.
2019-6-29 21:00 | |
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The best thing about Facebook’s proposed digital currency isn’t its BTF consensus algorithm, account-based data model or single Merkle tree structure. No, the greatest thing about Libra has to be the triggered reactions from politicians and bankers who can sense the rug being pulled from under their feet, threatening their hegemony and upending their world […] The post ”Stop Right Now!” – How Much Government Officials Already Hate Facebucks appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-6-27 06:55 | |
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Ten federal officials introduced a draft bill with the Chamber of Deputies in Brazil. If passed, public administrations would have to use emerging technologies to improve public services. As blockchain technology grows in its use cases, governments around the world are making sure to capitalize on it.
2019-6-13 14:00 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is having its first FinTech Forum at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D. C. , where they discussed a range of issues related to digital assets and distributed ledger technology (DLT).
2019-6-2 20:45 | |
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The world of digital assets and blockchain technology have been affected lot by the decisions made by regulatory authorities, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] being the main overwatch authority.
2019-6-2 22:30 | |
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The world of digital assets and blockchain technology have been affected lot by the decisions made by regulatory authorities, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] being the main overwatch authority.
2019-6-2 22:30 | |
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On the Bitfury blog, Executive Vice Chairman, George Kikvadze, delivers a use-case for the Bitcoin blockchain as a security layer. In an ever digital world, why do we still rely on paper documentation for our most important pieces of information? Many Paper Documents Already Function Digitally Kikvadze highlights the example of an international flight to illustrate the phenomena.
2019-5-22 22:00 | |
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged a government employee alleged to have misused government IT infrastructure for personal cryptomining operations, per a press release.
2019-5-22 18:47 | |
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Two Israeli citizens have been apprehended by law enforcement based on suspicions that they developed and ran a darknet marketplace for dealing illegal goods. The Israeli police announced via Twitter that it has collaborated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to arrest two locals who they believe managed the dark web marketplace, which used bitcoin to facilitate trades.
2019-5-8 18:42 | |
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Two Israeli citizens have been apprehended by law enforcement based on suspicions that they developed and ran a darknet marketplace for dealing illegal goods. The Israeli police announced via Twitter that it has collaborated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to arrest two locals who they believe managed the dark web marketplace, which used bitcoin to facilitate trades.
2019-5-8 18:42 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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Bitcoin [BTC] and other cryptocurrencies have been in the news because of positive developments as well as instances of fraudsters using the decentralized property of the digital assets to conduct nefarious activities.
2019-4-18 00:30 | |
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Lithuania, one of the Baltic tigers that has in past few years demonstrated it doesn’t shy away from new technologies and the digital economy, is preparing to introduce stricter rules for crypto companies.
2019-4-13 18:35 | |
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Government institutions in the United States of America have played a pivotal role in controlling the fate of cryptocurrencies and the digital asset market, in general. One of the main issues that lawmakers and government officials raise is the taxation on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum [ETH], which was discussed again in a recent […] The post US Congressmen urge IRS to provide clarity on cryptocurrency taxation laws in new joint letter appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-4-12 17:00 | |
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There is a little more clarity regarding the legal status of digital assets as two SEC officials have published a framework that helps in determining whether an asset qualifies as such on April 3, 2019.
2019-4-4 15:00 | |
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The San Juan Mercantile Bank & Trust International (SJMBT), a new bank in Puerto Rico catering to cryptocurrency traders, is now fully operational. SJMBT announced its receipt of all appropriate licensing from Puerto Rican regulatory officials to begin offering “fiat and digital asset custody and settlement services,” which are “to be integrated with the trading platforms offered by its affiliate, the San Juan Mercantile Exchange (SJMX).
2019-4-3 00:47 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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India has long been a nation that has taken a hardline stance towards cryptocurrencies. The risks associated with digital currencies such as money laundering and terrorism funding have long fueled the Indian government’s approach to dealing with digital assets.
2019-2-10 12:15 | |
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Binance’s cryptocurrency exchange platform has expanded into the European market with its entry into the Island of Jersey, a self-governing dependency of Great Britain.
2019-1-19 00:50 | |
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The Minister of Finance of South Africa, Tito Mboweni, explained in a letter on Jan. 2 that the region’s government has created a regulatory working group dedicated to cryptocurrencies. According to Mboweni, the working group includes representatives from multiple South African agencies and aims to produce a comprehensive regulatory response to the growing digital asset […] The post South African Officials Create Regulatory Working Group Dedicated to Cryptocurrencies appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-1-3 23:10 | |
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India could be making a U-turn on its directives for cryptocurrencies. Per reports from the New India Express, a second interdisciplinary committee set up by the Indian government is considering making cryptocurrencies legal in the country again but with more stringent rules.
2018-12-28 02:16 | |
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Bibox, a Chinese digital asset exchange, has acquired 100 percent of shares in Dex. top, a decentralized ERC20 exchange that also operates from Beijing. Officials refused to discuss the price of the deal, saying it was “private.
2018-12-17 20:00 | |
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South Korea will test out a new blockchain voting system this month, sources close to the developments have confirmed to Bitcoin Magazine. Developed by the country’s National Election Commission (NEC) and its Ministry of Science and ICT, the distributed ledger system is based on IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric and will be used to authenticate voters and save voting results in real time.
2018-12-4 21:41 | |
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Global leaders walked away from the latest G20 Summit with a rough game plan for crypto regulation. This year’s G20 Summit took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 30 to December 1.
2018-12-4 23:44 | |
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Having met the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2018, officials of VanEck, SolidX and Cboe BZX Exchange have met with the Commission again, in the latest attempt to convince the regulator to approve the nation's first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to an official presentation submitted to the SEC.
2018-12-1 01:17 | |
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India appears set to completely ban cryptocurrency operations within its borders, judging from the latest reports issued by government officials. Cryptocurrency Ban is Imminent On Tuesday (October 30), during a meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC), one of the agendas included digital currency.
2018-11-1 22:05 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a new office to engage with cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. Called the Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub), the division will make it easier for fintech startups to interact with the regulator on related issues and the legal implications of products before they launch them.
2018-10-19 01:51 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order issuing the stoppage of a recently planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III, who falsely advertised that the token sale was approved by the SEC.
2018-10-12 01:12 | |
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The world of digital currencies and the world of gambling seem to be joining up. The benefits offered by currencies such as the market leader, Bitcoin isn’t an oversight. Winning Poker Network is one of the companies that is benefitting from supporting from the world of crypto over the past few years.
2018-10-12 23:00 | |
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45 percent of 700 “global payments professionals” who took part in Ripple’s Blockchain in Payments Report are in the process of adopting the technology. Ripple: Adoption ‘Tipping Point’ Is ‘Fast Approaching’ That was according to the results of the first mass survey undertaken by the company which it unveiled at its Swell 2018 conference October 1 -2.
2018-10-3 18:00 | |
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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