Crypto pundits gather online to discuss innovation and national security

Sheila Warren and Jerry Brito joined security expert Juan Zarate to address ways to use cryptocurrency in the national interest.

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Biden’s Executive Order Calls for ‘Highest Urgency’ on CBDC Research and Development

The President has called on the Treasury Department to spearhead a series of reports looking into CBDC technology and how to implement them – ”if doing so is deemed to be in the national interest.”

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SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Targets Crypto Lending Platforms, Starting with Coinbase Lend

SEC doesn’t want Coinbase Lend to allow its users to earn a 4% interest rate on USDC “over 8x the national average for high-yield savings accounts.” The post SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Targets Crypto Lending Platforms, Starting with Coinbase Lend first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Bitcoin is a War Deterrent and in the Interest of US National Security Says Space Force Engineer

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Angola Hikes Benchmark Interest Rate as Central Bank Attempts to Tame Rising Inflation

The Angolan central bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) recently hiked the country’s benchmark interest rate from 15.5% to a record of 20%. The largely unexpected hike, which is one of the National Bank of Angola (NBA)’s attempts to curb inflation, marks the first time the benchmark rate has been increased since November 2017. Rising Inflation […]

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Spain: Ruling Party Proposes the Creation of a National Digital Currency

The Spanish are now showing interest in joining the central bank digital currency (CBDC) bandwagon. Spanish Political Party Proposes CBDC According to a report by Spanish newspaper El Economista, the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) – the governing political body in Spain – has proposed the creation of a Spanish CBDC. For the uninitiated, the PSOERead More

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El Salvador’s Opposition Leaders Fight Against Country’s Bitcoin Law 

Members of El Salvador’s Farabundo Marti National Liberation (FMLN) have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Bitcoin Law passed by the country’s lawmakers earlier in June. The plaintiff claims El Salvador’s bitcoin (BTC) adoption push is not in the people’s best interest, according to an EL Mundo report on June 21, 2021. OppositionRead More

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South Africa to revise national policy position on cryptocurrency

Strong retail interest in crypto has driven South African regulators to rethink how they classify cryptocurrencies.

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Biden Makes Cryptocurrency a Focus of New Anti-Corruption Directive for National Security

Cryptocurrency is a point of focus in President Joe Biden’s new directive aimed at combating corruption as a core national security interest of the U. S. An official of the Biden administration says that major parts of the directive will focus on cryptocurrency and cybercrime.

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Opinion: popularity of bitcoin is growing due to distrust to national regulators

Financial analysts acknowledge the growing interest in alternative financial instruments and their potential due to investor distrust in the monetary policy of national central banks.

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Coronavirus Driving Interest in CBDCs, Say Central Bank Chiefs

Central banks meeting in Russia said the coronavirus pandemic is a driving force behind growing interest in national digital currencies.

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Russia To Conduct A Pilot Of Its Digital Ruble By End Of 2021: Senior Bank Of Russia Official

Countries around the world have shown great interest in developing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), with a good number of central banks already in the process of creating digital versions of their national currencies.

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The NSC Labels Blockchain a National Security Issue

On the weekly recap, NLW looks at growth in institutional investment, big interest among the G20 in CBDCs and a new National Security Council report.

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Grayscale Launches Second National TV Commercial to Drive Interest In Digital Assets

Grayscale Investments launches a new digital assets TV commercial ad across top stations on Monday aiming at onboarding no coiners onto the crypto bandwagon. The video, which has since been shared thousands of times across social media, raised different opinions across crypto Twitter similar to its previous #DropGold campaign.

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Cryptocurrency Exchange CEX.IO Adds New USDT/GBP Trading Pair

LONDON, the United Kingdom – CEX. IO, one of the largest international exchanges on the cryptocurrency market, announces support for a new USDT/GBP trading pair on its exchange platform. As a result and amid rising interest in the stablecoin on the cryptocurrency exchange platform, UK citizens can now use their national fiat currency to purchase USDT […] The post Cryptocurrency Exchange CEX.

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US Real Estate Market Shudders: Experts Predict 40% Lower Sales, March Contracts Dip by 21%

According to the National Association of Realtors, pending contracts for property sales dropped by 20. 8% in March. Further, the 30-year fixed mortgage interest rate dropped to 3. 43%, but a great majority of people are still not interested in buying or renting homes at the moment.

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U.S. Government Continues Digging a Hole of Debt, Bitcoin Keeps Growing

The United States Treasury has announced the return of the 20-year bond, as it faces mounting deficits. With more than $23 trillion of debt owed by the U. S. , coming up with ways to rake in interest is becoming a much greater portion of the national budget.

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Owning Fiat Just Got More Expensive – NIRP Strikes Again

With the recent Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) announcement that even more customers will be charged to hold money in their banks, people are scrambling to find ways to preserve their wealth, while USB and others scramble to dam the losses resulting from national negative interest rate policy (NIRP).

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John McAfee Wants To Help Cuba Create National Cryptocurrency

US fugitive and antivirus tech sage John McAfee has expressed interest in helping Cuba develop its own national cryptocurrency to bypass US trade embargoes.

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Bitcoin: The Censorship Free Cure to JP Morgan’s Dystopian Nightmare

By CCN: Just as the world’s financial institutions begin to take an interest in Bitcoin, they prove themselves to be the very reason for its creation. After several conservative activists were effectively ‘unpersoned’ by JP Morgan Chase earlier this year, CEO Jamie Dimon still won’t deny there could be more to come.

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The State Of Crypto Adoption In Venezuela Is Still Rising Amid Economic And Political Turmoil

The State Of Crypto Adoption In Venezuela Venezuela is currently going through a political crisis. And it’s effecting the economy as well. The inflammation rate of its currency has reached 1,300,300% in the 12 months leading to last November, according to the National Assembly controlled by the opposition. The question that seems to interest the […]

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Five upcoming crypto and blockchain events worth attending

Regardless of how cryptocurrency prices are performing in the open marketplace, there is much going on behind the scenes. Whether its interest from innovative startups, blue-chip companies or national regulators–the blockchain industry is as hot as ever.

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Canadian Province Offers Low-Cost Energy Incentives to Bitcoin Miners

They’re doing it in British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and Labrador — bitcoin miners in Canadian provinces are taking advantage of the country’s cool climate and abundant supplies of hydroelectric power.

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Levblockchain ICO

Our Organization Levblockchain LVE, will help many new, young, passionate people who are trying to work on new technology projects, blockchain projects and products. Many of Greek Developers abandoning because of the country’s educational erroneous infrastructure and frozen economic growth.

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Switzerland’s National Exchange is Listing an XRP Investment Product

SIX Swiss Exchange, Switzerland’s principal stock exchange based in Zurich, could list an XRP Exchange Traded Product soon. This was made known in a report in BlockCrypto, on Monday.  The XRP ETP, which is floated by Swiss crypto startup Amun AG, will be launched under the “AXRP” ticker.

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Grim Stories of Ethical, Privacy Abuses Emerge About Coinbase’s New Partners

When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.

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Why tech giants are interested in regulating facial recognition

Last week, Amazon made the unexpected move of calling for regulation on facial recognition. In a blog post published on Thursday, Michael Punke, VP of global public policy at Amazon Web Services, expressed support for a “national legislative framework that protects individual civil rights and ensures that governments are transparent in their use of facial recognition technology.

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4 Reasons Bitcoin is the World’s ‘Most Compelling Asset’: VC Spencer Bogart

Now is the perfect time to buy bitcoin, according to Spencer Bogart, a partner at Blockchain Capital. Speaking to Bloomberg, Bogart was evangelical about bitcoin, calling it “the most compelling asset in the world right now.

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Canada’s First All-Crypto Legal Firm Opens Its Doors to Global Clientele

Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.

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European Cryptocurrency Exchange ICO

The European Cryptocurrency Exchange, or EUCX (pronounced You See Ex) is a new cryptocurrency exchange with a global focus, based in the Netherlands, filling the European gap in secure and regulated exchanges aimed at the professional retail trader and boutique firms.

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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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Why Ohio’s State Treasurer Backs Decision to Accept BTC For Tax Payments

As tax season is rapidly approaching, some states, like Ohio, have decided to set a new standard for the rest of the country to follow. Back in November, Ohio became the first state in the U.

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Say No More About FedCoin, US Federal Reserve Has No Interest in National Crypto Anymore

The Federal Reserve of the United States, known commonly as Fed, has lost its interest in the idea of national cryptocurrencies. With the value of Bitcoin skyrocketing last year, blockchain seemed like the future, but it was actually a lot more hype than anything else, so now the Fed is abandoning the idea of the […]

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What is an exchange-traded product (ETP)?

Exchange-traded products (ETP) are a type of security that is derivatively priced and trades intra-day on a national securities exchange. ETPs are priced so the value is derived from other investment instruments, such as a commodity, a currency, a share price or an interest rate.

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New Cryptocurrency-Based ETP Arrives in Switzerland

Amun AG, a startup in Zug, Switzerland, has received a license from Swiss authorities to offer a new cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP). An ETP is a blanket term to denote a security that derives its price from an underlying asset (e.

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Trader Jailed and Fined Over $1 Million for Bitcoin and Litecoin Fraud Scheme

The U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a press release on Friday, November 9, 2018, stating that it had fined Arizona resident Joseph Kim for perpetrating a fraudulent cryptocurrency trading scheme against his former employer and other investors.

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SEC Penalizes EtherDelta Founder for Failing to Register Crypto Exchange

On November 8, 2018, the SEC announced the conclusion of an investigation into the digital token trading platform EtherDelta. According to the financial authority, EtherDelta failed to register as a national securities exchange despite offering the buying and selling of security-like assets on a secondary market.

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EtherDelta Founder Charged by SEC For Operating an Unregistered Exchange

In an apparent first, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the founder of EtherDelta, Zachary Coburn, with running an “unregistered national securities exchange,” according to a press release from the regulator.

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Revolutions and Counter Revolutions: Andreas Antonopoulos Reflects on 10 Years of Bitcoin

As Bitcoin approaches its 10th anniversary, its community, old and new, has begun taking stock of how a decade has come to alter or define the cryptocurrency — and what Bitcoin has done to alter or define the decade.

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SEC Obtains Emergency Court Order to Halt Questionable ICO

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.

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John McAfee Running for Office?

John McAfee has expressed his interest in becoming the President of the United States. He aims to be the first citizen of the US to further the cause of digital currencies and blockchain at more of a national stage.

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John McAfee Running for United States Presidency so that he can Promote Cryptocurrency in the National stage

ohn McAfee expresses his interest in becoming the first citizen of the United States of America to further the cause of blockchain and cryptocurrency at the national stage. He revealed this through a tweet on the October 3rd.

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SEC Charges Forex Broker for Illegal Securities Swaps Involving Bitcoin

In what seems like the first coordinated strike from government agencies, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have taken action against a securities broker for violating federal laws in connection with security-based swaps funded by bitcoin.

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eCash Founder David Chaum Makes Bold Promises with Elixxir Blockchain

Over 30 years after creating eCash, a predecessor of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which spawned the Cypherpunk movement of the 1980s, Dr. David Chaum is back in the public eye with a claim of having invented “the world’s fastest cryptocurrency.

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Cryptocurrency Remains Popular In South Africa, But Scams and Questions Still Loom

Sales for an exclusively African cryptocurrency opened up in August to those with a South African bank account — seemingly capitalizing on virtual currency’s popularity in the nation. Despite growing interest, however, scams and fraud are still rife in the country.

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A "Good Start": U.S. Introduces Office of Innovation and Sandbox for Fintech

Fintech businesses struggling to stay inbounds of government rules may soon receive a dose of much-needed guidance via the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

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Blockchain Television Coming to Fox Business Network

Blockchain and cryptocurrency are officially disrupting television. Blockchain television is coming to small screens everywhere. In May, CBS announced a partnership with popular YouTube personality ‘Crypto Crow.

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Banks Have Become Skeptical of Crypto: Swiss National Bank Executive

When cryptos became widely popular, central banks were seriously considering issuing their own digital currencies. However, the interest has slowly waned as central banks begin to seriously consider the implications such currencies would have on financial stability.

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Swiss National Bank is Skeptical of National State-Issued Crypto

Business Insider reported that Thomas Moser, a key member of management at the National Swiss Bank, believes that governments have lost interest in state-issued crypto or digital currencies. Thomas Moser: “Enthusiasm Has Slowed” For National Crypto While at a cryptocurrency conference in Zug, Switzerland, the representative of the bank gave a Business Insider journalist an.

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