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China and Japan go full steam ahead with CBDC pilots
26.3.2021
Asia’s largest economies are pushing forward with their respective CBDC trials, with six Chinese banks offering digital wallets and Japan establishing a new committee
Jamaica Plans to Pilot a Central Bank Crypto, CBDC to Work Alongside Notes and Coinage
26.3.2021
While a number of countries are working on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), on Tuesday, the Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) announced it will soon be piloting a CBDC project. The BoJ is working with a firm called Ecurrency Mint Incorporated and plans to pilot the cryptocurrency in May. Jamaican CBDC...
Taraxa Listing on AsecendEX
25.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans, has announced the listing of Taraxa tokens (TARA) under the pair USDT/TARA on Mar 23 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. Taraxa is a public ledger platform purpose-built for audit...
Microsoft President Says the World Is Best Served When Currencies Are Issued and Backed by Governments
25.3.2021
Microsoft President Brad Smith says that “The world is best served when currencies are issued, backed by and regulated by governments.” He further emphasized that he is not a fan of encouraging the private sector to issue digital currencies. Microsoft’s President Says Currency...
Kim Dotcom Insists ‘Bitcoin Cash Will Serve the Mass Market,’ Criticizes BTC Fees, Elon Musk Responds
25.3.2021
On Wednesday, the digital entrepreneur Kim Dotcom took to Twitter and talked an awful lot about the stark differences between bitcoin fees and bitcoin cash fees. While tagging Tesla’s Elon Musk in the thread, Dotcom explained that more than half the payments in the world are under $10 and...
European Central Bank tries to quell Germans' doubts about digital euro
25.3.2021
A future digital euro wouldn't be a threat to savers, say officials from the European Central Bank
Metaco partners with IBM for secure digital asset orchestration system
25.3.2021
Metaco will use IBM Cloud to provide robust security-critical technology for institutional investors entering the digital asset space
Twitch's Latest Sensation Is A Stop Sign Where No One Stops
24.3.2021
A blue car pulls up to a stop sign. Against all odds, it briefly, miraculously comes to a halt. Twitch chat goes ballistic. Numerous people spam “I was here” as pogchamp emotes flood in. This is Stopsigncam, a Twitch channel that suddenly has over 125,000 followers even though it’s just a camera...
Marshall Islands digital currency would 'raise risks,' says IMF
24.3.2021
Thanks to COVID measures, the local economy may not recover until 2022
Microsoft president says fintechs should leave currency to central banks
24.3.2021
Microsoft president Brad Smith is not keen on the idea of technology companies issuing private stablecoins
Digital Yuan Won’t Be Fully Anonymous but Offers ‘Controllable’ Privacy Protection, Says Official
24.3.2021
Privacy has been a discussion that has not gone unnoticed when it comes to the forthcoming launch of the digital yuan. The head of the People’s Bank of China-run Digital Currency Research Institute had firmly pointed out that anonymity cannot be guaranteed at all. Feature Seeks to Avoid...
Livestream Of Boulder Mass Shooting Raises Questions About What YouTube And Twitch Should Allow
24.3.2021
Yesterday, a shooter opened fire at the King Soopers store in Boulder, Colorado and killed 10 people. Not long after the attack, a streamer, Dean Schiller, arrived on the scene and broadcast to an audience that topped out at nearly 30,000 concurrent viewers. The resulting video has been viewed over...
Hut 8 Joins Foundry’s US Mining Pool, Adds Over 14,000 Bitcoin Mining Rigs of Hashpower
23.3.2021
On Tuesday, the firm Hut 8 Mining Corp., announced that it is joining the Foundry U.S.-based mining pool. The publicly-listed mining company said that it added 14,400 machines to Foundry’s mining operation and it also plans to deploy another 5,000 miners by August. Hut 8 Joins Foundry’s...
BitMax Relaunches as AscendEx
23.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. BitMax.io, a leading crypto and digital asset trading platform serving professional and retail traders, has announced that it has relaunched as AscendEx in the English-speaking world, and “Dingfeng” to Chinese speakers. Originally launched in 2018, the trading venue...
Liliana Vess, Noted Magic: The Gathering Girlboss, Now Teaches Kids At Strixhaven
23.3.2021
As the Kaldheim cycle comes to a close, Wizards of the Coast has started to tease cards from Strixhaven, Magic: The Gathering’s forthcoming magical academy-themed set. I don’t pay too much attention to card teases, preferring—somewhat unwisely—to go into a new set completely unaware of what might...
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer Says Gold Let Him Down, Put 5% in Bitcoin
23.3.2021
Mad Money host Jim Cramer, a long-term gold proponent, says that gold has let him down. He has become more bullish on bitcoin, advising investors to put 5% of their portfolios in the cryptocurrency to protect their assets. Jim Cramer Reduces Gold Holdings, Increases Bitcoin Allocation In...
Magic: Legends Open Beta Is Go
23.3.2021
Cryptic Studios’ free-to-play Magic: The Gathering-meets-Diablo action card-playing game has launched into open beta via Arc Games and the Epic Games Store, giving players all over the world the chance to play the game Kotaku’s Ash Parrish said several nice things about. Read more
American News Magazine Time to Accept Crypto for Subscriptions, Firm Auctions 3 NFT Covers
23.3.2021
The American news magazine Time has revealed it is getting into the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, as a new job listing shows the 98-year-old publication is in search of a chief financial officer (CFO) who understands bitcoin. Additionally, Time will be selling non-fungible token (NFT) assets...
Now is the Time to Get Your Business Protected from Cyberthreats (Sponsored)
23.3.2021
Malware has been a problem for decades, one that was exacerbated by the the rise of the internet, file sharing, and digital assets. Whether it’s keyloggers or other types of malware, they’ll make your computer slow and insecure, all without you knowing. And if you’re an employer...
Tokenized Jack Dorsey Tweet Sells for $2.9M, Funds From NFT Auction Will Be Sent to Charity
23.3.2021
On Monday, Jack Dorsey the founder of Twitter and Square witnessed a digital certificate or non-fungible token (NFT) of his first tweet being sold for $2.9 million. The new owner of the NFT Jack Dorsey tweet is the CEO of Bridge Oracle, Sina Estavi, who outbid the founder of Tron Justin Sun for...