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Covid-19 Stimulus: Banks Will Gain $18 Billion in Fees for Processing PPP Relief Loans
15.7.2020
The world’s banking cartel will gather $18 billion in fees for facilitating the settlement of small business Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) relief loans leveraged during the Covid-19 pandemic. The $640 billion in PPP relief loans stem from the CARES Act and allegedly there’s only...
World Bank Investigates Smart Contracts as Financial Tools, With Mixed Results
13.7.2020
The World Bank has looked at the benefits of smart contracts and found the blockchain instruments to be a "limited" financial tool
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
Renato Rodriguez Pushes To Unite And Spread Crypto In Every Corner Of The World
9.7.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
Today, blockchain networks and cryptos allow people to transact directly without having to go through a centralized institution. With blockchain, retailers are able to bypass conventional financial systems...
$1.4M in Bitcoin Transactions: New High for Argentina as Confidence in the Peso Tanks
9.7.2020
Crisis laden Argentina saw bitcoin transactions worth $1.4 million (101 million pesos) being recorded in the past week, a new high for the country. According to a report by Vorem, this figure is nearly double the previous high of $0.96 million recorded in the last week of June. Citizens who have...
Chinese Power Giant & World’s 5th Biggest Company in Blockchain Dive
9.7.2020
The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the largest utility company in the world, says it will launch a blockchain “lab” – in a bid to adopt blockchain technology to its business workings and internal operations.
The SGCC is headquartered in Beijing, has around 1 million employees...
Digital Yuan Set for Real-world Ride Sharing Pilot with Apple-backed Didi
8.7.2020
China’s digital yuan launch appears to be inching yet closer to rollout after reports in the Middle Kingdom surfaced linking a ride-share operator with pilots for the new central bank-run token.
Per Beijing Business Today and Bloomberg, a digital currency unit of the central People’s Bank of China...
IAMAI to Host World’s Largest Virtual Global Fintech Fest
8.7.2020
New Delhi, July 01, 2020: Internet and Mobile Association of India [IAMAI], and its sister organizations, Payments Council of India, [PCI] and Fintech Convergence Council [FCC] are jointly organizing the two-day virtual Global FinTech Festival on July 22-23, 2020. The Department of Economic Affairs...
Bootstrap 5
7.7.2020
It’s always notable when the world biggest CSS framework goes up a major version (it’s in alpha now).
It has dropped jQuery and IE, started using some CSS custom properties, gone fully customized with form elements, started to embrace utility classes, and includes a massive icon...
World’s Largest Pension Fund Lost the Equivalent of Bitcoin’s Entire Market Cap in Just Three Months
6.7.2020
The world’s largest pension fund posted a first-quarter loss of $165 billion, which is equivalent to the Bitcoin’s entire market capitalization
John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
4.7.2020
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government,...
The Most Famous Financial Pyramids in the Crypto World
4.7.2020
Crypto itself has only been around for a decade, and the space has already gained its top Ponzi scheme actors. Here are three of them
Settling down in a Jamstack world
3.7.2020
One of the things I like about Jamstack is that it’s just a philosophy. It’s not particularly prescriptive about how you go about it. To me, the only real requirement is that it’s based on static (CDN-backed) hosting. You can use whatever tooling you like. Those tools, though...
There Are More DAI on Compound Now Than There Are DAI in the World
3.7.2020
The amount of DAI deposited on Compound skyrocketed by more than $140 million on Thursday – somehow exceeding the total amount of DAI in existence
Bitcoin Analyst: Central Bank Rate Cuts Mean ‘World Has Gone Zimbabwe’
1.7.2020
Zimbabwe-style mayhem is a possible outcome from a flood of cheap money hitting the global economy, warns MMCrypto
Have Cryptocurrencies Ruined or Improved the World of Sports Betting?
30.6.2020
The text below is an advertorial article that was not written by Cryptonews.com journalists.
Photo: iStock-Marc Bruxelle
Due to the high popularity and boom that cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, have gained in the last few years, many operators are in the field of sports betting. In the online...
World’s Biggest Mining Firm Makes First Ore Trade on a Blockchain
29.6.2020
BHP has completed its first trial trade transaction of iron ore with China's Baosteel using blockchain technology
How Global Stablecoins Can Promote Financial Stability in the World
27.6.2020
Global stablecoins could provide market participants with a cost-efficient means to rebalance their capital across global markets
Some Typography Links
25.6.2020
I just can’t stop opening excellent typography-related articles, which means I need to subject you to blog posts that round them up so I can clean up my open tabs.
Vistaserve is “a grass-roots web hosting initiative hailing from Thornbury, Australia. Inspired by the quirky web of...
Financial Inclusion, Cryptocurrency and the Developing World
25.6.2020
Regions of the world with fast-growing economic potential and young populations, such as India and Africa, will become leaders in crypto adoption