2022-5-21 18:57 |
Conspiracy theories won’t save you from financial reality, says CoinDesk's chief insights columnist. origin »
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Previous studies about Bitcoin acceptance claim a significant gender gap problem, but a new research by Spiral sheds light on a shifting reality that might turn into a more hopeful future for equal financial literacy.
2022-5-4 02:59 | |
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A decade ago, the mass use of cryptocurrency sounded like a distant reality from a science fiction film. Only a handful of people believed in the financial revolution of cryptocurrencies. Many of the early Bitcoin investors sold their coins for dirt cheap in the early days as they never believed they would be accepted as a medium of transaction.
2022-4-20 13:44 | |
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In our recent survey of over 1,600 financial leaders across 22 countries, we uncovered some pretty astounding insights: A whopping 85% of payment leaders at financial institutions globally think their country will launch a digital currency in the next four years.
2022-4-7 19:31 | |
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We recently surveyed over 1,600 financial leaders across 22 countries and discovered that 37% of senior financial institution executives around the globe consider both “financial inclusion” and “greater access to credit” as the largest potential breakthroughs for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).
2022-3-31 23:07 | |
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Digitization and COVID-19 Put Underserved Market Remittances Under Pressure The term gray market might conjure up images of nefarious players exchanging cash in shadowy alleys. In reality, gray markets have become an unfortunate necessity for those that lack the financial resources to operate within the traditional payment system.
2022-1-12 02:05 | |
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An ultimate decentralized exchange that enables financial ideas to turn to reality. Entrepreneurs are constantly looking for open source liquidity and decentralized financial infrastructure protocThe post CODI Finance - Complete DeFi ecosystem is finishing it’s private sale round appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-11-8 08:00 | |
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After weeks of speculation and anticipation, Bitcoin ETF is finally a reality for the American financial markets. The first Bitcoin ETF was proposed back in 2013 and after multiple rejections over theThe post Now that futures ETF is a reality, does the future look any different for Bitcoin appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-10-18 14:00 | |
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Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, envisioned digital assets as an anonymous financial instrument. Unfortunately, in reality, cryptocurrency transactions are not entirely confidential. Many tools and services can be used to de-anonymize the owners of digital assets.
2021-7-30 09:31 | |
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Cryptocurrencies have become a reality, and there is no coming back to the pre-Bitcoin world. Progress is about combining the new world with the old one, technologically and ideologically. Tenset built bridges in the financial sector between cryptocurrencies and classic markets, to accelerate this transition.
2021-7-19 23:32 | |
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Upon realization of the idea of liberty, it is immediately thrust into reality, never to be forgotten by those having experienced it.
2021-6-20 22:00 | |
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Despite the skepticism of many analysts and even senior bankers, cryptocurrencies are here to stay. They have become a reality that everyone should accept. The blockchain, upon which many cryptocurrencies are based, is built on the financial technology (Fintech) of blockchain.
2021-4-27 14:00 | |
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SightCall, a San Francisco-based augmented reality (AR)-enabled visual assistance platform, today announced the appointment Dipak Joshi as the company’s first Group Chief Financial Officer. His...
2021-1-19 14:06 | |
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Financial incumbents may face a harsh reality soon, as a commercial real estate crisis has threatened the profits from America’s largest banks. A number of reports show that banks with a large amount of commercial real estate in their portfolios may see a significant fallout in the next few months.
2020-11-17 04:00 | |
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A top executive at the IMF believes that the private sector could play a pivotal role in the development and integration of CBDC’s with existing financial ecosystems. Tobias Adrian, a Monetary and Capital Markets director & financial counselor at the IMF, shared these sentiments during the R3 sponsored “Building CBDC: A Race To Reality” conference […]
2020-7-27 22:31 | |
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Blockchain has come a long way from being just the underlying technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to a whole global technological distributed ledger. When Bitcoin first appeared on the financial scene, it was tagged by many as something used by criminals and therefore its backbone then, the blockchain network was also lilted to something […]
2020-5-21 11:38 | |
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The global financial market has been unable to deal with the health crisis around the world. The Coronavirus pandemic has become an inevitable reality at the moment, with the traditional and digitaThe post Bitcoin's 'risk-factor' could be appealing amidst bonds market crash appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-3-28 19:30 | |
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U. S. financial markets have completely decoupled from reality. The jobless claims posted today broke all records and exceeded all expectations, but stocks rallied. Expectations for today’s jobless claims numbers were 1.
2020-3-27 22:15 | |
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Financial markets around the world are going through a whirlwind of emotions and sentiments right now. Sadly, a sense of stability is not one of them. The same could be said for the digital asset iThe post No, Bitcoin is not under threat; not unless $2000 becomes a reality appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-3-17 16:57 | |
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After announcing its support for a state-backed digital asset back in August, China's proposed CBDC is edging closer to becoming a reality and becoming a part of the country's financial ecosystem.
2019-12-9 13:00 | |
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Government-regulated ether (ETH) futures trading could soon be a reality as the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman, Heath Tarbert, dubbed the smart-contract cryptocurrency a commodity, essentially pulling it under the jurisdiction of the financial regulator.
2019-10-11 19:00 | |
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Blockchains like Ethereum‘s are often pitched as self-sovereign money networks that operate independently of states, financial institutions, and corporations — but recent research shows this might not be reality.
2019-9-24 20:15 | |
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Argentina, long a cornerstone economy for Latin America, and the world’s eighth-largest country, has been plagued by debt and diminished financial opportunities. While this troubling reality plays out in different ways, one of the most obvious ramifications is the country’s inflation rate, which exceeded 50 percent in August 2019.
2019-9-20 11:58 | |
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Today, we are thrilled to announce Dr. Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago, and Kamal Quadir, CEO of bKash as our 2019 Swell keynote speakers.
2019-8-20 01:16 | |
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Most thought that trader Michael Burry was crazy when he started shorting stocks in 2008. But he felt that the market was overheated and the prices would eventually drop. His intuition was right – and it made him $100 million richer.
2019-8-16 22:47 | |
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Although it has its peculiarities, the Chinese banking sector now faces similar challenges to the west’s financial system. Dozens of small banks have been experiencing liquidity difficulties in the past few months.
2019-8-1 13:50 | |
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Many are still attributing the US Treasury Secretary’s comments on Libra and bitcoin to its rapid decline over the past few days. In reality, they may have sparked the selloff but market correction has been overdue for some time.
2019-7-17 14:00 | |
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A survey of fund managers, conducted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, found pessimism at a level not seen since the last financial crisis. The on-going trade war and the expectation of an incoming global recession are driving fears of an economic collapse, which may strengthen the image of bitcoin as an uncorrelated asset.
2019-6-19 19:23 | |
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The entry of mainstream companies into the world of cryptocurrencies has been seen as a marker for the mass adoption of digital assets. With the advent of Facebook’s GlobalCoin that has become a reality as the social media giant partnered with several tech giants like Vodafone and Spotify to ensure its integration into the financial […] The post Anthony Pompliano vs Peter Schiff: Facebook’s GlobalCoin takes centre stage as Twitter blows up with debates appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-6-15 19:00 | |
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By CCN: Kenetic Capital co-founder and managing partner Jehan Chu has said on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia” that he sees the bitcoin price surging to $30,000 by the year’s end. His projection of the bitcoin price comes after major financial institutions and technology conglomerates in the likes of Rakuten, Fidelity, Etrade, and TD Ameritrade have started to build services and infrastructure around the crypto asset market, with JPMorgan going as far as to develop its own digital asset.
2019-5-30 10:39 | |
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The Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) has shut down cryptomixing site Bestmixer. io. According to local media, Dutch authorities moved to shut down the site on May 22, 2019, as part of a joint operation with police agencies from several European nations, including France, Latvia and Luxembourg.
2019-5-22 21:13 | |
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Modern slavery is unfortunately still part of our global reality, with more than 40 million people believed to be victims of human trafficking around the world. It’s up to governments, organizations, and society as a whole to battle this evil – and as we heard at TNW2019 Conference, data science can help.
2019-5-10 14:27 | |
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While details have remained scarce, Facebook’s plans to create its own cryptocurrency have not exactly been secret. But with its latest announcement, Facebook looks to be developing its own stablecoin-backed payment system, The Wall Street Journal reports.
2019-5-3 11:00 | |
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The mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies has been the main aim of proponents and organizations working in the world of digital assets. This goal seems to be closer to being a reality as financial mainstays have taken an interest in digital assets, either by dabbling in the technology or by fully embracing the concept by adding […] The post Bitcoin [BTC], Ethereum [ETH] trading reportedly in the works at eTrade after TD Ameritrade news appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-4-27 11:00 | |
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Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.
2019-4-23 17:42 | |
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The political spectrum is usually divided into four main categories: libertarian left, authoritarian left, libertarian right and authoritarian right. Those on the left prefer a more controlled economy, while those on the right have a preference for free markets.
2019-4-16 22:26 | |
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Cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Their advantages over traditional remittances are so extensive that more and more financial institutions are accepting reality, using these technologies to evolve and adapt their products to the needs of.
2019-4-14 19:15 | |
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Bitcoin’s strong bullish rally this week garnered the attention of financial institutions and governments alike, with many personalities tweeting about the same. Though adoption and acceptance of crypto-assets has increased manifold over the past year, regulatory clarity is still a distant reality.
2019-4-6 03:30 | |
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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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The researchers at Canadian financial firm Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets say that that the Bitcoin all-time high price of $20,000 will be a reality again by 2021. In the above chart, there’s a remarkable similarity in trading patterns between the periods 2011-2015 and 2015-2019, and if the trend continues, HODLers could be set for a […]
2019-3-6 19:33 | |
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Nasdaq Set To Add Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Indices To Global Data Service Nasdaq, one of the largest stock exchange operators in the financial world, has decided to add indices for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) to its global data service.
2019-2-13 19:37 | |
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For our ongoing series Fundamentals, we’re looking at different companies worldwide and the basic principles they were built on. This time: financial solutions company Collins SBA. At first glance, Collins SBA appears to be some sort of travel agency.
2019-2-4 16:02 | |
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Fidelity Investments, one of the world’s largest asset managers, is breaking into bitcoin custody. According to a recent report from Bloomberg, three people “with knowledge on the matter” from firms in contact with Fidelity have said that the company is tentatively planning to launch a custody service for bitcoin in March.
2019-1-31 23:39 | |
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With the 10th anniversary of Bitcoin’s launch under the industry’s belt, it’s hard to believe how far the space has traveled in that time. Bitcoin Magazine has asked a number of long-time members of the space to reflect on their experiences, and published author Simon Dixon spoke with us about some of his observations over the years.
2019-1-26 01:44 | |
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CoinSpeaker Mobile Payments Is A Big Market – And It’s About To Get Much Bigger In recent years, mobile payment has become a key method of online shopping and other forms of eCommerce.
2019-1-25 15:16 | |
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;Japan’s primary financial watchdog, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), could approve crypto exchange-traded-funds despite abandoning plans to allow Bitcoin futures, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on January 7, 2019.
2019-1-8 22:00 | |
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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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Nick Spanos is an early adopter and innovator in the blockchain space. He is best known for launching Bitcoin Center NYC, the world’s first live cryptocurrency exchange, in 2013, right next to the New York Stock Exchange — as immortalized in the Netflix documentary “Banking on Bitcoin.
2018-12-15 21:43 | |
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An unconfirmed report released today, November 27, 2018, claims that NASDAQ has plans to launch bitcoin-based futures contracts, and that these plans are continuing to go forward despite the recent crypto crash.
2018-11-28 20:45 | |
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There’s no denying that when it comes to receiving and accepting payments, traditional online fiat currency payment operators reign supreme. However, recent advances in blockchain and financial technology are making free and fast transactions, once touted as impossible, reality.
2018-11-21 12:16 | |
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Ethereum holds steady above $3,300, as crypto traders gear up for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Derivatives traders are bullish on Ethereum and open interest in Ether’s derivatives contracts crossed $30 billion, as of Friday.
Cross-chain bridge protocol Orbiter Finance plans to airdrop governance token OBT to users on Jan. 20, coinciding with Trump’s swearing-in.
Polymarket users expect Berachain and Linea Protocol to launch their airdrops in the first quarter of this year. A small Polymarket poll with $22,000 in assets places the odds of Berachain’s airdrop at 90% and Linear at 89%. Berachain airdrop…
Trends are everything in the blockchain world. They drive the crypto market and create narratives that shape the direction of bull and bear markets. Being on the right side of the trends in blockchain technology can be the catalyst for…
DataDance raises millions with Hash Global’s backing to shake up the world of decentralized data. DataDance, a layer-2 blockchain network focused on revolutionizing consumer data asset services, has secured a multi-million-dollar seed funding round led by blockchain giant Hash Global.…
Ink, a layer-2 blockchain developed by crypto exchange Kraken and built on the Optimism Superchain, is now live, with oracle platform RedStone as an official partner. The Ink Chain mainnet launched on Dec.
Deutsche Bank is reportedly building a Layer 2 under an asset-servicing pilot project called Dama 2 as part of the lender’s goal to clear regulatory hurdles for institutions who want to use public blockchains.