2020-12-4 19:55 |
A Swiss experiment on how central bank money can be linked to markets built on distributed ledger technology (DLT) yielded positive results.
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Responding to Larry Summers at Consensus: Distributed this week, Michael Casey argues that money needs more privacy, not less, and that, ultimately, our rights as financial citizens are at stake.
2020-5-16 20:10 | |
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During Consensus: Distributed, CoinDesk is raising money for COVID-19 relief using an innovative method called quadratic funding.
2020-5-12 21:51 | |
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Western Union, one of the world’s most recognized money transfer services, has discreetly piloted Ripple’s distributed ledger technology and is mulling using it for its remittance services. This is according to equity research conducted by Credit Suisse dated January 24, 2020.
2020-4-14 23:10 | |
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SBI Remit a money transfer service that’s powered by Ripple has announced a partnership with Japan-based Fukushima Bank. The bank will now be in charge of SBI’s international remittance services. SBI’s commitment to prioritizing the adoption of new technologies is evident as they have already adopted Ripple’s distributed ledgers. This according to them will make […]
2020-2-28 17:14 | |
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Ripple, the cross-border payment network powered by distributed ledger technology (DLT), today announced a new partnership with European digital money transfer service Azimo. The company has launched with Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service as part of its remittance capabilities into The Philippines, with plans to expand the use of ODL across more corridors this year.
2020-2-27 17:28 | |
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Japan’s second-biggest banking institution has teamed up with SBI Holdings to develop a financial service platform that will be based on blockchain, Japanese based Nikkei reports. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is set to deposit money in Japanese financial conglomerate in efforts to enhance the utilization of distributed ledger technology (DLT) within the trade finance […]
2020-1-31 02:12 | |
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A lot of news has come out of Ripple and its partners lately. SBI Ripple Asia is preparing to launch a money transfer service between Japan and Vietnam. In the announcement, it’s mentioned how this new payment corridor will make use of distributed ledger technology.
2019-11-16 05:00 | |
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SBI Ripple Asia and SBI Remit, an international money transfer service, announced the launch of the first Japan-Vietnam money transfer service in real currency using the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) with the Vietnamese bank, TPBank on Nov.
2019-11-15 23:12 | |
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Some villains who distributed the Sodinokibi Ransomware earn a tremendous amount of money illegally by conning victims to pay a requested bitcoin price into their wallets. Researchers from McAfee tracked some covered information, only to find out that one distributor of the ransomware made an equivalent of $287,499 Bitcoins in 3 days. The analysts further […]
2019-10-15 18:31 | |
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Criminals who distributed the Sodinokibi ransomware threat earned a huge payday from victims who paid the requested Bitcoin ransom. According to researchers at McAfee, who tracked down several posts published on underground forums, one particular distributor made the equivalent of $287,499 in Bitcoin in just 72 hours.
2019-10-14 17:00 | |
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BLive, the streaming platform created by BitTorrent, is set to be launched this week. The platform will go live on September 20. According to the company, 20,000 TRX tokens will be distributed on the day of the launch.
2019-9-18 20:29 | |
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In this series on Bitcoin and money, Crypto Briefing takes a deep dive into the complexities of the modern monetary system and how Bitcoin, as the ultimate hard money, can serve as a solution to many of its problems.
2019-9-16 19:10 | |
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One of the world’s largest asset management companies, Franklin Templeton, has announced they will run a government debt fund that records the ownership of units in the fund on the Stellar Lumens blockchain, September 3, 2019.
2019-9-4 17:00 | |
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The jury is still out on dApps. Despite dApp stores, smart contracting platforms, launchpads, and distributed storage solutions soaking up vast amounts of ICO money before the tide went out on that fundraising model, they’ve yet to achieve critical mass within the cryptosphere, let alone mainstream society.
2019-8-30 20:39 | |
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remittancetoken. io – Token-Generating Platform for Money Transfer currently trading on Digifinex has announced it's sponsoring blockchain Finance Lagos conference event in Africa's largest market, Nigeria.
2019-8-12 12:30 | |
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Hackster and the IOTA Foundation have teamed up to launch an exciting new contest called Machine Money: Empowering Devices with Wallets with $3,000 worth of prizes being awarded. The contest revolves around integrating a new distributed ledger technology called IOTA into an Internet of Things [IoT] device so that any device has the ability to […] The post Hackster and the IOTA Foundation have joined hands appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-8-8 09:45 | |
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pukkamex is he world’s first leveraged cryptocurrency derivative trading platform that shares its revenue with its token holders. Easy to use for the beginner and powerful enough for the most experienced trader.
2019-6-30 20:33 | |
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In a bid to make it impossible for fraudsters to use stolen cards to withdraw money at automated teller machine (ATM) points, ShoCard, a mobile blockchain-powered digital identity platform has developed an identity management solution that combines biometric and distributed ledger technology (DLT).
2019-6-26 15:00 | |
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Facebook has outlined the economics of its new Libra cryptocurrency, revealing it will create a secondary token intended specifically to pay dividends to early backers. It’s called the Libra Investment Token, and it will only be available to members of the Libra Association (which maintains the network) and other accredited investors.
2019-6-18 13:52 | |
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By CCN: The Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania has spoken about the merits of central bank digital currencies. He has labeled them as a new, more efficient, offering from central banks across the globe.
2019-5-31 10:40 | |
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While the Crypto Winter may be lingering with us into the spring, crypto exchanges are doing just fine. According to CoinMarketCap, there are now 255 major crypto exchanges.
2019-5-4 22:14 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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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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It’s been a long and winding road with many twists and turns for the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX and its 115,000 former users who are owed roughly $190 million.
2019-4-10 17:39 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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Prominent British historian and author of ‘The Ascent of Money,’ Niall Ferguson, has retracted the pessimistic assertions that he had previously made with regards to the prospective utilities for Bitcoin and distributed ledger technology.
2019-3-11 09:45 | |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) https://www.eccb-centralbank.org, the central bank for the Eastern Caribbean dollar, has announced its set to launch a pilot for a distributed ledger technology (DLT) powered central bank digital currency and could proceed to adopt it as a legal tender in 2020 if all goes as planned, according to reports on […]
2019-3-6 23:19 | |
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R3, the distributed ledger technology company for enterprise blockchain solutions, is partnering with Instimatch Global, an intraday/money market solution… The post Instimatch Global Is Testing R3’s Corda Settler Platform Using Ripple’s XRP appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-2-20 03:38 | |
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R3, the distributed ledger technology company for enterprise blockchain solutions, is partnering with Instimatch Global, an intraday/money market solution… The post Instimatch Global Is Testing R3’s Corda Settler Platform Using XRP appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-2-20 03:38 | |
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Contrary to popular belief, Satoshi was not the first one to come up with the idea of a Distributed Ledger Technology [DLT]. However, his white-paper and the resultant Blockchain has certainly made many sit up and take notice.
2019-2-18 22:17 | |
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REMCO Software, creators of a distributed utility token-generating platform for money transfer has announced an agreement to list its token on crypto asset exchange, LATOKEN, through a licensed broker.
2019-2-12 23:20 | |
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Four leading crypto-exchanges in South Korea including Bithumb, Corbit, Upbit and Coinone have joined forces to fight against cryptocurrency-powered money laundering activities, reported The Korea Herald on January 28, 2019.
2019-1-29 12:00 | |
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Wibx is the utility token that will revolutionize the exchange relationships between brands and consumers, transforming social networks users into digital influencers. Wibx is the native token and the mean of exchange of the WiBOO platform, a sophisticated and well-structured ecosystem that offers new perspectives for the conventional marketing strategy models, such as sales activation and customer loyalty, using the blockchain technology and artificial intelligence (AI).
2019-1-29 07:03 | |
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Central governments often prohibit the circulation of regional ‘certificates,’ bills or other forms of money, arguing that these can devolve control over national monetary systems. At the same time, authorities are often unaware of the economic effects of introducing local currencies.
2019-1-25 18:44 | |
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Iconiq Lab Holding Gets Seven-Figure Funding From VC Firms Iconiq Lab Holding GmbH has received seven-figure funding from FinLab AG and High-Tech Grunderfonds III GmbH & Co. KG. The majority of the funds will go towards the improvement of the Iconiq Asset-Management-as-a-Service (AMaaS) solution.
2019-1-23 20:22 | |
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A Switzerland-based non profit organization called Distributed Technologies Research (DTR) announced a cryptocurrency called Unit-e this past week. In a press release published on January 17, DTR described Unit-e as a “globally scalable decentralized payments network” and a “killer application” for blockchain.
2019-1-18 22:42 | |
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CoinSpeaker Case for Universal Basic Income Gains Strength as Recession Fears Deepen As the markets remain volatile and financial uncertainty looms, projects like GoodDollar, that is experimenting how decentralised cryptocurrencies and blockchain tech may enable UBI-based models, could revolutionise how money is distributed at scale.
2019-1-17 15:05 | |
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WinWinCoin gambling solution with decentralized Jackpot What do we offer? As mentioned above, we have a full understanding of current problems in the gambling industry and that is why we offer an effective solution in the form of decentralized anonymous currency WinWinCoin which will save players from limits, fees, make money transfers faster and all wallets and transactions anonymous which will allow avoid territorial and legislative restrictions.
2019-1-5 21:09 | |
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The early Bitcoin community in San Francisco was originally comprised of revolutionaries: Individuals who believed in the freedom and opportunity that a permissionless distributed system would bring the world.
2019-1-4 00:06 | |
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On December 4, 2018, our CEO, David Bailey, made an exciting announcement: Bitcoin Magazine would be returning to its roots and shifting its focus to Bitcoin-related stories only.
2019-1-3 07:24 | |
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Bitcoin — the cryptocurrency that started it all — was released in 2009 as open-source software by a person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The idea was to create a peer-to-peer electronic currency that didn’t rely on any central authority or intermediary for validating the exchange of money.
2018-12-28 12:00 | |
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INTRODUCTION We want to build an exchange website known as Bittrader where many coins will be listed and the main pair will be the TRD Coin. Similar to Binance, some of the notable features of Bittrader include strong security, privacy, and untraceable features.
2018-12-11 09:03 | |
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As chairman and co-founder of the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF), Nydia Zhang has left a solid mark on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, though, as a young art student at the University of Washington in 2011, blockchain was far from the direction she saw her life taking.
2018-12-6 18:13 | |
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Having met the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2018, officials of VanEck, SolidX and Cboe BZX Exchange have met with the Commission again, in the latest attempt to convince the regulator to approve the nation's first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to an official presentation submitted to the SEC.
2018-12-1 01:17 | |
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On November 16, 2018, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a public statement clarifying its intent to regulate activities involving the issuance and trading of digital assets.
2018-11-21 01:44 | |
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In the world of cryptocurrency, airdrops allow anyone in the world to obtain some potentially valuable tokens as more time progresses. In the case of the following six airdrops, there is somewhat decent money to be made in exchange for minimal effort.
2018-11-13 07:54 | |
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Tokyo-based insurance company Sompo Holdings has partnered with BitPesa to promote digitization of its international remittance service. The news comes weeks after another Japanese player, money transfer firm SBI Remit, teamed up with the blockchain company to bring distributed ledger to transactions between Japan and African countries.
2018-11-13 03:00 | |
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The financial markets are worth trillions of dollars. They also encompass more than just stocks and currencies. There is a whole market of alternative investments worth well over $15 trillion. This money is distributed across more than 10,000 assets, so there are a lot of investment options to choose from. Unfortunately, this market is closed […]
2018-11-6 07:07 | |
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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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Opinion: From Brazil to Norway, there is plenty of evidence that governments are planning to use CBDCs to abuse their people.
Unpacking the Incoherence and Hubris of Modern Monetary Theory and Its Intersection with CBDCs and Bitcoin
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand opened a new consultation period on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) on April 17. The current stage of development seeks input on “high-level design options for digital cash.
Swiss National Bank (SNB) Chairman Thomas Jordan said the central bank “sees no need” to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for public use despite the benefits of a wholesale version.
SWIFT said on March 25 that it discovered several applications for its central bank digital currency (CBDC) solution following a successful six-month test. The company did not create its own CBDC but instead developed an interlinking solution for existing CBDCs — dubbed the SWIFT connector.
In a recent meeting with the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Piero Cipollone, a member of the ECB Executive Board, discussed the forthcoming digital euro, specifically its privacy features, infrastructure procurement, and operational standards.
Swiss banks, Cantons of Basel-City, and Zurich have successfully issued digital bonds using real CHF wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) on SIX Digital Exchange (SDX). This marks the first-ever issuance of this kind, leveraging the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) wCBDC.