2020-2-16 06:30 |
A central bank survey reveals cryptocurrency is set to gain 1.6 billion users within 3 years
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Another tropical island country is set to get its own digital currency. The Bahamas’ Central Bank governor John Rolle yesterday confirmed that the digital Bahamian dollar will be rolled out by the second half of 2020.
2020-2-14 16:30 | |
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As tensions escalated between the U. S. and Iran in recent months, reports have detailed that Chinese bitcoin miners are looking to set up shop in Central Asia and more specifically in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
2020-2-13 23:10 | |
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Japanese lawmakers want the government to push for talks on central bank digital currency (CBDC) during the next G7 summit holding in the summer. US Should Set CBDC Agenda for G7 Partners According to Reuters, a parliamentary group led by Akira Amari of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) wants the country’s government to consider issuingRead MoreRead More.
2020-2-7 14:00 | |
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At 4th Annual Blockchain Central Davos event held recently, we met up with Alexey Blagirev, Digital and Investor Relations Director, Sensorium Corporation. He provided compelling insight into the new and radical Sensorium platform and how it is set to revolutionize gaming as we know it today.
2020-2-5 16:26 | |
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With China set to be the first nation to release a sovereign digital currency, central banks around the world are positioning to follow.
2020-1-31 18:00 | |
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Two years after reports of a Cambodian cryptocurrency, the country is set to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) payment system. Project Bakong to Feature Centralized Digital Currency According to Cambodian daily Phnom Penh Post, the country’s central bank is set to roll out “Project Bakong,” a blockchain-powered money transfer platform that features a CBDC.
2020-1-31 17:00 | |
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Crypto Dad wants to digitize the greenback. His new venture, the Digital Dollar Project, is a foundation set up to advocate for a US central bank digital currency (CBDC). But is it necessary? What Libra Did Interest in CBDCs has been growing since Facebook threatened to undermine the international monetary order with the creation of […] The post Why Crypto Dad Wants to Digitize the Greenback appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-1-21 19:31 | |
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With clearer regulations and a race between central banks to develop digital currencies, Asia is leading the way in the cryptocurrency industry. This trend is set to continue in 2020 as nations of the West get bogged down by their own bureaucracy.
2020-1-13 06:17 | |
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As central bankers around the world get set for a prolonged period of monetary debasement, the 99% could look to Bitcoin for protection. A Decade of Monetary Debasement Looms The European Central Bank issued guidance at the end of last year that it would keep “the key ECB interest rates to remain at their present […] The post Bitcoin the Answer to Monetary Debasement? appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-1-7 09:23 | |
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Coinspeaker Central Bank of Bahamas Launches Digital Currency TodayThe central bank of the Bahamas is set to launch a pilot of its digital currency. It is however not a stablecoin and will not replace fiat.
2019-12-27 13:00 | |
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The European Central Bank (ECB) should determine objectives for its digital currency taskforce by mid-2020, ECB President Christine Lagarde said during her first policy meeting. What’s the Purpose of a Digital Euro? Earlier today, the ECB’s Governing Council met to decide the benchmark interest rate and the monetary policy.
2019-12-12 22:24 | |
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China’s securities regulator reportedly plans to set up a tech division that will be headed by the former chief of the central bank’s digital currency initiative
2019-12-11 16:03 | |
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Coinspeaker Blockchain-Based Collectible Coins Announced by Lithuanian Central BankThere were many fun ways of authorities trying to make use of blockchain in counting some items. This time, it is a set of collectible silver-backed coins offered by the Bank of Lithuania.
2019-12-10 11:09 | |
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In celebration of the 50th anniversary of NASA’s historic moon landing mission, Google built a massive portrait of Apollo 11 software lead Margaret Hamilton using only solar panels and the reflection of the moon.
2019-7-19 17:56 | |
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Asian giant Japan has set up a committee to look into the potential of the new Facebook’ s cryptocurrency project, called Libra, especially in the area of banking, finances and its ability to cripple a struggling economy if not properly tackled.
2019-7-15 20:55 | |
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According to regional reports, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) is planning to allow licensed cryptocurrency mining as long as operations are charged for electricity based on the price of export. The CBI governor, Abdol Nasser Hemmati, explained that mined cryptocurrencies should flow back into the Iranian economy.
2019-7-13 00:10 | |
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Africa Blockchain Conference set to be held from July 3 to July 4 will have Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni as the central attraction. State House Press Secretary Linda Nabusayi also confirmed that the President will host his counterpart, President Julius Maasa Bio of Sierra Leone who will arrive on July 1. Notably, the same conference […]
2019-6-25 19:12 | |
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According to a report published by Reuters on June 21, 2019, France is set to form a G7 cryptocurrency task force to explore how global central banks can regulate cryptocurrencies like Facebook’s Libra without the risk of it being used for money laundering and other illicit activities.
2019-6-22 23:00 | |
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France will set up a task force for the G7 nations to investigate ‘stablecoin’ projects such as Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency. France’s Central Bank Isn’t Entirely On-Board With Stablecoins France’s Central Bank Governor, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, made the announcement, while addressing finance industry officials.
2019-6-21 22:00 | |
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New currency reforms in Venezuela accompanied a decisive surge in Bitcoin trading this week, with informal markets setting new all-time highs. Bitcoin Boom As Central Bank Re-adds Zeros Data from monitoring resource Coin Dance reveals that in the seven days ending June 15, Venezuelans transacted over 46 billion sovereign bolivars (VES) on P2P Bitcoin exchange Localbitcoins.
2019-6-17 11:00 | |
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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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Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee and IBM are set to sign a new agreement that will see blockchain technology being used in customs processes. The new deal signifies the developing cordial relationship between IBM and Azerbaijan government.
2019-6-13 22:46 | |
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The idea behind blockchain technology is decentralization, a phenomenon that entails the absence of central control in a ledger system. While IOTA has been a blockchain project for some time now, it lacked this single quality, one of three that make any system a true blockchain set up with security, scalability and decentralization. IOTA has […]
2019-6-2 23:06 | |
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By CCN: The hurdles of using crypto in money laundering are set to increase if plans by G20 countries materialize. Per Nikkei Asian Review, G20 countries are working on a deal aimed at creating a cryptocurrency exchange registry.
2019-5-31 13:56 | |
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The Central Bank of The Bahamas (CBOB) is set to move one step closer toward a nation-wide digital payment structure as it looks to ink a business partnership with transaction provider NZIA. io on May 30, 2019.
2019-5-30 13:00 | |
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The G-20 countries are gearing up for the upcoming G-20 summit, and the main aim of the upcoming event will be largely focused towards implementing unified crypto regulations set by intergovernmental organizations such as the Financial Action Task Force.
2019-5-29 18:54 | |
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As the G20 summit approaches, member countries have been discussing how to implement the standards set by intergovernmental organizations such as the Financial Action Task Force. While there may be some challenges in complying with the standards, the European Central Bank says the risks crypto assets pose to the euro area’s financial stability are manageable.
2019-5-29 04:55 | |
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iSTOX, a Singapore Exchange-backed security token platform, has joined a regulatory sandbox set up by Singapore's central bank.
2019-5-24 12:00 | |
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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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By CCN: The European Central Bank (ECB) has found that crypto does not pose risks to financial stability in the Eurozone. The central bank does recommend, however, that European legislatures create a uniform approach to crypto-assets.
2019-5-19 15:40 | |
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By CCN: The U. S. /China trade war stage has been set with no finale in sight, and the unlikely beneficiary appears to be bitcoin. While it’s still early days, the crypto is emerging as a viable global hedge.
2019-5-15 20:00 | |
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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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Elitecoin is a P2P trading platform (ETM) built on the algorithm of Scrypt (PoS/PoW) blockchain that brings a wallet based peer-to-peer trading experience to cryptocurrency traders worldwide The ETM solution allows users to trade cryptocurrency in a totally decentralized and trustless environment.
2019-5-3 10:53 | |
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A Medium post published by Spencer Bogart, a general partner at Blockchain Capital, compares data collected from a set of surveys from October 2017 and April 2019 containing identical questions (plus a few new ones).
2019-5-1 18:55 | |
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According to an article by the Financial Post “cash is almost extinct” in Sweden due to the country’s efforts to become a cashless society. Recently, Sweden’s Central Bank, also known as Riksbank, released a statement requesting clarification on legal tender.
2019-4-30 18:24 | |
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The introduction of digital currencies such as Bitcoin created a rush of people to proclaim that a revolution was in the offing. That we, the people, would be set free from the shackles of central bankers and retail banks, and be in complete control of our money.
2019-4-29 23:32 | |
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India’s supreme court has postponed hearing the crypto case at the request of the government’s counsel. The court was expecting to hear about the country’s cryptocurrency regulation today before proceeding to address the banking ban by the central bank.
2019-3-29 10:50 | |
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Since July 2018, due to a circular released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in April, local banks were prohibited from dealing with bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges by the central bank. Last month, the Supreme Court of India provided the government four weeks to draft a cryptocurrency regulatory framework, which would decide the legal landscape of the cryptocurrency market in India for the foreseeable future.
2019-3-26 08:30 | |
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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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A Mexican exchange that handles about $1 million a day in crypto trading volumes says that a proposed new set of rules by the Mexican Central Bank does not affect... The post Mexican Crypto Exchange Says Not Affected by New Central Bank Proposed Rules appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-3-15 13:17 | |
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The cryptocurrency world has seen its fair share of controversy, fake news, and rumors. It now seems another rumor is spreading, although it seems unlikely to have any major impact. A new set of cryptocurrency-oriented guidelines has been announced in Mexico, which leads many people to believe crypto will be banned.
2019-3-15 12:08 | |
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The Central Bank of Russia wants to set a yearly limit of $9,100 for “unqualified investors” dealing with crypto assets
2019-3-12 15:48 | |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) https://www.eccb-centralbank.org, the central bank for the Eastern Caribbean dollar, has announced its set to launch a pilot for a distributed ledger technology (DLT) powered central bank digital currency and could proceed to adopt it as a legal tender in 2020 if all goes as planned, according to reports on […]
2019-3-6 23:19 | |
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The Rain cryptocurrency exchange, a Bahrain-based cryptocurrency trading platform, is on the verge of obtaining a license from the nation’s authorities following its successful graduation from the regulatory sandbox created by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB).
2019-3-1 21:00 | |
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The Central Bank of Bahrain has issued one of the most comprehensive set of cryptocurrency regulations in the Middle East, including rules on licensing, governance, and risk management for the new asset class.
2019-2-26 13:18 | |
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Sequel to the crypto banking ban by the central bank of India, there have been petitions, the Supreme court of India is all set to hear the petition. It has placed a demand on the Indian government to produce crypto rules and regulations to enable it to make a ruling on the existing cases.
2019-2-26 19:14 | |
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The Supreme Court of India has reportedly given the Indian government four weeks to come up with cryptocurrency regulations before making its ruling on pending crypto cases. The court was set to hear the petitions against the crypto banking ban by the central bank this week.
2019-2-25 12:50 | |
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The Supreme Court of India has reportedly given the Indian government four weeks to come up with cryptocurrency regulations before making its ruling on pending crypto cases. The court was set to hear the petitions against the crypto banking ban by the central bank this week.
2019-2-25 12:50 | |
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The year of 2018 is seemingly set to be one dedicated to the emergence of decentralized exchange platforms. Ethereum’s EtherDelta started this new wave of exchanges that are able to provide their services in a way that isn’t tied down to a central identity.
2019-2-24 19:02 | |
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Центральный банк Израиля (BOI) сообщил, что начинает эксперимент по выпуску цифрового шекеля — при помощи созданного вместе с центробанком Великобритании сервиса Rosalind.