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Is China Poised to Nationalize Alibaba?
12.1.2021
The International Business Times reports China might nationalize Alibaba. Here’s what that has to do with China’s digital currency efforts
Cointelegraph predictions for the first 5 CBDCs of 2021-2022
11.1.2021
2021 & 2022 touted to be the most important years for the development of CBDCs
The EURST Stablecoin Set the Path That Major Central Banks Now Want to Follow
8.1.2021
From Asia to Europe, major central banks all around the world are expected to announce their own digital currencies soon. This is vindication that stablecoins like EURST are on the right path forward, and they can serve to show how national economies should reinvent themselves following the current...
Swedish Bankers Air Concerns Over E-Krona Digital Currency Plan
5.1.2021
While the Riksbank appears keen to launch the e-krona, bankers are worried about how the digital currency might affect their industry
LCX Exchange Gets Licensed in Liechtenstein to Help Banks Create Their Own Digital Assets
5.1.2021
LCX has been granted eight out of the 11 crypto-related licenses in Liechtenstein
Ukraine Government Picks Stellar to Help Build National Digital Currency
4.1.2021
The Stellar Development Foundation's work with Ukraine's government to digitize the hryvnia will officially launch this month
Shenzhen to Double Digital Yuan Giveaway in China’s Latest Lottery Test
4.1.2021
The latest digital currency giveaway is aimed to gauge user experience ahead of an expected launch
Crypto Dollars and CBDCs: The Battle to Come
31.12.2020
The future of money will be a tussle between algorythmic and fiat-pegged stablecoins and central bank digital currency experiments
CBDCs: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
30.12.2020
Almost 50 monetary authorities and central banks are researching and developing wholesale or retail CBDCs. What does 2021 hold in store?
Cryptonews Rewind 2020: Q2 - Bitcoin Halving, CBDCs, And Hacks
29.12.2020
Here is what happened in the Cryptoworld in the second quarter of this year:
Total crypto market capitalization in Q1
April
The second quarter of 2020 started with halvings and pre-halving events.
As the Bitcoin (BTC) halving was approaching, miners were putting pressure on the BTC price,...
Charting Asia’s Dominant FinTech Frontier
28.12.2020
Asia looks poised to continue its trajectory towards digital dominance, says the co-founder of Zilliqa
That Decoupling Sound: China, the US and a Year of CBDCs
28.12.2020
This year China and the U.S. faced off over trade and technology bans. But the battler for monetary hegemony has only just begun
Did CBDCs affect the crypto space in 2020, and what’s next in 2021? Experts answer
27.12.2020
CBDCs are one of the major topics in crypto this year, and the experts that Cointelegraph spoke to have a lot to say about it
2021 Trends in CBDCs: More Pilots, Maybe Some Launches, But Not For Retail
27.12.2020
The more the price of bitcoin (BTC) rises, the more institutions and corporations become interested in this most popular cryptocurrency. However, the same relationship doesn’t seem to hold for central banks and governments: instead, the more the price of bitcoin rises, the more central banks...
Expert Warns CBDCs Won’t Carry the Same Advantages as Bitcoin
25.12.2020
A leading Russian academic has told Moscow what many in the crypto world have been thinking for a very long time – that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) like the so-called digital ruble will not provide many of the advantages of a cryptoasset like bitcoin (BTC).
Speaking in an interview with...
China’s crypto landscape: How CBDCs drove blockchain adoption in 2020
19.12.2020
As a developing tech power, China is one of the fastest countries in adopting blockchain technology
If Traditional Finance Moves to CBDCs, 2 Scenarios Open for DeFi - INDX CEO
17.12.2020
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Traditional finance can't escape decentralized finance (DeFi). The former's move into digital currencies is bound to impact both, producing two main possible scenarios, according to Jonathan DeCarteret, CEO of tokenized crypto fund INDX Capital.
DeFi is light years...
The Great Reset Agenda: ‘Bitcoin Is a Decentralized and Rational Strategy to Opt-Out’
15.12.2020
Every single day the conversation about the Great Reset continues to amplify. More recently, mainstream media publications have been publishing rebuttals in response to the many skeptics of this agenda who believe the reboot propaganda is meant to install a new world order. The American broadcaster...
Ex-People’s Bank Chief Says Digital Yuan Not Planned to Replace Global Currencies
14.12.2020
"We are not like Libra and we don’t have an ambition to replace existing currencies,” said a former governor of the People's Bank of China
SDX Chief Gets Philosophical About Crypto’s Swiss-Singapore Connection
11.12.2020
The crypto corridor connecting Switzerland and Singapore is firming up, involving many of the usual suspects in banking, custody and trading