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Custody Provider Copper Joins Think Tank to Bridge Gap Between Traditional Finance and Crypto

11.6.2020
Crypto custodian Copper is joining the Official Monetary and Financial Institution Forum's new think tank to discuss how central banks are evaluating digital currencies

Ghana’s Central Bank Confirms It’s Still Looking to Pilot a Digital Currency

10.6.2020
The Bank of Ghana’s first deputy governor says the institution remains committed to piloting a central bank digital currency

Data Shows Bitcoin Options Markets Are Maturing Much Faster Than Futures

10.6.2020
Data from the crypto analytical firm Skew.com shows that bitcoin options are maturing much faster than the futures markets launched in December 2017. Skew’s data shows that the open interest in bitcoin options has risen significantly in the last few months. Bitcoin options “are starting...

Marshall Islands Seeks to Establish a "Self-Sovereign Identity" With New Blockchain-Based Currency

6.6.2020
Joel Telpner reveals some of the steps the Marshall Islands is taking to launch its national digital currency

Bitcoin Has Been the Best Currency Investment for Over 1,200 Years

5.6.2020
Although not designed as an investment vehicle, Bitcoin’s rise in value has made it the best currency investment you could have made in the last 1,200 years

The Mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto Allegedly Leveraged a Russian Proxy for Communications

5.6.2020
4,171 days ago in 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto invoked the Bitcoin network after sharing the white paper with people since Halloween 2008. Just recently, it has been discovered that Nakamoto leveraged a Russian proxy to obfuscate his whereabouts and the inventor used the proxy back in January 2009....

Fed Paper: Central Bank Digital Currencies Could Replace Commercial Banks – But at a Cost

5.6.2020
The research explores how "central banking for all" via digital currency could affect commercial banks

Barry Silbert

5.6.2020
Barry Silbert is the founder of venture firm Digital Currency Group (DCG), crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments and illiquid assets marketplace SecondMarket. Silbert founded SecondMarket in 2004, where he created the Bitcoin Investment Trust, wholly devoted to bitcoin and the first investment...

Japanese Finance Minister Shoots Down Plan to Cut Bitcoin Tax to 20%, Cites Crypto-Divide

4.6.2020
Japan’s finance minister Taro Aso says he is opposed to reducing tax on bitcoin income to 20%, on par with stock dividends, arguing that most Japanese households find it difficult to invest in digital assets. The development suggests that Japan will uphold its current definition...

Crypto Firm Uquid Launches Marketplace- 30,000 Digital Products, Bitcoin Cash Support

1.6.2020
On May 28, 2020, the digital currency and blockchain company Uquid has announced that the Uquid Shop is now live and accepting cryptocurrencies like bitcoin cash for payments. The team at Uquid has dubbed the market the “world’s biggest digital shop for crypto users is ready to launch...

Can a USD Digital Token Help Save the Primacy of Standard Currency?

28.5.2020
What in your opinion is Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies? Many, in common parlance, will answer that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency is digital and virtual money. While, on the other hand, Treasury Secretary Steven Munchin with others at the US Senate this week pointed at the future of the US Dollar....

Private Firms Can Boost Central Bank Digital Currencies, IMF Official Says

26.5.2020
Synthetic CBDCs could let the private sector manage digital currencies backed by central banks, says the IMF's Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli

Market Outlook: Golden Cross Invalidated, Andreessen Horowitz Predicts ‘Fourth Crypto Cycle’

24.5.2020
The price of bitcoin and a number of other popular cryptocurrencies have been collectively holding a market valuation of around $255 billion. The fiat value of these cryptocurrencies has slipped downwards during the last four days. Despite the weekly losses of around 3-6%, many digital currency...

Carl Menger: The Nature and Origin of Money

23.5.2020
In the early stages of trade, when economizing individuals are only slowly awakening to knowledge of the economic gains that can be derived from exploitation of existing exchange opportunities, their attention is, in keeping with the simplicity of all cultural beginnings, directed only to the most...

Iranian President Calls for Launching a Cryptocurrency Mining Strategy

23.5.2020
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called for a mining strategy throughout the oil-rich nation. The latest statements from the Iranian President follows Iran’s moves to restrict specific crypto trading platforms over “currency smuggling” mandates. On May 20, 2020, Iran’s...