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Why Bitcoin-Like Scarcity Would Be a Disaster for the Dollar

28.7.2020
Calls to restrict the Fed's money printing powers fail to recognize the likely consequences, including price instability

First Mover: The Dollar Drop May Have Helped Push Bitcoin Past $11K

28.7.2020
As the U.S. dollar’s value slides, prices are suddenly rising for just about everything priced in dollars.  That includes bitcoin, which shot up some 13% on Monday for its biggest gain in almost three months. Prices soared past levels reached in February, prior to...

How Billion-Dollar Crypto Scams Lure Victims

25.7.2020
In the past week, reports emerged that some key members of the Onecoin scam were found dead in Mexico. According to reports, the two Oscar Brito Ibarra and Ignacio Ibarra may have been kidnapped and murdered but the motives behind their murder is unclear. Onecoin is one of the biggest...

English Football Club Hit With Multi-Million Dollar Ransomware Attack

23.7.2020
Cybersecurity authorities in the UK warned that ransomware could threaten the sports sector

Senate Hearing Sees Digital Dollar as a Tool for Economic Supremacy

23.7.2020
The digital dollar again appeared during a Senate hearing. However, it wasn't the focus of the hearing, but rather just another tool that can be used to maintain U.S. hegemony

Tech Like CBDCs Central to Senate Hearing on China-US Competition

22.7.2020
Senate looks at tech and innovation, including CBDC development, as critical area within rising tensions with China

What If the Too-Strong Dollar Is a Solved Problem? Feat. Jon Turek

17.7.2020
Finance writer Jon Turek argues that between Federal Reserve swap lines, Europe stabilization and a few other factors, the strong dollar problem may be (temporarily) solved

Japan Should Urge US to Hurry Up With Digital Dollar Says Fisco Exec.

17.7.2020
Japan may need to rely on the United States to have some influence over the development of digital currencies

The Bahamas Edges Closer to Hurricane-Proof Digital Currency

15.7.2020
The Bahamas is betting that its mobile phone-based digital currency could be the key to faster post-disaster economic recoveries

How a Digital Dollar Can Make the Financial System More Equitable

15.7.2020
Digital dollars can promote a more inclusive financial system, or they can contribute to already-growing economic inequality in the U.S

Does COVID-19 Have the World Rethinking Dollar Supremacy?

12.7.2020
A reading of a piece by a Yale professor and former head of Morgan Stanley Asia arguing the dollar’s status is changing rapidly

Hyper-Stablecoinization: From Eurodollars to Crypto-Dollars

12.7.2020
Crypto-dollarization is the world's next best hope to meet its insatiable demand for U.S. dollars

US Dollar Slump Incoming: Bank of America Sees ‘Death Cross’ as Confidence in Gold Rises

9.7.2020
The US dollar is increasingly being viewed in a negative light by investors. Bank of America analysts are seeing a “Death Cross,” a bearish technical formation suggesting that a period of dollar weakness is coming. Meanwhile, confidence in gold has been rising. Investors Losing...

Centre Obliges Government Request, Freezes Address With $100,000 USDC

9.7.2020
Centre Consortium has blacklisted an ethereum address holding $100,000 in USDC, a move that the entity says was “in response to a request from law enforcement.” A joint venture between Circle and Coinbase, Centre is the issuer of the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin, which runs on...