2020-4-6 18:30 |
The Bank of Korea has historically been skeptical about CBDCs, but now it's having to keep up. origin »
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Bitcoin prices continue to build on recent gains as the market momentum strengthens. Meanwhile, the US central bank is struggling to keep up as economic clouds darken. Bitcoin prices have tapped another new 2020 high as market momentum continues to build and the rally keeps running.
2020-2-16 04:18 | |
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Last week, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic said inflation is stable and the US economy is close to full employment which means the Fed will be able to keep the interest rates where they are.
2020-2-7 20:49 | |
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According to a Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) deputy governor, the country needs to keep on doing research on what issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) would mean, even if a launch is not yet in the cards.
2020-1-31 20:23 | |
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Japan needs to keep researching a central bank digital currency, even if it won't launch one just yet, accord to the Bank of Japan's deputy governor.
2020-1-30 13:49 | |
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People’s Bank of China may be ready with the top-level rules for its hypothetical state-backed digital asset, but doubts are still surfacing over the project’s wider application. China Central Bank Currency Meets Fresh Skepticism The central bank has announced it will “continue its solid study on the digital currency and keep monitoring the latest development of digital currency initiatives around the world,”reported Ejinsight.
2020-1-15 18:30 | |
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As central bankers around the world get set for a prolonged period of monetary debasement, the 99% could look to Bitcoin for protection. A Decade of Monetary Debasement Looms The European Central Bank issued guidance at the end of last year that it would keep “the key ECB interest rates to remain at their present […] The post Bitcoin the Answer to Monetary Debasement? appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-1-7 09:23 | |
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The digital currency will allow anonymity to users… but only to an extent. Analysts are predicting the government-backed crypto will be out early next year. Blockchain efforts by the People’s Bank of China have ramped up in recent weeks.
2019-11-12 11:46 | |
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Bitcoin advocates call for a ban on gold as on-going investigations into Danske Bank reveal the lender offered gold bars to clients as an off-the-table service. This bypassed money laundering checks and was sold based on helping to keep the fortunes of wealthy clients hidden.
2019-11-12 19:54 | |
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Preparing for a change at the top, the European Central Bank has decided to keep interest rates on hold and at their all-time lows. Mario Draghi, who had his last monetary policy meeting as president of the ECB, is leaving after an eight-year term during which key rates were never raised.
2019-10-25 23:45 | |
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Coinspeaker Fed Official Confirms that the U. S. Central Bank Is Actively Considering Digital DollarThe Fed official says that if the U. S. has to keep its dominant position in global commerce, it needs to consider having a digital dollar that can be easily adopted.
2019-10-17 12:29 | |
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In a letter to Jerome Powell, two congressmen have asked the Federal Reserve chairman to consider developing a US-backed cryptocurrency. In short, they believe this is necessary to keep pace with the rest of the world.
2019-10-4 16:00 | |
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Mario Draghi, the outgoing president of the European Central Bank, mentioned the institution is open to Modern Monetary Theory—a fiscal and monetary framework that argues governments can keep printing money so long as inflation is in check.
2019-9-26 21:31 | |
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Four weeks ago, we conducted a substantial analysis of the KaratGold eco-system and published our results in our series “Do ICOs keep their Promises?”. While evaluating the project’s roadmap goals and actual accomplishments, we came to the conclusion that KaratCoin Bank and its associates took their roadmap very seriously and accomplished almost every single milestone […] The post Follow up on KaratGold: Do ICOs keep their promises? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-8-15 20:30 | |
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For nearly five years, China has been working on its cryptocurrency. For much of the time, the People’s Bank of China has chosen to keep this fact a secret. However, last year reports emerged and the country could not hide it anymore.
2019-8-12 15:32 | |
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In a report published by the Bank for International Settlements, the "bank for central banks" asked that regulators keep banks in mind when they update and create new financial rules as Facebook and other tech companies enter the payments and custody business.
2019-6-24 19:01 | |
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France’s central bank governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau has announced the creation of a Group of Seven central bank governors task force, which will work to produce a study outlining how central banks can regulate Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency to keep it in line with anti-money-laundering regulations and consumer protection rules.
2019-6-21 19:12 | |
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The Deputy Prime Minister of Italy has proposed a new tax on cash and other valuables held by citizens at banks. If actually imposed, the measure could drive people towards Bitcoin as a way to keep their savings safe from cash-strapped government ministers.
2019-6-13 02:00 | |
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Japan’s Ministry of Finance on June 9, 2019, published a joint statement from the various G20 finance ministers and central bank governors requesting the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to keep a close eye on risks surrounding crypto-assets.
2019-6-10 15:00 | |
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No, this isn’t a new Anderson Paak video. In a bizarre scene, footage shows a Bitcoin ATM spewing heaps of cash in a shopping centre nearby London’s Bond Street train station, while a security guard does their best to keep onlookers at bay.
2019-6-7 13:01 | |
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By CCN: Bits of Gold, Israel’s largest broker of bitcoin and Ethereum, can keep its bank account with the country’s biggest bank. That’s the decision from Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday.
2019-6-5 04:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bits of Gold has won a notable legal victory over an Israeli bank in its bid to keep access to banking services.
2019-6-4 11:00 | |
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“Sporadic” P2P Bitcoin trading is likely legal in China, a senior lawyer told the national press in unusually optimistic comments this week. Keep Bitcoin Exchange ‘Occasional’ in China Speaking to BJ News, Sa Xiao, Council Member at the Bank of China Law Research Association, argued that China’s current regulation of virtual property includes the right to trade it as the owner sees fit.
2019-5-22 12:00 | |
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A staffer at Bithumb’s bank partner has complained of having to work overtime because so many South Koreans just keep wanting to open a bitcoin account at the crypto exchange....
2019-5-21 17:14 | |
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Security tokens are coming to Bitcoin, courtesy of Blockstream. The Bitcoin and blockchain technology company announced on May 15, 2019, the final day of the Consensus 2019 conference, that Liquid Securities, a platform for issuing and managing security tokens on its Liquid sidechain, is ready to go live.
2019-5-16 19:14 | |
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Digiwills is a service based on a smart contract that aims to ensure that your digital assets are not lost or fall into the wrong hands. Thanks to the blockchain technology, with this innovative service it will be possible to safely leave all your digital assets.
2019-5-14 03:22 | |
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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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A week of success in Abra! The non-custodial wallet introduces real digital asset withdrawals and partners with Plaid, a fintech firm allowing bank withdrawals of cryptocurrencies. Abra Multi-Currency Wallet Now Supports Numerous United States Banks In a bid to keep rendering the best services to its clients, mobile bitcoin wallet and Investment app, Abra, has […]
2019-5-10 19:01 | |
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Netherlands' central bank will keep embracing blockchain, but the current findings are “not that positive,” according to the bank’s director of payments
2019-5-1 15:53 | |
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Changing the leadership in crypto firms is fairly common, whether to bring on individuals with substantial expertise or to keep the platform decentralized. Recently, Fidelity Digital Assets decided to add Chris Tyrer, who used to be an executive with the Barclays investment bank.
2019-5-1 04:17 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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On March 20, the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) unanimously decided to keep federal interest rates unchanged. Critics believe that the central bank’s policy of near-zero interest rates and quantitative easing (QE) has corrupted the U.
2019-3-24 23:50 | |
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Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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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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To keep the exchange liquid and honor withdrawal requests, Gerald Cotten has used personal funds during a time when QuadrigaCX funds were locked by a Canadian bank.
2019-3-14 14:24 | |
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As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
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Since 2011, mainstream media outlets, bank executives, economists, and other skeptics have gleefully proclaimed Bitcoin’s demise after every major correction from its all-time high. Bitcoin Will Keep Defying its Critics In the past ten years, Bitcoin has experienced five 85 percent corrections including the recent 14-month bear market.
2019-3-2 17:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges may still have a long way to go as it seems most people may still prefer banks to exchanges as means of saving their money as revealed by a recent Twitter poll by Ran Neuner, the host of CNBC Crypto Trader Show.
2019-2-26 15:16 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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Banks once refused to work with blockchain companies in Brazil. Now, BTG Pactual, Latin America’s largest standalone investment bank, is launching a security token of its own. A Wave of Change in Brazil There seems to be a wave of change happening in Brazil.
2019-2-22 14:00 | |
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The central bank of Lithuania has updated its position on cryptocurrencies and tokens issued through initial coin offerings. The regulator has revised the definition of these assets specifying the conditions under which financial institutions can operate with digital money and accept crypto payments.
2019-2-21 01:30 | |
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At Mt Pelerin, we believe that an evolution of banking is long overdue. With the global enthusiasm for FinTech and the ever growing success of blockchain technologies, we now have all the right tools to make this evolution happen.
2019-2-17 16:47 | |
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Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin Max has won in court the right to keep its checking account with Banco Santander. According to the presiding judge, the bank has not met its obligation to notify the crypto company of the closure in advance.
2019-2-14 23:10 | |
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A Brazilian crypto exchange has won a major battle for its survival recently. Bitcoin Max has been battling the Santander Bank in court in order to keep its accounts open and it looks like the exchange scored a major victory for the sector now.
2019-2-13 02:32 | |
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Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin Max finally won its battle to keep its Santander checking account open. The Battle with the Banks Is An Ongoing Saga Working with banks hasn’t been easy for cryptocurrency exchanges and blockchain startups in most parts of the world.
2019-2-12 22:00 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) has been facing a lot of problems that they soon will need to take action against to keep moving. The digital asset already has a limited supply, as determined when it was originally created.
2019-1-22 22:09 | |
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As we all know by now, one of the main benefits of using altcoins is the fact that they allow people to participate in online transactions without having to use an intermediary service such as a bank or credit card company.
2019-1-17 20:06 | |
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“The point is to get people to think about bitcoin, not spend it. I don’t think it’s good for that. It’s not meant to be used like cash,” Jeremy Gardner, founder of Ausum Ventures, advised me.
2019-1-15 17:50 | |
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Ripple Inc. has done well in focusing on lifting the banking industry from the impact of the last financial crisis which pushed banks into struggling to keep afloat. Liquidity challenge faced by banks mostly when it comes to interbank transactions is now a thing of the past with Ripple’s decentralized financial tools.
2019-1-10 21:44 | |
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Following the ruling by Chile’s supreme court that a bank can legally close accounts of a crypto exchange, the country’s Court of Defense of Free Competition reaffirmed that banks must reopen crypto exchanges’ accounts.
2019-1-5 07:00 | |
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The next two-year phase of Project Helvetia will see other financial institutions and types of transactions join the party.
The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) will begin a trial of its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital rial, in Kish Island starting in July. The central bank said on June 19 that banking network customers and tourists can use the digital rial wallet to make purchases and transfers between wallets via barcode without […] The post Iran to pilot CDBC in Kish Island starting July appeared first on CryptoSlate.
The world’s largest lender, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), recently published an in-depth analysis highlighting the rapid evolution and growing diversity in digital currencies, where it compared Bitcoin to gold and deemed Ethereum “digital oil.
Onchain Highlights DEFINITION: Bitcoin realized cap HODL waves are a bundle of all active supply age bands, aka HODL waves. Each colored band shows the percentage of Bitcoin in existence that was last moved within the period denoted in the legend.
Out of four recent crypto regulatory initiatives, the stablecoin bill has the highest chance of being passed before the U.S. presidential election, the report said.
The Qatar Central Bank (QCB) has announced the completion of the infrastructure development for its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) project, marking a significant milestone in its efforts to embrace digital financial transformations.
Israel's central bank is launching a challenge on the use of a central bank digital currency in payments as part of an "action plan for a possible issuance of the digital shekel."