2019-12-24 02:55 |
An official at China’s central bank says that the digital form of the yuan will be different from Bitcoin and stablecoins
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The debate on allowing cryptocurrency to be used within Japan has been interesting, to say the least. While the nation has been capitalizing on the benefits that blockchain technology can offer, cryptocurrency has been a vastly different story.
2019-7-6 22:59 | |
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Cryptocurrency is expanding to regions around the world, though every country has different ways of handling it. Some countries have created regulations that are more suitable to development in their economies, but central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are slowly gaining momentum.
2019-6-18 00:40 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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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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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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The three new assets with vastly different features will see trading pick up in the coming days, potentially being added to the central Coinbase broker service.
2019-4-9 13:59 | |
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Similar to traditional financial ecosystem where strict guidelines govern the way new fiat currencies are minted by central banks, the decentralized world of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies have several consensus algorithms (proof-of-work (PoW), proof-of-stake (PoS), delegated-proof-of-stake (DPoS), and others which leverage different principles to mint new coins, secure a distributed ledger and partake in governance.
2019-4-8 17:00 | |
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Lesotho, South Africa, March 20, 2019 – HYBSE Lesotho (PTY) Ltd. (HYBSE) has launched its exchange today, which allows traders to exchange and trade all financial instruments on a distributed ledger technology (DLT).
2019-3-22 10:21 | |
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Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.
2019-2-18 18:30 | |
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Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have been analyzed by several banking institutions around the world, specifically by several central banks in different countries. However, they are different than virtual currencies such as Bitcoin (BTC).
2019-2-17 14:42 | |
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Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and Bitcoin could scarcely be more different. One is permissioned, the other permissionless; one centralized, the other decentralized; one is censorable, the other censorship-resistant.
2019-2-16 18:04 | |
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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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According to China Judgements Online, a database of Chinese court documents, half of all lawsuits pertaining to cryptocurrencies were filed last year, highlighting an increase in fraudulent activity despite China’s regulatory crackdown.
2019-1-5 23:55 | |
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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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Virtual currencies expanded all over the world and in many different fields. Indeed, there are several central banks that are getting into digital currencies. There are many benefits of embracing cryptocurrencies or creating new ones.
2018-12-17 11:08 | |
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Use Of Crypto Becomes Clearer In Bahrain After Central Bank Establishes Draft Regulations Countries around the world seem to be gravitating towards one of three different ways of handling cryptocurrency – banning it, establishing unclear rules that are constantly being reassessed, or clearly regulating it. In a new report from Reuters on December 13th, the […]
2018-12-15 23:27 | |
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In an effort to create a financial ecosystem around the wallet application, SovereignWallet company develops what it calls the “Algorithmic central bank” for the platform, along with the “Meta blockchain”, capable of using different protocols.
2018-11-21 10:29 | |
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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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Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV).
2018-11-17 02:13 | |
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Very few positive stories come out of China with cryptocurrency in the headlines. This one is no different as the central bank has continued with its rhetoric over the risks of dealing with digital currencies.
2018-11-9 16:00 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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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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The law offices of Pomerantz LLP in New York have filed a series of civil suits against MGT Capital Investment and its executive officers on behalf of several of the trading firm’s past or present customers.
2018-10-18 20:05 | |
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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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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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People often wonder why a cryptocurrency with a limited supply like bitcoin has been gaining traction over the years. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the world’s central banks have printed around $12-30 trillion worth of promissory notes, and more than $10 trillion in negative-yielding global bonds.
2018-9-11 06:45 | |
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Law enforcement officials in Russia have seized 22 BATMs installed at stores and restaurants in 9 different cities. The confiscation has been carried out on orders from the Prosecutor’s Office and the Central Bank, local media reported.
2018-9-2 04:50 | |
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Despite its fierce battle against cryptocurrency, India’s Central Bank, The Reserve Bank of India has set out to create a digital currency to be used for payments in the country. According to the Bank’s 2017-2018 annual report published on Wednesday, a committee of members from different departments has been set up to look into the […] The post India Central Bank Considers Using a Digital Currency for Payments appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-8-30 16:14 | |
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On August 26, 2018, the Jerusalem Post published an interesting story about the possibility of Israel adopting a state-backed cryptocurrency as Venezuela recently did, albeit for entirely different reasons.
2018-8-29 13:00 | |
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Morgan Creek, a capital management company that oversees more than $1. 5 billion in assets, has partnered with Bitwise Asset Management to create the Digital Asset Index Fund.
2018-8-28 21:06 | |
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When bitcoin was launched in 2009, the idea was to enable individuals to be their bank by allowing them to store, send and receive digital cash without the need for a financial intermediary. Since the early days of bitcoin, much has changed in the world of cryptocurrencies.
2018-8-28 13:00 | |
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China’s central bank has provided insight into fraudulent blockchain schemes and how to avoid falling prey to them. It also asked retail investors to report criminal clues to relevant departments.
2018-8-27 01:00 | |
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) are collaborating on the development of new capabilities for the settlement of tokenized assets across different blockchain platforms, the central bank announced on Friday.
2018-8-25 23:54 | |
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently revealed that the nation’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, will be used as a unit of account by the state oil company PDVSA.
2018-8-16 00:26 | |
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Barbados-based startup Bitt has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Central Bank of Curacao and Sint Maarten (CBCS). The goal of the partnership is to look into the different possibilities and feasibilities of issuing digital guilder or a Central Bank backed cryptocurrency.
2018-8-15 12:00 | |
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On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23.
2018-8-3 19:24 | |
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To Mark Pascall, co-founder of BlockchainLabs New Zealand (NZ) and president of the Blockchain Association NZ, the blockchain space is more than just a new technology layer, it’s a “fundamentally different way for organizations and societies to operate.
2018-7-31 21:27 | |
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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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Decentralized exchanges hold a lot of promise. They represent a different method of exchanging value without too many central entities involved in the process. Even so, decentralized exchanges are not without their security flaws.
2018-7-27 21:00 | |
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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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Cartesi is an infrastructure layer that grants blockchains the power to achieve consensus over real world computations happening off-chain. Cartesi embraces the security and the economy of the blockchain, while enabling real world computational tasks.
2018-7-21 20:02 | |
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According to the Financial Times, Hong Kong’s Central Bank will be testing out a blockchain-based trade finance platform. The platform is linked to 21 different banks which include HSBC and Standard Chartered.
2018-7-17 22:53 | |
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According to the Financial Times, Hong Kong’s Central Bank will be testing out a blockchain-based trade finance platform. The platform is linked to 21 different banks which include HSBC and Standard Chartered.
2018-7-16 09:33 | |
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As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
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Economic researchers at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy report that central bank digital currencies could provide stability, and are different from crypto, which is too volatile
2018-6-28 06:18 | |
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All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.
2018-6-15 23:31 | |
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Amid the ongoing global CBDCs adoption, China proposes an Asian-wide digital currency to reduce the continent’s economic reliance on the US dollar. USD is unquestionably the most widely used international currency.
PBoC deputy governor Fan Yifei said expanding e-CNY trials to the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Hebei and Sichuan would happen "at a proper time."
In contrast to many other nations, China has adhered strictly to a zero-COVID policy, resulting in the repeated shutdown and closure of non-essential enterprises in key financial centres such as Shanghai.