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Investors who have invested money in stablecoins stand a higher chance of losing the money because these projects are neither transparent and regulated, nor decentralized as claimed, says United States Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
2021-12-15 20:25 | |
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The international Financial Action Task Force announced it sees high risks of using stablecoins in money laundering and terrorist financing. FATF calls for stronger industry regulation.
2020-7-12 14:31 | |
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“The world of fiat money is in flux, and innovation will transform the landscape of banking and money. You can bet your bottom dollar on it,” read the IMF's latest blog “From Stablecoins to Central Bank Digital Currencies.
2019-9-26 20:04 | |
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Swiss central bank official Thomas Jordan says crypto isn’t sound money but stablecoins have the potential to see widespread adoption. Crypto Won’t See Mainstream Adoption Speaking during a recent event at the University of Basel, Jordan — chairman of the governing board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), argued against the value proposition of crypto as currencies.
2019-9-19 17:00 | |
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A new IMF paper has said that bank and cash deposits could be kicked to the curb by digital currencies and especially stablecoins. The post IMF: Stablecoins Could Surpass Traditional Form of Money appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-7-17 12:41 | |
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In the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) newly published FinTech note titled “The Rise of Digital Money," the IMF states that banks will face "tough competition" and may even see their services surpassed by tech firms issuing digital money and stablecoins.
2019-7-16 18:53 | |
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A new IMF paper suggests that cash and bank deposits could be left behind as digital money and fiat-pegged cryptos see greater adoption.
2019-7-16 15:31 | |
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Given the market share stablecoins have accumulated in the cryptocurrency industry today, it is evident this form of money cannot be overlooked. When it comes to converting these stablecoins to traditional money, there are still plenty of hurdles to overcome.
2019-7-10 23:00 | |
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Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, who has previously advocated for a full ban on cryptocurrency, doesn’t like Facebook’s Libra plans either. Stablecoins might be a friendlier option to someone like Stiglitz, who believes crypto lacks all the properties of sound money.
2019-7-3 18:28 | |
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“Libra is not a cryptocurrency. Libra will destroy all stablecoins, but who gives a f*ck. I shed no tears for all those projects that somehow believed there was value in an unheard-of sponsor creating a fiat money market fund that rode on a blockchain,” remarked Arthur Hayes in this month’s BitMEX Crypto Trader Digest.
2019-6-29 22:30 | |
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The internet and financial regulators were spewing hot takes on Libra after Facebook released its white paper. With cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and the future of money on everyone's mind, what can we expect from fiat and digital currency in the future?
2019-6-22 23:53 | |
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The article is penned by Eduardo Argueta. Eduardo Argueta currently acts as a Head of Communications in Platinum Q DAO Engineering. He is a skilled writer who first got into blockchain and cryptocurrencies back in 2016 as a means to send money abroad.
2019-5-15 12:58 | |
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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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CryptoNinjas Bitspark, a blockchain powered money transfer ecosystem, has announced the live launch of the beta version of its new web platform enabling people to easily deposit cash, cryptocurrency or via bank transfer and exchange money using stablecoins in eight major national fiat currencies (USD, GBP, SGD,.
2019-5-3 07:53 | |
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The Bitfinex/Tether episode has eroded a lot of the trust of the community in stablecoins. Tether, which used to have its assets backed 1:1 with USD in order to make prices stable, used some of its funds to loan money to Bitfinex, which shares the same owners. The episode was a scandal in the industry. […]
2019-5-3 00:12 | |
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Stablecoins are coming to the Stellar blockchain. Wirex, a UK-regulated digital money provider, has announced today it will be launching 26 fiat-backed stablecoins on the XLM platform, in collaboration with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF).
2019-4-25 15:08 | |
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Coin360 CEO Evan Ropp claims that IEOs, stablecoins and institutional money will define the industry in 2019
2019-4-20 21:31 | |
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If you ask its official website, Bram Cohen’s Chia project is the first “enterprise” digital currency. Forget Ripple, Stellar, or the host of stablecoins launched over the past couple years. It’s Chia – the “green” crypto project developed in answer to the question of Bitcoin’s high resource usage, which is the first enterprise-grade cryptocurrency.
2019-4-3 11:30 | |
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Stablecoins show hardly any volatility compared to Bitcoin and altcoins, many are hoping that they will be able to bridge new crypto economy and regular fiat money
2019-3-27 16:15 | |
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An IBM executive is unfazed by the current market realities, saying he sees Bitcoin (BTC) reaching a value of $1 million as a present possibility. Jesse Lund, vice president of Blockchain and Digital Currencies at IBM, shared his predictions at the IBM Think 2019 Conference, which took place February 12–15, 2019.
2019-2-23 00:42 | |
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While the stablecoin market has made significant strides in the past year, there is still much work and progress to be done in order for these to reach their full potential, according to a new report.
2019-2-21 06:09 | |
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A new report by cryptocurrency and blockchain advisor, George Samman, titled ‘The State of Stablecoins 2019,’ details the history of money and makes an argument for why stablecoins represent the natural evolution of where money will head next.
2019-2-21 00:30 | |
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Bitcoin is over $3900 globally, though many exchanges still have it trading closer to $3850. Ethereum’s broken beyond $140, might take $150 before the day is through. Bitcoin Cash is right behind it.
2019-2-19 02:35 | |
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Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has completed a $30 million Series B round led by American VC firm Accel and Benchmark, who led the startup's Series A funding in April 2018.
2019-2-15 19:41 | |
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Bitspark is a money-transfer platform that functions within Hong Kong’s borders. Keeping up with their goals of using stablecoins primarily for value transfers, they have launched a new stablecoin that is directly connected to the Hong Kong Dollar (HKD).
2019-1-29 21:07 | |
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CryptoNinjas Bitspark, a cryptocurrency money transfer platform, has launched Sparkdex. HKD – the first market-ready cryptocurrency pegged to the Hong Kong Dollar (HKD). “Until now, US Dollar stablecoins have dominated the market but there are other.
2019-1-29 11:55 | |
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A memo from the Texas Department of Banking considers treating stablecoins as money under the Texas Money Services Act
2019-1-5 03:56 | |
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A new memo by the Texas Department of Banking notes that stablecoins may fall under the state's definition of "money" and therefore would be subject to money transmission laws.
2019-1-5 01:35 | |
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On December 4, 2018, our CEO, David Bailey, made an exciting announcement: Bitcoin Magazine would be returning to its roots and shifting its focus to Bitcoin-related stories only.
2019-1-3 07:24 | |
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Stablecoins are currently the fastest growing sector of the cryptocurrency market, worth $186 billion; these constitute cryptocurrencies whose values are pegged to real life commodities like gold or the US dollar.
2018-12-2 13:15 | |
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Coinbase has led the digital currency revolution in the US from the front and has grown beyond the American borders to provide services to a global audience. The company is working on several other services too, specifically dedicated to bringing more institutional investment in the space.
2018-11-30 22:04 | |
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Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has released an independent, third-party attestation of its bank account, and according to a top 5 public accounting firm, the stablecoin has its funds in order.
2018-11-22 22:05 | |
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Stablecoins have been a hot topic in 2018, and many different companies are creating cryptocurrencies for P2P payments. The USDX Wallet payment system stands out from these overly complicated and undeveloped projects by delivering rapid and secure transactions with the ease of sending a text.
2018-11-20 21:30 | |
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“Go for the Jugular” is the advice George Soros gave to his team during his famous attack on the British pound for a profit of $1 billion on so-called Black Wednesday in 1992.
2018-11-15 18:50 | |
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Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has added the Vietnamese Dong (VND) on its Customer-to-Customer (C2C) trading system, enabling Vietnamese customers to exchange their fiat currency for tokens on the platform.
2018-11-14 21:54 | |
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Galaxy Capital–backed BlockFiis taking its loan services to the global stage. According to a statement shared with Bitcoin Magazine, the platform is expanding its services to an international audience.
2018-10-31 17:17 | |
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Companies and exchanges are jumping on the stablecoin bandwagon — but just how promising is this concept and doesn’t it go completely against everything Bitcoin stands for? Dollar-Pegged Money is Nothing New Disneyland’s first president, Jack Lindquist, introduced the in-house currency called Disney Dollars in 1987.
2018-10-27 03:00 | |
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Utility billing and payment services provider Novatti is launching a new Australian dollar (AUD)-backed stablecoin known as the Novatti AUD Utility Token on the Stellar Network.
2018-10-25 20:58 | |
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Stablecoins are all the rage, and everyone’s trying to become the next Tether. Although these tokens have their value fixed, that doesn’t stop people from trying to get money out of them: Uphold lets users lend out their tokens for (potentially) better interest than a savings account, and Gemini dollars reached 120 cents on some exchanges.
2018-10-24 16:32 | |
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As a company looking to give users full control over their digital rights, Blockstack is piloting a new app mining program that encourages designers to create new applications directly on Blockstack’s platform and earn rewards in bitcoin.
2018-10-24 00:30 | |
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Before discussing specific stablecoin names, it is important to understand the three types of stablecoins that currently exist: centralized IOU stablecoins, crypto-collateralized stablecoins, and non-collateralized stablecoins.
2018-10-22 16:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency, Tether (USDT), Stablecoins–Earlier in the week EWN reported on comments by long-time Bitcoin bull and overall cryptocurrency proponent Mike Novogratz, when he expressed interest in the future of stablecoins as a viable source of digital asset.
2018-10-21 04:43 | |
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Global professional services firm PwC has partnered with decentralized lending platform Cred to boost trust in the cryptocurrency space and bring in more traders by advancing stablecoin technology.
2018-10-8 21:30 | |
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Global professional services firm PwC has partnered with decentralized lending platform Cred to boost trust in the cryptocurrency space and bring in more traders by advancing stablecoin technology.
2018-10-10 21:30 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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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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Boston-based cryptocurrency finance firm Circle has just joined the multitudes of other crypto exchange platforms now issuing and trading their own stablecoins. As of September 26, 2018, dollar-pegged USDC is now trading on Poloniex, the crypto-to-crypto exchange Circle acquired in February 2018, and on Circle Trade, the company’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform.
2018-9-27 20:50 | |
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Welcome to a new week crammed with new ways of thinking about Bitcoin and its fellow cryptocurrencies. To kick things off, today’s edition of The Daily details three big-hitting topics: Is it time to find a more accurate metric than market cap for measuring cryptocurrencies? Why are venture capital funds so enamored with stablecoins right […] The post The Daily: Rethinking Bitcoin’s Market Cap, ICOs Printing Money appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-9-24 11:10 | |
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Grandshores Technology Group, a Hong Kong–listed investment holding company, is seeking to raise around $12. 7 million through a digital token fund, according to reports from the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
2018-9-19 00:42 | |
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Stablecoin platform Bridge has received a conditional banking charter from the United States Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. “Once fully approved, the charter will enable Bridge to operate stablecoin products and services under direct federal oversight,” Bridge said…
Bridge received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a federally chartered national trust bank.
Morph expands USDT0 settlement on Bitget to enhance the liquidity, seamless deposits and withdrawals along with scalable Layer 2 transactions for global users.
German central bank president Joachim Nagel said he sees “merit in euro-denominated stablecoins,” and argues that they could serve as a cheaper and more efficient means for cross-border payments by both firms and individuals. During his speech at the New…
After expanding to USDAI, PYUSD’s market supply increased by $150 million, thanks to the integration that enables AI builders access liquidity via PYUSD.
Crypto is increasingly becoming a central financial channel for human trafficking networks, enabling operators to move funds quickly across borders without relying on traditional banking systems. A new report from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis shows that transaction flows linked to suspected trafficking services surged in 2025, highlighting how digital assets are now embedded in criminal […]