Research reveals 98% of global economy exploring CBDC solutions

A new report reveals that 134 countries, covering 98% of the global economy, are exploring digital currencies, with 44 currently piloting CBDCs. Central bank digital currencies are gaining widespread attention, with nearly 99% of the global economy now focused on…

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Crazy bullish for Bitcoin: Federal Reserve still intends to spend trillions on the economy

Despite the roaring recovery in the S&P 500 (and Bitcoin for that matter), many facets of the global economy remain in recession, with dozens of millions unemployed, consumer spending down, and a global supply chain that has come to a screeching halt.

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Big Bankers Say Cryptocurrencies Do Not Pose a Threat to Global Financial Stability

The Financial Stability Board, a global inter-governmental body with over 20 member countries, has ruled that virtual currencies are not a threat to the world economy. The assessment could have an impact on India, whose central bank is part of the board.

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Digital Gold: A Game-Changer for Traditional and Digital Currencies

Disruption of the global monetary order Trust in currencies is vital for the global economy to function. In the past, when metal money was prevalent, people exchanged gold and silver coins because they were inherently valuable.

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Circle 2018 accomplishments and 2019 themes

As we lock focus on 2019 and building the next stage in our vision of an open and connected global digital economy, we first want to take stock of where we are and share a look back at 2018 with all our customers, employees, partners, investors and industry stakeholders. It

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JASON Qian from Petchains to make market platform which gives authenticity

Blockchain is a versatile technology that has been spanning the length and breadth of marketing precincts and revolutionizing their mechanisms. Having disrupted multiple operational systems ranging from governance to retail to healthcare, blockchain is now gearing up to revitalize the pet ecosystem and economy with ‘Petchains’.

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Ten Years Later, a Reflection on Bitcoin’s Genesis and Satoshi’s Timing

October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.

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Prominent Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Says Crypto Investors Will Not Have It Easy In 2019

The co-founder for Union Square Ventures, Fred Wilson published a blog post on New Year’s day titled “What is going to happen in 2019”. In that, he discussed varied topics such as bearish stock markets, a weakening economy, global financial issues, cryptocurrencies and more.

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Fred Wilson: Crypto No Safe Haven in 2019, Investors More Wary of Startup Sector

Wilson suggests that a range of events in the global economy will make investors more cautions of the startup sector

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Markets Update: Crypto Traders Enter the New Year With Uncertainty

On the first day of 2019, cryptocurrency prices have been steadily moving sideways in a consolidated pattern after taking some slight losses on New Year’s Eve. At the moment, the entire digital asset economy is worth about $126 billion and global trade volume has been thinning out over the last 48 hours.

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Markets Update: Cryptocurrency Gains Start Lifting Confidence Among Traders

The cryptocurrency economy has seen some improvement over the last 48 hours as many of the top digital assets are seeing gains between 5-15% this Saturday. The entire ecosystem of all the coins in existence has gained about $5 billion since the small correction on Christmas day.

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Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC/USD Slow Down Below $4,000, Up 19 Percent

Latest Bitcoin News The truth is that South Korea is famous for cryptocurrency and the opportunities presented by digital assets are like no other. Not only are they global but they can be an escape for stagnating local economy and hopeless politics.

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AURICOIN ICO

AURIcoin is a cryptocurrency that starts the new world economic order, and looks forward to correct the inefficiency in regards to the granting of credit. AURIcoin will serve mainly for the development, expansion, acceleration of the personal and industrial economy by granting Global Decentralized Credit, in a simple and direct manner without immediacy regarding the payment of the credit.

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Out of 460 Million Bitcoin Addresses only 37% are Economically Relevant, What does that Mean?

The bitcoin and cryptocurrency ecosystem is far and wide as it’s 24/7 global economy. Literally anyone in the world… The post Out of 460 Million Bitcoin Addresses only 37% are Economically Relevant, What does that Mean? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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Out of 460 Million Bitcoin Addresses Only 37% Are Economically Relevant — What Does That Mean?

The Bitcoin and cryptocurrency ecosystem is far and wide as it’s a 24/7 global economy. Literally anyone in the… The post Out of 460 Million Bitcoin Addresses Only 37% Are Economically Relevant — What Does That Mean? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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IOTA Talks About Supply Chain Challenges and Its DLT Solutions

The supply chains of the world still depend on paper documents and dated processes which impact the global economy and hamper international trade. The IOTA Foundation has defined solutions based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) that could help in solving these issues.

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In April, Paris Gathers the Global Blockchain and Crypto-asset Ecosystem for a Blockchain Week

CoinSpeaker In April, Paris Gathers the Global Blockchain and Crypto-asset Ecosystem for a Blockchain Week From April 13th to April 19th 2019, the Paris Blockchain Week will host numerous events under the joint High Patronage of the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance and the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs.

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На саммите в Стамбуле выступит известный биткоин-максималист Тим Дрейпер

20 февраля 2019 года в Стамбуле состоится Blockchain Economy Summit, на котором выступит известный биткоин-максималист, пионер венчурного бизнеса и консультант Дональда Трампа по регулированию криптовалют в Америке Тим Дрейпер.

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PARADISE TOKEN ICO

PDT Protocols provide developers the foundation to build decentralized applications (Dapps). Our Protocols are open source solutions for managing secure Booking/Payments. Global hotel industry total retail value in (2018)- 554.

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Markets Update: Bears Continue to Drag Cryptocurrency Prices Down

Digital asset prices have been dipping in value again after a few days of price consolidation. At the moment, the entire cryptocurrency economy is awfully close to dropping under the psychological $100 billion market valuation.

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Bitcoin Is The Subject Of A $1 Million Dollar Bet Between Nouriel Roubini And Anthony Pompliano

Nouriel Roubini And Anthony Pompliano Trading Jabs Again Nouriel Roubini, better known as Dr. Doom, has been challenged to bet against the cryptocurrency by Anthony Pompliano. Nouriel, an economist who shot to fame after his predictions about the American economy in 2006 which precipitated in the largest global financial meltdown in generations, has been actively […]

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WORBLI Launches 1 Billion Token ShareDrop to Bring Blockchain banking to the Masses

WORBLI, a decentralized fintech platform built on the EOS blockchain is determined to deliver the first-ever compliant financial services network (FSN). While distributed ledger technology, also known as blockchain technology has a lot of potentials to revolutionize the global economy, there are however many problems hampering its widespread adoption, including compliance, regulation and more.

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This Year's G20 Put an Emphasis on Cryptocurrency Regulation

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.

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Five reasons to go all in

Cyclical development of the market economy is beside the doubt. The nature of capitalism is such that periods of development alternate with periods of recession. Usually they are separated from each other for decades.

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Cura Network ICO

Cura Network is a global decentralized health system comprising of entities collaborating and sharing data with each other to promote, restore or maintain health. These entities are patients, specialists, providers, and third party app developers.

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G20 Summit: We Will Regulate Cryptocurrencies ‘In Line with FATF Standards’

G20 countries have agreed to regulate cryptocurrencies in line with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards at the second session of the summit held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ‘We will regulate crypto-assets for anti-money laundering’ On Saturday, a joint declaration was officially signed by all G20 nations, reports The Saudi Gazette.

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Report: Bitcoin Mining Doesn’t Fuel Climate Change, It Benefits the Global Economy

The majority of bitcoin miners — about 78 percent — use renewable energy to power their mining operations, while preventing surplus electricity from going to waste in countries such as China, a new study by Coinshares has revealed.

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Vocean, Starting the Trillion Crypto Bond Era

It’s been 10 years since the birth of bitcoin. At its peak last year, the crypto currency had a total market capitalization of $823. 8 billion and had become an independent economy that shouldn’t be ignored.

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Vocean, Starting the Trillion Crypto Bond Era

It’s been 10 years since the birth of bitcoin. At its peak last year, the cryptocurrency had a total market capitalization of $823. 8 billion and had become an independent economy that shouldn’t be ignored.

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OKCoin Adds the Argentine Peso as It Eyes Expansion Into Latin America

Despite a prolonged cryptocurrency bear market and regulatory uncertainties, OKCoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is expanding to Latin America launching a new exchange platform headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Institutionalization of cryptoassets

This paper provides an overview of the crypto market, introduces the emerging tokenized economy, and identifies the key challenges to the adoption of crypto in the global financial services ecosystem. The paper also introduces KPMG

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Addressing the Challenges of Satellite Communication

It is the era of the global information society, which is primarily centred on strong global information infrastructure. Nations across the world are encouraging the development of info-communications technologies.

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aelf and Dubai’s Connect Global Strategies partner for business blockchain adoption

CryptoNinjas aelf, a multi-chain network, and blockchain for business, announced today its entrance into the emerging Middle East blockchain economy through its new strategic partnership with the Dubai-based consultancy, Connect Global Strategies.

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Huobi CEO and COO Meet the Winklevoss Twins to Discuss Global Synergy

The CEO of the Huobi Group, Leon Li went to meet the co-founders of Gemini exchange along with COO Robin Zhu. The meeting between the four on Wednesday was designed to talk about stablecoins, creating a flatter global economy and bridging the crypto communities of the west and east.

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China’s president wants to make the internet ‘fairer’ — for China

China’s stranglehold on its citizens’ internet usage is notorious, and now the officials in charge of it are gathered at China’s main internet conference in Wuzhen. Today, President Xi Jinping called for greater global cooperation in making the internet fairer in a speech that was read on his behalf at the conference, Reuters reports.

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Blockchain is Airdropping $125M in Stellar Lumens to Its Wallet Users

Blockchain will be airdropping approximately $125 million worth of Stellar lumens to its users, in conjunction with the Stellar Development Foundation. This marks the largest airdrop in cryptocurrency history.

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Machine Xchange Coin (MXC): Blockchain IoT Global Data Network?

What Is Machine Xchange Coin? Machine Xchange Coin (MXC) is a decentralized technological “Data Trade Network” specifically designed for the Token economy. The blockchain based platform aims at revolutionizing the functions of lending, sending, and spending.

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Global Digital Finance Release Industry Code of Conduct to Establish Global Crypto Standards

On Wednesday, October 31, Global Digital Finance released the cryptocurrency industry Code of Conduct that will help to standardize and increase adoption of the crypto economy. It also noted that leading crypto companies, Circle, Coinbase, ConsenSys, R3, Diginex, Hogan Lovells and DLA Piper have joined the GDF as Founding Members of the New York, Hong […] Global Digital Finance Release Industry Code of Conduct to Establish Global Crypto Standards was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.

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Apla ICO

Apla blockchain is a secure, simple and compliant blockchain infrastructure for a fastgrowing global collaborative economy segment. SMEs will benefit from reducing operational costs and go-to-market time, fundraising solutions at an early development stage, automation of business processes, integrated settlement system, AML/CFT compliant infrastructure, trustless cooperation, business scalability and global reach of their products and services to end customers.

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Op Ed: Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Is Neither Frivolous Nor Excessive

As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency.

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Debunking Dr. Doom: Building a New Global Economy on a “Glorified Spreadsheet”

This rebuttal to Dr. Doom, AKA Nouriel Roubini, was written by Thomas Schouten, the Head of Marketing at Lisk.  Schouten holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master of Science in Strategic Entrepreneurship from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Parity Founder Demonstrates Ease of Creating a DLT System, Launches a Blockchain Within Minutes

While distributed ledger technology (DLT) undoubtedly has the potentials to revolutionize nearly all sectors of the global economy, many startups still find it an arduous task creating and deploying their blockchain networks.

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Impact of Cryptocurrency in Global Economy Could Be Motivation for New Financial Order

Impact of Cryptocurrency in Global Economy Could Be Motivation for New Financial Order “Money is not going to be the same forever and ever. ” Those are the words of Marcus Swanepoel from a discussion with Express.

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IPSX Launches Global IP Address Marketplace to Solve a Billion Dollar Problem

The sharing economy is not limited to physical assets.

The post IPSX Launches Global IP Address Marketplace to Solve a Billion Dollar Problem appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Minting the Future of Cryptocurrencies - [BTC Media Sponsor]

In 2009, Bitcoin was ushered in as an alternative to fiat currency, promising to revolutionize the future of peer-to-peer spending. Since then, it has spawned scores of other cryptocurrencies with various value propositions and potential.

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Era Swap Blockchain-powered P2P Global Marketplace to Revolutionize the Digital Sharing Economy

Era Swap distributed ledger technology startup is launching its massive peer-to-peer marketplace in its bid to transform the freelancer sharing economy. The social community startup is looking to create an extensive market for Time of service, Education and cryptos.

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IMF, World Bank Set Framework Around Fintech Advances

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have weighed in on sovereign considerations and global implications of blockchain and other financial services technologies.

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Blockchain-Based P2P Global Marketplace Era Swap to Establish a Valuable Ecosystem for the Digital Sharing Economy

Blockchain startup Era Swap introduces a robust peer-to-peer (p2p) marketplace to revitalize the freelancer sharing economy. The post Blockchain-Based P2P Global Marketplace Era Swap to Establish a Valuable Ecosystem for the Digital Sharing Economy appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Blockchain-Based P2P Global Marketplace Era Swap to Establish a Valuable Ecosystem for the Digital Sharing Economy

Bitcoin Press Release – Blockchain startup Era Swap introduces a robust peer-to-peer (p2p) marketplace to revitalize the freelancer sharing economy. October 10th, 2018, Malta – Era Swap is a social community platform that intends to be a valuable market for Time of services, Education and Crypto Assets.

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