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CBDCs won’t fundamentally be changing anything — central banks still want to control your wealth and your money.
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With BTC breaking above $11K and central banks collaborating to standardize CBDCs, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!
2020-10-10 19:00 | |
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Like, hate, or fear them, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are on their way. There will be no stopping them. From Sweden to Thailand and China to Canada, governments the world over are experimenting with CBDCs.
2020-8-22 12:00 | |
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Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency ever, was created with the intent to give the power back to people. The decentralized payment system is not controlled by an authoritarian central party, but rather has been made fully transparent to all users.
2020-6-2 10:00 | |
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Unless you have your head in the sand, you’ve probably realized that governments and central banks can print money out of thin air and in unlimited amounts. The United States and the Federal Reserve have been creating money from nothing for years because they had exhausted all their monetary policies.
2020-3-27 00:30 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Temperatures in the city where I live, Delhi, can be really extreme. In summer, the mercury rises above 45-degrees Celcius.
2019-7-2 15:47 | |
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Australian regulators don't expect Libra to gain much traction in the land down under.
2019-6-22 01:00 | |
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Could any two investments seem more different than precious metals like gold and silver versus digital currencies? One is dug from the ground, forged in flames and hurts like heck when you drop it on your foot.
2019-5-29 18:46 | |
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To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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Even though it might seem biased — coming from a VC — I genuinely believe that for ambitious founders looking to grow fast, VCs are a necessary step on the road to world domination. Unless you’ve got bundles of cash to self-fund, VC investment gives you the resources to get your product to market, scale your operations significantly faster than you could otherwise, and avoid many of the common pitfalls that early startups face.
2019-5-10 05:30 | |
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A newly developed system of money aimed at the internet is offered by INOEX offering its services as Cryptocurrency Exchange. Enjoy peer to peer payment system and use the concept of digital currency.
2019-4-5 12:04 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published an investment contract framework for digital assets, which is intended to give crypto companies guidance as to whether a cryptocurrency is a security.
2019-4-4 22:02 | |
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VOLUM maximizes investment value and stability through its holding company structure. VOLUM invests in portfolio companies that currently possess, or have the ability to easily create, long-term asset value.
2019-3-31 12:40 | |
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France’s central bank won’t issue its own digital currency anytime soon because doing so would be a complex undertaking that could hurt the country’s flailing economy. That’s the assessment of Pauline Adam Kalfon, a blockchain and cryptocurrency partner at PwC France.
2019-3-24 16:15 | |
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A cryptocurrency fan has issued a warning: scammers are posing as the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to fool you into giving up $10,000 worth of Bitcoin, so take notice. A Reddit post titled “CIA got me fam” displayed proof of a new bogus email campaign designed to trick potential victims into thinking they are subject of an international criminal investigation.
2019-3-19 18:24 | |
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Saifedean Ammous, economics professor and author of The Bitcoin Standard, spoke with Bitcoinist in an exclusive interview. He explains why he is encouraging people to ‘pirate’ his book and why he believes central banks want nothing to do with a hard money like bitcoin.
2019-3-1 20:00 | |
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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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Decentralized exchange Bisq has upgraded its software with an entirely new User Interface (UI) design and the launch of the Bisq Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) on testnet.
2019-1-9 21:05 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder.
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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When it comes to precious metals, gold and silver lead the chain due to their high demand as they have many uses and are widely used in jewelry, cutlery, electronic components and more. Gold is also used as a reserve to balance the local economy by many central banks around the world.
2018-12-26 14:15 | |
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In order to curb the use of cryptocurrencies for malicious activities such as money laundering and the funding of terrorism, the central bank of Netherlands, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), has decided that it would be issuing licenses to cryptocurrency service providers.
2018-12-15 19:00 | |
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German blockchain startup Bitwala has launched crypto banking in Germany. After securing ˆ4 million (roughly $4. 5 million) from VC firms Earlybird and Coparion in September of 2018 to develop a crypto banking solution, the company has allegedly amassed a waiting list of 30,000 potential users.
2018-12-13 22:32 | |
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When the towers in New York fell, I became obsessed with economics. I wanted to follow the money to understand what happened on that dreadful day. During that time of inquiry, I found myself very interested in Austrian economic theory.
2018-11-21 19:26 | |
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There has never been an easier time to run a small business, especially in the age of smartphones and consumer-level laptops. For the price of a MacBook or an iPhone, a student or employee can navigate a rich tapestry of your company’s information, instruction, and leadership — provided you can effectively manage their experience.
2018-10-25 18:45 | |
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The incredible versatility of the Ethereum blockchain has enabled a plethora of different decentralized apps (dApps) to exist. In the following series will see ten platform dApps under the spotlight.
2018-10-20 01:00 | |
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Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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A new accessory for the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL could give Alexa devices a run for their money. The Pixel Stand, as its reportedly known, is an upright dock that effectively turns your smartphone into a Google Home hub.
2018-9-22 00:54 | |
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Whilst Monero is a decentralised cryptocurrency with no central control, there is a community led Monero research lab who have taken it upon themselves to improve the Monero network through carrying out extensive research and through implementing various upgrades etc.
2018-9-17 21:30 | |
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OpenLedger is fully decentralised crypto trading platform, one that plans to totally revamp the way we trade cryptocurrency online. Traditionally, cryptocurrency exchanges that claim to be ‘decentralised’ are not.
2018-8-16 16:45 | |
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International trade, people without identity and financial exclusion are global development areas that stand to be radically improved with blockchain technology, according to Michelle Chivunga, regional advisor for the British Blockchain Association.
2018-7-31 19:50 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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Computer manufacturing company HTC says it is on the verge of releasing its upcoming blockchain phone, Exodus, which was first announced in May of 2018. Chief crypto officer at HTC Phil Chen leads the company’s blockchain and cryptocurrency initiatives.
2018-7-18 19:47 | |
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When it comes to cryptocurrency, it seems that there are always two sides of the (bit)coin. On the negative side, there’s everything that can go wrong.
2018-7-14 19:30 | |
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Thomas Moser, a board director at the Swiss National Bank (SNB), believes that central banks’ interest in developing central bank-issued digital currencies (CBDCs) has now waned, Business Insider reports today, June 23.
2018-6-23 16:59 | |
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China’s regulators are pushing for banks to upgrade the “bank-tax interaction” model in a bid to expand financing for small businesses. According to a policy notice issued by the State Administration of Taxation and the National Financial Regulatory Administration, banks…
Hong Kong's sandbox role allows China to explore new financial technologies, like a gold-backed digital asset. Why does it matter? It could potentially be a stable alternative to the dollar.
Crypto money laundering is no longer centred on large, centralised exchanges. Instead, informal Chinese-language networks are playing a growing role in helping criminals move and disguise illicit funds.
A hard-start approach may force compliant firms to stop operations. The HKSFPA urges a 6–12 month grace period for applicants. The association also raised concerns over the CARF framework.
Seventy-six governments have pledged to share crypto data under CARF. Fifty-three countries have signed the agreement enabling automatic exchange. Switzerland delayed its timeline while the US continues its internal review.
HashKey Holdings Ltd. , operator of Hong Kong’s largest licensed cryptocurrency exchange, is seeking to raise as much as HK$1. 67 billion ($215 million) through an initial public offering, marking a significant test of the city’s ambitions to position itself as a regional digital-asset hub.
The People’s Bank of China has officially established the Digital RMB Operation and Management Center as the nation prepares its digital currency for widespread adoption. According to a recent report by Chinese media Capital Finance, the Governor of the central…