2018-11-5 05:15 |
The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, is looking to clamp down on airdrops – free distributions of crypto tokens.
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The Bank of Lithuania will start the sale of LBCOIN, a digital collector’s coin, on July 9. Based on the NEM Blockchain, users will be able to trade tokens for a physical silver coin once they have collected each of the six unique tokens available in the entire 24,000 collection.
2020-7-9 17:47 | |
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The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is looking to clamp down on airdrops – free distributions of crypto tokens. On Friday PBoC released its financial stability report for 2018, where the the bank said that “disguised” initial coin offerings (ICOs) including airdrops continue to grow in number, despite its previous efforts at cracking down on […]
2018-11-5 09:44 | |
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Tether Limited is back in the news; this time, it has confirmed a banking relationship with a financial institution based out of the Bahamas. The issuer of the controversial USD-pegged stablecoin tether (USDT) announced its partnership with Bahamas-based Deltec Bank & Trust Limited.
2018-11-2 00:27 | |
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Swissquote, a provider of online financial and trading services in Switzerland, has announced that its clients can now participate in initial coin offerings through its platform. The Swiss bank takes care of both the execution and the custody of tokens.
2018-10-24 10:15 | |
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Online Swiss bank Swissquote announced the launch of its ICO offering, becoming the first bank worldwide to allow customers to buy tokens issued within an initial coin offering (ICO) supported by the Swissquote platform.
2018-10-22 23:05 | |
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Fresh on the market, the industry’s newest batch of stablecoins is having trouble striking a price balance. Amidst news of listings on Huobi and OKEx, two of the industry’s largest exchanges, TrueUSD (TUSD), Gemini USD (GUSD), the Paxos Standard (PAX) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) have all risen well above their pegs.
2018-10-17 01:17 | |
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The use of digital currency in payments for goods and services has hit various hurdles as was seen with LitePay closing as did FuzeX recently delaying the launch of their highly anticipated debit cards.
2018-10-12 23:00 | |
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Nouriel Roubini, an economist best known for his predictions of the 2008 housing bubble, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, testified before the U.
2018-10-12 18:06 | |
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The latest crypto investment fund on the block is Dragonfly Ventures, a $100 million traditional venture fund investing only in crypto assets, managed by partners Alexander Pack from Bain Capital Ventures and Bo Feng, founding partner of Ceyuan Ventures.
2018-10-9 15:30 | |
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Traditional venture capitalist (VC) investments are leveraging the decline in initial coin offerings (ICO) as the cryptocurrency industry tries to find bearing amid regulatory shifts and losses across the crypto markets.
2018-10-3 19:39 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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Boston-based cryptocurrency finance firm Circle has just joined the multitudes of other crypto exchange platforms now issuing and trading their own stablecoins. As of September 26, 2018, dollar-pegged USDC is now trading on Poloniex, the crypto-to-crypto exchange Circle acquired in February 2018, and on Circle Trade, the company’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform.
2018-9-27 20:50 | |
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Civic, a digital identity firm, has collaborated with Brave, the privacy-based browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, to provide identity verification services to Brave’s content creators.
2018-9-25 00:58 | |
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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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Damien Pang, head of the Technology Infrastructure Office at Singapore's central bank talks about the authority's insight on DTL and digital tokens.
2018-9-20 06:06 | |
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Damien Pang, head of the Technology Infrastructure Office at Singapore's central bank talks about the authority's insight on DTL and digital tokens.
2018-9-19 06:06 | |
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The largest bank of Saudi Arabia entered into a partnership with the San Francisco-based company Ripple. Fueled by this announcement, XRP tokens increased in price by 22%.
2018-9-19 23:19 | |
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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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FXcoin Ltd. , a Japanese cryptocurrency startup which was founded by a Deutsche Bank AG veteran brought on Yasuo Matsuda as a senior cryptocurrency strategist. This signals another development in the space between traditional finance and cryptocurrencies to attract more people to fintech.
2018-9-5 17:00 | |
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Union Bank AG, a bank in Liechtenstein that offers corporate banking services mainly to companies based in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Middle East, has announced that it will be launching its own security tokens in alignment with Liechtenstein’s regulatory authority, FMA, and subsequently its cryptocurrency, “Union Bank payment coin,” which is fully backed by […] The post Liechtenstein Bank to Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency Backed by the Swiss Franc appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-8-24 00:45 | |
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Leichtenstein’s Union Bank announced in a press release that they will be launching their own security token and that it will be followed by a Union Bank Payment Coin (UBPC) crypto token. Union Bank is Leichtenstein’s full licensed bank that becomes the first to issue its own crypto tokens.
2018-8-24 21:38 | |
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The Bank of Thailand (BOT) are the next central bank to weigh in on the cryptocurrency debate, and it looks to be good news this time. Sort of anyway. BOT want to develop a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), a cryptocurrency that will be issued by the bank and regulated by the bank.
2018-8-22 17:30 | |
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It is true that there are many advantages associated with the use of cryptocurrencies and crypto tokens over the traditional bank noted that are issued by a countries Central Bank. Some of them which includes speed of transactions, lower cost of transactions, lower documentations, comfort of transactions location, environmental protection since it is paperless and […] The post Factors hindering the wider Adoption of Cryptocurrency appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-8-21 10:52 | |
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The tiny country Liechtenstein appears to be quickly cultivating status as one of blockchain’s hottest frontiers, with Union Bank AG announcing it will become the world’s first fully regulated bank to launch its own security token and fiat-backed stable coin.
2018-8-20 17:00 | |
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BANKEX, a leading global fintech company, has recently listed its BKX token on cryptocurrency exchange Changelly. Now BKX tokens can be purchased with any Visa or Mastercard bank card and... The post Press Release: BANKEX Token Listed on Changelly appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-8-16 13:08 | |
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An Abu Dhabi resident is facing the prospect of having to repay more than $160,000 in bank debt after his cryptocurrency investment went awry. The story is another testament to the significant risks involved in virtual currency trading due to the volatile nature of the market.
2018-8-15 23:02 | |
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This past week, we talked to three security experts about how to design smarter and more secure smart contracts. Google is dipping its toe in the blockchain waters by introducing integrations for applications built with Ethereum and Hyperledger.
2018-8-5 16:08 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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Europen Union Study shows central banks coming together with their own digital currencies, i.e., CBDCs could mean an end of the journey for the decentralized digital tokens. The post EU Study: Central Bank Digital Currencies Will Reshape Crypto Markets And Limit Competiton appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-7-23 16:26 | |
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The Ukraine is taking massive leaps to legalize cryptocurrency. There’s a new regulatory concept that recognizes tokens as financial instruments (as well as coins). The new concept won the support of high-up members in the Financial Stability Council of the country.
2018-7-21 12:32 | |
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Ukraine has taken a positive step towards legalizing cryptocurrencies. A new regulatory concept, one that recognizes coins and tokens as financial instruments, has won support from the members of the country’s Financial Stability Council.
2018-7-21 02:10 | |
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Vitalik Buterin believes Ethereum’s upcoming plasma implementation could make ERC20 central bank digital currencies viable. We’ll discuss which governments have considered these sovereign tokens and whether Plasma could, in fact, make Ethereum a good fit.
2018-7-14 01:54 | |
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Vitalik Buterin believes Ethereum’s upcoming plasma implementation could make ERC20 central bank digital currencies viable. We’ll discuss which governments have considered these sovereign tokens and whether Plasma could, in fact, make Ethereum a good fit.
2018-7-14 01:54 | |
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The primary provider of fiat backed digital tokens, Tether, has brought on a Leonardo Real, the former AML quality control manager at the Bank of Montreal, as Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). The hire was reportedly made “in order to create the gold standard for regulatory compliance” in the cryptocurrency sector.
2018-7-13 12:40 | |
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Economy & Regulation A draft ordinance aiming to regulate the issuance of “electronic money” has been presented in Romania. While it does not specifically mention cryptocurrencies, some of its definitions and provisions can affect digital coins and tokens.
2018-7-7 07:11 | |
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In late 2009, Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto ushered in a groundbreaking approach to money by championing a digital payment system free from third-party intermediaries and governmental control.
2018-7-9 19:37 | |
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In late 2009, Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto ushered in a groundbreaking approach to money by championing a digital payment system free from third-party intermediaries and governmental control.
2018-7-5 19:37 | |
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Qiwi has strengthened its position as the largest e-payments service provider in Russia, after launching the country’s first crypto investment Bank, HASH. Keying into the booming crypto market, HASH will provide advice to investors and also help interested companies to convert their assets to tokens.
2018-6-30 19:15 | |
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The user case application of Ripple and their products are diverse. That’s why despite XRP being an optional product and with 100 billion in circulation, their current valuation is “fair” if not better considering the number of total coins minted.
2018-6-27 03:02 | |
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Bitcoin is “fascinating” but “inefficient,” Australia’s central bank has claimed as both it and neighboring New Zealand take a hands-off approach to their own tokens
2018-6-26 15:34 | |
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USD Tether, the stablecoin which reportedly has 1:1 USD backing through reserve banking, has just printed 250 million USDT tokens. This may be indicative of a deposit of $250 million in USD Tether’s bank accounts.
2018-6-26 13:30 | |
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To get rid of allegations over Tether not having the funds to back their tokens, Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan LLP, a law firm, released a report which confirmed Tether's bank deposits and assured investors that its cryptocurrency is backed by USD.
2018-6-22 13:42 | |
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The bank accounts will not be named due to privacy concerns, Hoegner notes, adding that the firm had access to banks statements and employees, as well as contact with Tether executives. The cryptocurrency again fell under scrutiny from the crypto community in the wake of dissolving their connection with an auditor before the official audit
2018-6-21 23:37 | |
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Tether Ltd. , which issues a stable coin allegedly tied to U. S. dollar reserves, claims it has hired Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan LLP — a law firm co-founded by FBI Director Louis Freeh — to confirm its bank deposits and assure investors that its cryptocurrency is backed by USD.
2018-6-21 23:05 | |
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Two of Tether’s bank accounts have enough USD to back its token issuance, says a law firm founded by a former FBI director
2018-6-20 18:55 | |
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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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New Alchemy and Entoro Capital today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to offer an integrated solution for blockchain securities. Entoro’s technology-enabled investment bank and broker-dealer combined with New Alchemy’s blockchain technology and advisory services will offer a step change in issuing tokens in a regulated securities environment.
2018-6-14 04:46 | |
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New Alchemy and Entoro Capital have announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to offer an integrated solution for blockchain securities. Entoro’s technology-enabled investment bank and broker-dealer, combined with New Alchemy’s blockchain technology and advisory services, will offer a step change in issuing tokens in a regulated securities environment. The partnership will leverage
2018-6-14 04:45 | |
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