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In a European first, the ConsenSys-backed Monerium has received approval to run fiat over a blockchain as a regulated form of payment. origin »
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The recent bull run exhibited by Bitcoin [BTC] and altcoins stunned cryptocurrency traders as well as institutional investors. Bitcoin’s [BTC] valuation has always been a subject of wild guesses and predictions.
2019-6-1 00:30 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has spent most of the day wiping proverbial egg off its face today as it emerged that the latest run of A$50 notes it has printed has a rather embarrassing typo on them.
2019-5-10 00:00 | |
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Several users have posted about being unable to withdraw their funds from the platform, and not ever receiving their… The post Bitfinex “Bank Run”, Users Can’t Withdraw FIAT – Is The Collapse Coming? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-8 10:15 | |
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We have already seen how the fiat currencies around the world, be it Argentina’s peso, Venezuelan Bolivar or Turkish Lira, are failing as a currency. Countries all over the world are being run over by rising inflation and dropping value of their money, along with slowing economy and political unrest. It isn’t surprising South America […]
2019-4-28 20:40 | |
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By CCN: Alexei Navalny, who attempted to run for president against Vladimir Putin and continues to be a viable Putin opponent, has raised over $3 million since he began taking Bitcoin donations in 2016.
2019-4-25 19:38 | |
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Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.
2019-4-23 17:42 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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Bitfinex is now open to every trader as the Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange has removed its $10,000 minimum balance rule. Citing a rising demand from retail traders who couldn't trade on the platform due to the requirement, Bitfinex CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde said the platform is now ready for a “new wave of customer accounts,” according to a company Medium post.
2019-4-11 21:50 | |
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Vladislav Ginko, semi-famous for making lots of people in the crypto space believe that Russia was going to buy a massive amount of Bitcoin, took to Twitter recently to tell us all that the standard market capitalization metrics and “pricing in fiat” makes no sense.
2019-4-9 21:02 | |
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The popular cryptocurrency analyst and CNBC host Ran NeuNer asked his nearly 100k Twitter followers which digital asset they’d invest in if given $50k. More than 20k respondents answered and Ripple’s XRP was the crypto of choice.
2019-4-5 11:33 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published an investment contract framework for digital assets, which is intended to give crypto companies guidance as to whether a cryptocurrency is a security.
2019-4-4 22:02 | |
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At the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong’s Lightning Hack Day on March 31, 2019, Bitcoin developer Felix Weis presented a successful demonstration of his Lightning-enabled plugin for a Bitcoin ATM.
2019-4-2 22:02 | |
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Crypto Cards On The Edge Of A Cliff Says CEO Cryptocurrency debit card companies are few and far between, but early entry will help in the long run say companies that are battling for acceptance. The crypto payment game is riddled with problems, with regulatory hurdles being the main stumbling block. Fiat currency has taken […]
2019-3-28 20:57 | |
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“The biggest problem I could think of was distribution. How do you share and educate both consumers and merchants on the power of bitcoin? I learned how much consumers loved earning and why merchants make decisions to adopt new technology.
2019-3-19 23:06 | |
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By design, Tether (USDT) is a refuge for crypto traders seeking security in exchanges supporting the stable coin. Expected to have a 1:1 fiat—crypto peg, the recent change in wording is a cause of doubt and may trigger a run, a sell off as capital flow to Bitcoin.
2019-3-14 16:20 | |
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Cryptocurrency mobile wallet provider BRD wants to accelerate its international expansion, and it has secured $15 million to do it. The Series B funding round was raised from SBI Crypto Investment, a subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings.
2019-1-26 20:04 | |
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Decentralized exchange Bisq has upgraded its software with an entirely new User Interface (UI) design and the launch of the Bisq Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) on testnet.
2019-1-9 21:05 | |
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Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles has run into trouble in the Japanese legal system, and prosecutors are pursuing a 10-year jail sentence for alleged embezzlement during his tenure at Mt.
2018-12-13 21:15 | |
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Chinese-based cryptomining firm Bitmain is shutting down the operations of Bitmaintech Israel, its research and development (R&D) center in Ra'anana, Israel, according to reports from local news outlet Globes.
2018-12-10 20:51 | |
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Blockchain-based social media platform Steemit Inc. , the company behind popular open source website Steemit. com, has announced a structural reorganization which will entail laying off 70 percent of its workforce as it looks for new ways to cut costs and remain sustainable as a business.
2018-11-29 22:53 | |
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After a bearish year of perennial price swings that culminated in months of tightly wound sideways movement, the (former) bottom has dropped out for bitcoin and the wider crypto market.
2018-11-28 21:44 | |
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The UK Believes In Bitcoin –Says YouGov’s Survey of UK Residents Even though Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have had a bad run this year, there are people who still have faith in the crypto coin, and think of it as a good alternative to the UK’s present fiat currency. This was shown in a YouGov […]
2018-11-9 21:54 | |
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As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency.
2018-11-1 23:35 | |
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Betting on an impending crypto bull run, a number of prominent investors have recently thrown mounds of capital at promising cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. Canada’s very-own Kevin O’Leary, once a controversial prime minister candidate, has jumped on the bandwagon, investing a large sum of fiat in up and coming crypto application.
2018-10-25 12:00 | |
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Utility billing and payment services provider Novatti is launching a new Australian dollar (AUD)-backed stablecoin known as the Novatti AUD Utility Token on the Stellar Network.
2018-10-25 20:58 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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Cryptocurrency–Along with the security offered through blockchain projects and the improved efficiency of digital payments, one of the core features of cryptocurrency has always been in the decentralized governance of the technology.
2018-10-18 06:51 | |
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The popular digital currency exchange, Bitfinex has reportedly stopped its USD deposits to their exchange. This news comes after last weeks, several rumours that the exchange was broke which made management forced to step up and deny the rumours that they were not bankrupt.
2018-10-11 21:30 | |
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The stability of Bitcoin has always been a bit shaky, however, over the past month or so, the leading crypto has been surprisingly… still. If you asked anyone earlier in the year why Bitcoin could never replace fiat currencies the first reason would most likely be due to its volatility and stability.
2018-10-9 15:30 | |
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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Following a successful launch in California only a few months ago, the U. S. branch of cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin is adding five new coins to its listings. Those coins include Ripple (XRP), Cardano (ADA), Stellar lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC) and 0x (ZRX).
2018-9-20 16:49 | |
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Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances.
2018-9-15 21:50 | |
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University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account.
2018-9-13 18:07 | |
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Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar. New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).
2018-9-11 01:58 | |
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Square Inc., a mobile payment processing startup founded and run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has hit another milestone by winning a U.S. patent for a digital currency payment network. The license will allow merchants to accept both fiat and cryptocurrency payments and then cash out in any currency of their choice. The San Francisco-based […]
2018-9-4 21:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency market may have experienced a flat run over the course of 2018 thus far with Bitcoin prices failing to break through the $10,000 barrier since early March, but new research published by ING demonstrates that adoption rates are rising rapidly.
2018-9-2 15:00 | |
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ConsenSys, the Ethereum production studio based in the U. S. , launched ConsenSys Ventures last year selecting Kavita Gupta to run two funds of $50 million and $100 million.
2018-8-6 17:40 | |
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Canada-based Rivemont Crypto Fund, run by a portfolio management firm Rivemont Investments, holds around 91 percent of its $2. 3 million of assets in fiat currency, with only 9 percent in Bitcoin (BTC), Bloomberg reported July 17.
2018-7-18 02:56 | |
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Stronghold, a cryptocurrency trading platform housed by Stellar, is launching a stablecoin on its parent network’s blockchain in collaboration with IBM. Stronghold USD will be backed with “one-to-one U.
2018-7-18 22:00 | |
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There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether, a cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U. S. dollar. According to Tether, each Tether token is backed by one U.
2018-6-14 22:01 | |
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CryptoNinjas » Alkemi adds Monerium euro token to its stablecoin DeFi offering Alkemi, a permissioned liquidity pool platform where users can borrow/lend on 5 core DeFi markets, today announced a new partnership with Monerium, a regulated European-based electronic money institution.
Monerium, which has a European Economic Area e-money license, will bring fiat currency transactions onto Algorand's protocol.
Iceland's financial watchdog, FME (Financial Supervisory Authority), has legalized the use of cryptocurrency in payments following Monerium approval. The post Breakthrough In Iceland, Electronic Money (Crypto) Now Legal appeared first on Ethereum World News.
Служба финансово-бюджетного надзора Исландии (FME) предоставила лицензию на выпуск электронных денег созданному в 2015 году блокчейн-стартапу Monerium из Рейкьявика. Таким образом, в мире появятся первые выпущенные на блокчейне Ethereum с помощью смарт-контракта электронные деньги, обращение которых в Евросоюзе будет регулироваться наравне с банковскими платежами.