Facebook’s Libra is a Better Option than PayPal but not a ‘Liberating’ Currency Like Bitcoin: Forbes

2019-10-11 19:12

The CEO of OptDyn, Alex Karasulu, stated that Libra is not a liberating currency like other cryptocurrencies, but it’s still a much better version than Paypal. The blockchain currency, Libra, operates a bit different from other blockchain currencies.

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People’s Bank of China to Onboard Six Technology Wizards in Helping Launch Its Digital Currency

The Chinese central bank, known as the People’s Bank of China, has recently put up a recruitment notice on its official site. According to the job post, the state bank is looking for six tech experts who have a lot of experience with blockchain technology. Most of the people hired are set to work on […]

2019-10-12 02:52	Blockchain Technology
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Russia Remains Crypto-Aware but Doesn’t see the need for a National Digital Currency

President of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, believes there is no immediate need for Russia to explore launching a sovereign digital currency. Despite having studied and researched these topics, the central bank doesn’t believe there are any obvious benefits to the economy, as reported by TASS, October 10, 2019 Happy With Current Monetary RegimeRead MoreRead More.

2019-10-11 21:00	Russia
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CoinField becomes Ripple’s verified validator; hints at upcoming XRPL project

CoinField, the digital currency trading platform, made news after it was announced that its XRP Validator is now officially part of the leading blockchain firm Ripple’s Unique Node List [UNL] trusted list.

2019-10-11 17:00
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Vanguard Joins Nasdaq-backed Symbiont for Blockchain Platform for Currency Trades

Coinspeaker Vanguard Joins Nasdaq-backed Symbiont for Blockchain Platform for Currency TradesBy leveraging the blockchain-powered peer-to-peer trading for investors, Vanguard plans to allow asset managers to trade currencies without involving banks as intermediaries.

2019-10-10 12:51
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Vanguard to Create a Blockchain Platform with Symbiont for $6 Trillion Forex Market

Vanguard, a mutual fund giant of the financial industry, has started a partnership with Symbiont, a company backed by Nasdaq Ventures. Together, these two firms are set to develop a $6 trillion currency market platform focused on forex trades.

2019-10-10 01:26	Announcements
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Vanguard Developing Blockchain Platform for $6 Trillion Forex Market

Mutual fund giant Vanguard has partnered with Nasdaq Ventures-backed blockchain startup Symbiont to develop a currency trading platform.

2019-10-10 16:00
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Switzerland: National Bank and BIS consider blockchain-based currency

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) signed an agreement on October 8. They agree to dedicate two innovation hubs to blockchain technology. In focus: a digital central bank currency.

2019-10-9 15:29	Crypto Journal
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Experts Weigh In On The Future of Bitcoin and Blockchain

Bitcoin is a revolutionary new technology that has taken the world by storm, and could not only disrupt modern financial systems, but it could also go on to replace all fiat currencies and become the sole digital currency used across the globe.

2019-10-9 23:00
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U.K Financial Watchdog Increases Scrutiny on Cryptocurrency Exchanges

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the U. K’s financial regulator, has increased its investigations on cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the country. According to a report by the Financial Times on October 6, 2019, the regulator is intent on fishing out fraudulent virtual currency exchanges.

2019-10-8 11:00	United Kingdom
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Foreign Exchange Giant CLS Admits: No, We Don’t Need a Blockchain for That

Forex giant CLS is now using a blockchain to handle certain currency trades, but the technology is “not essential” for the task, an executive admits.

2019-10-8 11:00
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Freelanex ICO

Freelanex is a decentralized platform which provides an environmental system on Blockchain. It represents a unique opportunity for approaching bargains by using a decentralized System with smart contracts, through an interface user friendly.

2019-10-6 09:48
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Facebook could tap cryptocurrency exchanges to build their Libra dreams

The Libra ordeal is unlike any other. A social media giant, at the firm center of Silicon Valley, begins working on a digital currency in complete secrecy. Not only is an area in Menlo Park cordoned off for the project, but Facebook slowly begins picking off people from technology, finance and blockchain companies to build […] The post Facebook could tap cryptocurrency exchanges to build their Libra dreams appeared first on AMBCrypto.

2019-10-5 18:00	paypal
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Bitcoin and blockchain make headway as Malta signs MoU with European countries

For quite some time now, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been one of the frequently discussed topics among the regulators. This could be attributed to various reasons: rise in interest in cryptocurrencies, launch of Libra, and institutions venturing into the digital currency space.

2019-10-4 01:30	Trading View
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IKEA Agrees to Pay Invoice Using ConsenSys-Backed E-Money Provider

After making a purchase through IKEA Iceland, Nordic Store settled the e-invoice through smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. However, the transaction was paid using Iceland’s fiat currency, the Krona, and not crypto.

2019-10-3 18:53
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Thaler Crypto Foundation ICO

Thaler is a bridge creator between our community and large investors. The idea of crypto mass education will lead our token to mass adoption. Thaler is a peer-to-peer digital currency that encourages growth within the blockchain technology community.

2019-10-3 18:03
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Global Currency Organization Launches U.S. Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin USDD

In a bid to bridge the gap between traditional and decentralized finance, the Global Currency Organization (GCO) on October 1, 2019, announced the launch of a new U. S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, USD Digital (USDD).

2019-10-2 13:06
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Stablecoin Tether (USDT) Surpasses Bitcoin as most Traded Digital Currency

The world’s most widely used cryptocurrency is Tether (USDT) and not Bitcoin (BTC), this according to a BNN Bloomberg report published October 1, 2019. Citing data from the cryptocurrency analytics website CoinMarketCap.

2019-10-1 20:00	USDT
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UTRUST Adds DASH Cryptocurrency Support for Online Gaming Platform, Whow Games

In a bid to bring digital currency payments to the mainstream, UTRUST, a fintech startup, has integrated support for DASH cryptocurrency to provide safe and secure payment options to the nine million registered users of web gaming platform Whow Games.

2019-10-1 21:00
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Madrid To Create Digital Currency Payment Platform For The Public Transportation System

The Municipal Transport Company of Madrid is currently planning a partnership with a company called Vottun to create a blockchain platform that would allow the company’s citizens to use digital currency to pay for bus and train services in the city.

2019-9-30 19:39	Payments & Merchants
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China: Digital Currency Experiments and Research to be Headed by Shenzhen

Shenzhen will be the testing grounds for China’s fascinating digital currency ambitions, this according to a central government document. As reported by Beloit Bulletin, September 30, People’s Bank of China (PBoC) plans to launch a significant research effort pertaining to the development of China’s national digital currency and others with hopes of fostering significant urbanRead MoreRead More.

2019-9-30 19:00
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Libra exec promises Facebook’s plan isn’t to replace existing currencies

The Libra Association really wants us to know that Facebook cryptocurrency is not being created to replace existing currencies. Manager Director Bertrand Perez, speaking at a blockchain conference hosted at the United Nation headquarters in Geneva today, said: “We are not in the area of implementing any monetary policy with the (Libra) Reserve.

2019-9-27 14:06	hard fork
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How to think about the future of digital currency

It’s a common trope that cryptocurrency, digital currency, or digital assets are “disrupting the financial industry” and will usher in a new future of financial inclusion. That’s all well and good, but how can we imagine this future? If you’re interested in tackling questions like this, join us next month at Hard Fork Summit, TNW’s dedicated blockchain and cryptocurrency event.

2019-9-27 13:07	hard fork
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Former Fed Official Refutes BoE Governor’s Suggestion to End Dollar Dominance

Ex Federal Reserve senior official, Simon Potter, has rebutted against Mark Carney’s recent suggestion to introduce a digital currency to be used as the global reserve currency for international settlement.

2019-9-26 19:00	UK
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U.S. Accounting Firm H&R Block Offers Cryptocurrency Tax Consulting

H&R Block, a New York Stock Exchange-listed global consumer tax services provider, on September 24, 2019, announced the launch of a new consumer service that would aid people engaging in digital currency transactions correctly file their crypto gains and losses with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

2019-9-26 21:00	United States
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Bitcoin Cash now Available on Luno

Luno, the blockchain-based digital currency firm with a presence across the world, announced the integration of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) into their platform, this according to news published by thenews. asia on September 25, 2019.

2019-9-25 14:29	Wallet
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Blockchain Analytics Firm Flipside Crypto Secures $7.1 Million to Study Tokens Economics

A data analytics firm called Flipside Crypto has recently been able to get around $7. 1 million USD during its latest investment round. Companies such as the Digital Currency Group and Coinbase Ventures participated in the round, however, the round was led by Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital.

2019-9-25 21:40
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China Avoids Rushing the Launch of its Central Bank Digital Currency

Chinese officials have confirmed that they have no timetable in place for the launch of their central bank digital currency (CBDC). This comes just weeks after a formal announcement by the PBoC that a launch is being scheduled by year-end.

2019-9-25 17:00	Libra
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Accountancy Firm BKL to Accept Bitcoin to Settle Invoices

In a major development for cryptocurrency adoption, Cambridge-based accountancy firm BKL announced on September 23, 2019, that it would be accepting bitcoin (BTC) as fee payment to settle invoices. BKL Embraces Digital Money Spearheading the digital currency adoption race in the U.

2019-9-24 12:43	Digital Currency
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Bitharp’s Newest Cryptocurrency Miners are a Resounding Success

New Zealand-based cryptocurrency mining equipment manufacturer Bitharp on September 22, 2019, stated that its two newly released crypto mining rigs – Lyre Miner and Harp Miner – are becoming increasingly popular in terms of return on investment among both, seasoned and amateur digital currency miners.

2019-9-23 11:00	New Zealand
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Top 3 Cryptocurrency Blockchain-based Games You Must Check Out

Cryptocurrency gaming, aka blockchain gaming is a new development style for online games. These games are actually dApps hosted mostly on either the Ethereum or EOS blockchains. The benefit of crypto games is that items, characters, currency, accounts, an all other aspects of the game are hardcoded into a global public blockchain.

2019-9-23 15:46
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North Korea Developing own Cryptocurrency to Circumvent U.S. Sanctions

North Korea is hatching plans to develop its own cryptocurrency. Though the project is in its early stages, the digital currency is being designed to function like bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and would enable the nation to circumvent crippling international sanctions, reports VICE on September 18, 2019.

2019-9-20 19:00	sanctions
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Germany Passes Bill to Block Parallel Currency

Germany approved a comprehensive blockchain strategy to ban the creation of stablecoins or other assets that work as parallel currencies.

2019-9-18 13:13	News
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4 Countries That Really Don't Like Facebook's Crypto Libra

Governments around the world went on high alert after American social media giant Facebook announced a permissioned blockchain digital currency, named Libra. Unsurprisingly, the prospect of a privately-backed alternative digital currency didn't exactly excite financial regulators in North America, Europe, and Asia.

2019-9-18 11:37	United States
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France: Crypto-to-Crypto Transactions Tax-Exempt Unless Traded for Fiat

France has welcomed cryptocurrency investments by announcing that crypto to crypto transactions will be tax-exempt, and necessary taxes will be applied only when selling crypto for fiat currency. According to Bloomberg Tax, France will also introduce a value-added tax (VAT) for transactions where crypto is directly used to purchase goods and services, September 12, 2019.

2019-9-13 17:00	Regulation
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Jeffery Epsteins Connection with MITs Digital Currency Initiative Raises Industry Concerns

The MIT Digital Currency Initiative is well known in the cryptocurrency space for spearheading a lot of early research in analysis. The man who set it up, Joichi Ito, recently resigned as it was revealed that he had ties to deceased financier and convict, Jeffrey Epstein.

2019-9-13 09:00	Regulation
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Bitcoin is more traceable than fiat currency, claims MIT-IBM funded report

Bitcoin’s immutable transparency and anonymity, while enabling a gateway for uncensored transactions, allows analysts to identify unique trends within the ecosystem. Given the ongoing war between crypto-adoption and regulatory requirements, blockchain analysis company Elliptic published an MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab-funded paper to detect various anomalies around illegal Bitcoin transactions.

2019-9-13 03:53	Trading View
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China’s Digital Currency and Libra to Bring Significant Benefits for Financial Inclusion and Blockchain Tech

Coinspeaker China’s Digital Currency and Libra to Bring Significant Benefits for Financial Inclusion and Blockchain TechBoth Facebook and the People’s Bank of China, have announced their digital currencies and are looking to release them to the public as soon possible.

2019-9-12 16:22	PBoC
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China is Already a Digital Economy, so why Introduce a Central Bank Digital Currency?

China has been trending away from cash and toward digital payments for quite some time now. In 2018, 3. 8 quadrillion yuan was remitted using plastic cards, cheques, electronic transfers, and other formal methods.

2019-9-11 13:16	PBoC
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VanEck Bitcoin Trust Fails to Capture Assets and Attention

Almost six days after the launch of VanEck’s structured bitcoin investment product for institutions, it has only managed to raise $41,000 or four bitcoin, September 9, 2019. Bitcoin ETFs have been a focal point of the investment scenario around digital currency, so to see such a poor response from institutional investors is surprising.

2019-9-11 19:00	VanEck
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Nasdaq bullish on crypto and blockchain as stock giant adds Decentralised Finance Index

The second largest stock exchange in the world is emerging as one of the decentralized currency industry’s biggest supporters. Nasdaq, the New York-based stock exchange, is set to add a new index dedicated to projects that surround the blockchain and decentralized finance ecosystem.

2019-9-10 17:30	Nasdaq
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Tether (USDT) Launches Digital Yuan Before PBoC

Controversial firm Tether Limited has announced that it is expanding its list of stablecoins by launching an offshore yuan-backed digital currency. Tether Continues its March The Hong Kong company said in a short blog post that the new stablecoin, known as CNHT, would be pegged one-to-one to the offshore Chinese yuan.

2019-9-10 00:15	Tether
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Gold-Based Cryptocurrency to Go Live in the UAE

Golden M Group, a firm based in the United Arab Emirates has announced plans to launch Coin M, a gold-backed, distributed ledger technology (DLT) powered virtual currency that would enable high income as well as low income level investors to purchase the crypto asset and double their investment within a year, reports Arabian Business onRead MoreRead More.

2019-9-9 19:00	U.A.E.
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China Confirms its CBDC is Similar to Facebooks Libra

China’s upcoming digital currency is reportedly going to be very similar to Libra in terms of network design, but it will take a more holistic approach to find harmony between money-laundering prevention and anonymous payments.

2019-9-7 09:00	PBoC
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Improving Ethereum’s DeFi Stack With Decentralized Mixers

For cryptocurrency to become sound money, it needs to integrate a degree of privacy on a transactional level, just as paper currency does. Bitcoin and Ethereum, both, lack strong privacy measures, but this is being addressed.

2019-9-6 09:00
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Fantasy NFL Platform Partners with BitPay to Enable Bitcoin Payments

The start of the new National Football League (NFL) season in the United States will see fantasy players able to use bitcoin to subscribe for their sports app, according to a press release by BitPay.

2019-9-6 01:00	sports
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Prospects and advantages of cryptocurrency trading in virtual reality

If you think that virtual reality is something that relates exclusively to the field of games and entertainment, then you are deeply mistaken. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2025, the VR industry will grow up to $ 80 billion.

2019-9-5 13:23	News
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Marshall Islands: Government to Issue SOV State-Backed Crypto

David Paul, Minister of Assistance to the President of the Marshall Islands in an essay on September 4, 2019, revealed that the Marshall Islands is on the verge of issuing its blockchain-based sovereign currency dubbed Marshallese sovereign (SOV).

2019-9-5 11:00
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The Marshall Islands Decides to Go Crypto Issuing its Own Cryptocurrency

Coinspeaker The Marshall Islands Decides to Go Crypto Issuing its Own CryptocurrencyThe Marshall Islands have decided to issue their cryptocurrency. Formerly, the pacific Nation had used the US Dollar solely as currency.

2019-9-5 10:44
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Bitmark Receives $3 Million Investment Led by HTC Alibaba

Property rights firm Bitmark has closed a $3 million Series A round of investment led by HTC and Alibaba amongst others. As per a press release, September 3, 2019, the freshly raised money will be used to fund sales and marketing efforts for the company.

2019-9-5 01:00
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Thailand Threatens to Ban Facebook Over Crypto Scams and Dodgy Ads

Thailand's Digital Economy and Society Ministry plans to request a court order to shut down Facebook in the country, citing the platform's failure to prevent cryptocurrency scams and fraudulent ads.

Elon Musk suggests fight with Zuckerberg to stream on X

Elon Musk says his “bout” with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg should be streamed on X. Chancer is expected to disrupt the traditional bookmaker with a new betting model. $CHANCER presale has surpassed the $1 million mark amid huge investor interest.

Bitcoin Ordinals and IPFS leveraged by AI community to resist Facebook takedowns

After reports started circulating that Facebook is taking down software repositories involving its leaked artificial intelligence (AI) model LLaMA, pseudonymous AI software developer Coctail Peanut developed a Bitcoin Ordinals and Bittorrent-based uncensorable software repository system.

Meta to end support for NFTs on Facebook and Instagram

Key takeaways Meta is ending support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook. The company introduced the NFT feature roughly a year ago. Meta said it would focus on other ways to support businesses and creators.

Gamium token price jumps 450% after sealing deals with Telefonica and Meta

Gamium is a metaverse project. It provides users with a digital identity to use across the internet, blockchains, and the metaverse. The project has today announced partnerships with Meta and Telefonica.

Meta’s NFT expansion begins with Instagram NFT integration

Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, has begun its non-fungible token expansion across 100 countries in… The post Meta’s NFT expansion begins with Instagram NFT integration appeared first on CoinJournal.

Meta signals closure of Novi wallet after a 10-month pilot

Meta’s wallet pilot Novi is set to end in September, with the announcement coming days after Mark Zuckerberg touts Meta Pay on Facebook.

2019-10-11 19:12

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