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Maduro Opens Crypto Casino in Venezuela

20.1.2020
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has authorized the opening of a casino at a luxury hotel in Caracas where bets must be placed in petros, the country’s national oil-backed digital currency. Several cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies can be exchanged into petros to wager in...

Will Cryptocurrencies Disrupt the Use of Fiat Currencies?

19.1.2020
Many strategists from the cryptocurrency community have spent years of researches and have come up with a prediction that cryptocurrencies will disrupt the use of fiat currencies in the coming future. However, this prediction is combated by other strategists who have nulled this prediction...

China Issues Digital Currency Guide for Party Cadres

14.1.2020
Understanding a complex subject should be easier with access to educational materials. With blockchain and CBDC now part of Beijing’s political vocabulary, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has issued a guide to digital currencies meant to prepare party officials for upcoming changes in...

Eastern Europe Sees More Fiat Options for Trading Crypto

12.1.2020
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe, a diverse region sometimes referred to as the ‘Second World,’ are at different stages of their economic development and political integration with the EU or other supranational organizations. Having less established traditional sectors...

ECB’s Lagarde: We Want to Develop Digital Currencies but Won’t Discourage Private Initiatives

8.1.2020
Lagarde said the ECB will continue researching CBDCs and will not stand in the way of any private initiatives

Digital Currencies Won’t Replace US Dollar Any Time Soon: IMF Chief Economist

7.1.2020
Digital currencies do not yet meet the criteria to become a viable alternative to the greenback, according to the IMF's Gita Gopinath

Telegram Rejects SEC Request to Hand Over Bank Records for TON

5.1.2020
Telegram Group, the company behind the TON blockchain project, has reportedly refused to share information with the SEC showing how much it spent of the $1.7 billion raised from investors in the past couple of years and where. In a recent court filing, the securities regulator alleges that Telegram...

Ticker Tool Uses the BCH Blockchain to Provide Reliable Rate Data

3.1.2020
Instantly verifiable, unhackable and forever retrievable are some of the key features of information stored on a blockchain. These are also the characteristics that traders of various assets, commodities and currencies would appreciate when it comes to the price data they are using. The team behind...

Binance Debuts Euro Pairs as CZ Says 180 Fiat Currencies Set for 2020

3.1.2020
Binance CEO pledges to “bring crypto to the masses” as euro trading goes live on the main platform

MARKETS DAILY: Central Bank Digital Currencies and US Dollar Dominance in 2020

2.1.2020
With 2019 vanishing in the rear view mirror, Markets Daily is back for an insightful look into the trends that are already shaping this new decade

Binance Aims to Support 180 Fiat Currencies in 2020

2.1.2020
Source: Instagram, Binance In an attempt to "bring crypto to the masses," major cryptocurrency exchange Binance aims to enable fiat-to-crypto trading for "180+ fiat currencies," Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the company, said speaking of their goals for 2020. Binance.com has added support for 19 fiat...

Central Bank Digital Currencies: 4 Questions and Answers

1.1.2020
Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli is a Deputy Division Chief in the same Department. ____ Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) is a complex and multidisciplinary topic...

Harsh Laws Make Bitcoin Holders Consider Renunciation or Dual Citizenship

28.12.2019
As digital currencies become a mainstay in society, a great number of governments have enforced strict tax guidelines, severe money transmission rules, and tough regulations. Because of a few nation-states’ harsh rules against cryptos, there are individuals who plan to renounce their...

The Bahamas Will Launch a Digital Currency Pilot Tomorrow

26.12.2019
A new “digital fiat currency” for the Bahamas could turn the island nation in to a crypto testbed

Meltem Demirors on Government Digital Currencies and Why ‘The Halvening’ Gets Weird

24.12.2019
Why the narrative of 2019 was the emergencies of Central Bank Digital Currencies and why the halvening won’t go as people expect

Getting In and Out of the Cryptocurrency Economy Can Be Costly

24.12.2019
Since bitcoin and digital currencies have become popular, fiat on and off-ramps have sprung up that allow investors to enter and exit the cryptoconomy. However, many of the entryways into cryptocurrency markets have a hefty fee between 1-4% of the overall purchase and in order to obtain fiat...

Plustoken Cash-Outs Could Be Behind BTC Price Drop, Says Report

17.12.2019
On Monday, the blockchain surveillance company Chainalysis published an excerpt from the firm’s upcoming crime report that will publish in January. According to the Chainalysis research, the Ponzi scheme called Plustoken not only defrauded investors out of $3 billion but the scam “may...