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Central Bank Digital Currency Called The ‘Worst Financial Idea In Recent Times’

On 18th July 2018, the US congressional subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade held a discussion aimed at addressing some of the major questions currently facing digital currencies. The hearing that was aptly named “The Future of Money: A Look at Digital Currencies” looked at all the implications that would come with implementing cryptocurrencies in […] дальше »

2018-7-20 17:53


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Cryptocurrency’s People-Oriented Nature Beats Traditional Monetary System

At a time when central banks and other heavyweights in the traditional finance sector are busily stating reasons why bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem can’t function as fiat money, highly reputable serial entrepreneur Jeffrey Wernick has come up with ideas why he thinks the world’s legacy finance system is faulty. дальше »

2018-7-16 22:30


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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

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. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16


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‘Digital Currency Is Basically A Fallacy’ Says Finland Central Bank

The Bank of Finland (BoF) has released a 133-page paper arguing the concept of digital currency is an “illusion. ” BoF: ‘Fundamental Nature’ Of Digital Currency ‘Elusive’ The document, compiled by the Finnish central bank’s head of digitalization Aleksi Grym, claims the world has become “muddled” about the difference between money and technology and argues that digital currency is in fact “basically a fallacy. дальше »

2018-7-12 05:00


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New Report Warns EU Policymakers Not to Ban Bitcoin

New research analysis on cryptocurrencies for the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the EU parliament cautions lawmakers neither to ignore nor “attempt to ban” virtual currencies.   A ‘Contemporary Form of Private Money’ The report, provided by Policy Department A at the request of the European Union Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, is titled Virtual currencies and central banks monetary policy: challenges ahead. дальше »

2018-7-2 14:00


Creating A National Cryptocurrency Not in the Plans of Switzerland – Central Bank Director

While cryptocurrencies have the potential to facilitate lightning fast payments across borders, reduce the cost of minting fiat money and drastically put inflation in check, the Swiss Central Bank board director, Thomas Moser has declared that digital currencies still do not have what it takes to be a national currency. дальше »

2018-6-23 01:45


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Switzerland Vetoes ‘Sovereign Money’ Ballot Which Analysts Correlate to Bitcoin

Switzerland voted against the so-called “sovereign money” referendum Sunday, June 10 – a proposal for a financial system that multiple commentators have compared to cryptocurrency. Sovereign money is an initiative that would give the country’s central bank sole control over creating money, instead of continuing to allow commercial banks to “create” money for credit and дальше »

2018-6-11 22:08