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An investment strategist of Mauldin Economics states that Bitcoin indeed bears a serious threat for banks, saying that BTC will ultimately pushing them out of business
2019-9-18 15:43 | |
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York very quietly handed out $75 billion in cash to the banks on Wednesday in a process known as a ‘repurchase operation,’ or repo. This emergency measure hasn’t been used at scale for a decade, since the last financial crisis.
2019-9-18 12:41 | |
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The US Department of Justice has charged three JP Morgan commodity traders with market manipulation. Rackets such as this from the world’s largest banks give more strength to bitcoin every day they get exposed.
2019-9-17 12:13 | |
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The arguments as to why bitcoin is superior to the banking system are pretty clear cut to anyone that has used it. A decade ago BTC was conceived to cut out the fatcat middlemen and allow people to transact between themselves.
2019-9-12 15:30 | |
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Tokensoft announced that it had developed a tool that would help transfer agents abide by the securities requirement. They are creating software to assist banks, trust entities, and other companies to manage tokens easily on behalf of the companies that issues them.
2019-9-10 20:39 | |
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At Hard Fork, we report on the latest blockchain and cryptocurrency news. Over the past year, we’ve seen more legitimate companies and banks launching blockchain projects than ever before. With its potential on the rise, it’s an interesting time to find out what’s next.
2019-9-6 17:31 | |
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The steady growth of the cryptocurrency market has caught the attention of a lot of major tech giants, including the likes of Facebook, JP Morgan and now, Telegram. Out of these, Facebook’s Libra remains the most talked-about project, not only owing to its huge user base, but also due to the several hearings which have […] The post Libra’s dependence on governments, central banks is its biggest weakness, claims eToro CEO appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-9-4 17:30 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! If you ask any tech reviewer about top camera phones out there, almost every one of them will mention Google’s Pixel 3.
2019-9-3 14:18 | |
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By CCN Markets: North Korea (DPRK) is sniffing out angry flames after getting accused of siphoning $2 billion from banks and bitcoin exchanges. The communist state denied having any links with the high-profile thefts.
2019-9-2 13:20 | |
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Major economic oppression and manipulation by governments and central banks is what drove a band of cypherpunks to create Bitcoin a decade ago. That financial storm is worsening which has generated an even greater need for a decentralized form of money.
2019-8-30 13:00 | |
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The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will roll out China’s sovereign digital currency, DC/EP, as early as November this year, distributing it to seven institutions including Alibaba, Tencent, and the four largest banks in the world, two separate sources told Forbes.
2019-8-28 13:10 | |
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The Winklevoss ‘crypto twins’ have pointed out that Wall Street and banks have failed to predict and prevent the appearance of Bitcoin on the global market
2019-8-26 15:04 | |
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Ever listened to This American Life, the mother of all storytelling podcasts? If not, you should. If yes, you know it’s a weekly podcast that runs about an hour per episode. It’s made by a team of about 20 people.
2019-8-26 14:12 | |
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Financial regulators all around the world have been cracking down hard on ICOs for promising more than they can deliver. At the same time governments and central banks are pulling off far worse scams, such as QE, wiping out the savings of everyone that depends on them.
2019-8-23 19:21 | |
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As many as 70,000 people could be facing financial ruin as a massive crackdown sweeps across Ghana’s banking system. It serves as yet another stark warning that governments and banks are in full control of people’s money.
2019-8-20 18:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: There’s nothing like a bank run to bring out the bitcoin-fever dreamers. Hong Kong protesters reportedly tried the tactic in their latest effort to stop what they see as unfair practices of their government.
2019-8-18 15:30 | |
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Bitcoin’s falling prices for the past few days has alarmed the “recent introduced” masses across the globe, while tempting hodlers who believe “it’s never a bad time to invest in Bitcoin.
2019-8-15 15:00 | |
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Crypto startups are hitting a snag when it comes to Israeli banks.
2019-8-9 00:30 | |
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The U. S Federal Reserve seems to have taken the challenge posed by cryptocurrency when it comes to faster payments. It has just announced it will be developing a faster payment system, FedNow, that will enable much faster payment between American Banks.
2019-8-6 20:59 | |
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Libra isn't the only payment system that stands to threaten the banks. Popular stock market and crypto trading app Robinhood is going after legacy banks with the relaunch of a cash management feature.
2019-7-22 02:30 | |
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PointPay is creating a fundamentally new product that combines three services in a single closed-loop ecosystem: PointPay Crypto Bank, PointPay Crypto Exchange platform and PointPay Multi-currency Wallet.
2019-7-18 11:03 | |
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The world of cryptocurrencies has been working towards mainstream adoption for a long time now. However, rejection by major financial institutions has always been a problem. Institutions like banks have tried to use cryptocurrencies’ underlying technology, blockchain.
2019-7-13 15:30 | |
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Bitcoin was born during the perfect storm of economic recession, declining trust in banks and financial institutions, and political unrest. There was definitely skepticism when Bitcoin took off owing to its links to the darknet.
2019-7-12 20:00 | |
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Bitcoin started out in the underbelly of economic recession and bailing out failing banks. Its journey began with the sole intention to overcome the centralized control and to build a better financial system.
2019-6-30 14:30 | |
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Emerging from the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Bitcoin promised an alternative to bailing out central banks. But all too often, Bitcoiners have found themselves paying for the mistakes of crypto exchanges, which continue to get hacked.
2019-6-30 22:00 | |
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The IMF says central banks are interested in digital currencies, and several countries may join Uruguay in testing out CBDCs soon
2019-6-30 03:14 | |
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We all know that banks make it difficult for blockchain businesses by denying them access to conventional banking services and accounts. Well now, it seems insurance firms are throwing a spanner in the works for cryptocurrency mining businesses in Africa.
2019-6-13 13:41 | |
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Ripple has been making some groundbreaking movements to gain more coverage and acceptance for its native token XRP. Recently it launched out in Switzerland with a new office for the purpose of selling XRP to institutional investors.
2019-6-6 22:14 | |
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Banks have begun showing an increasing interest in alternative solutions for overseas transfers. A new trial by over a dozen banks will explore the concept of USCs, or utility settlement coins. While this sounds somewhat innovative, one has to wonder how things will play out exactly.
2019-6-5 11:30 | |
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Chinese speculators are borrowing in droves to take out positions in the bull market, according to one lender. BabelBank, one of the largest commercial crypto banks, has seen a significant increase in speculative borrowing.
2019-5-29 18:36 | |
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Rabobank, a bank based out of The Netherlands, has decided to drop their idea of creating their own native cryptocurrency called Rabobit. The bank had announced their cryptocurrency plans in February 2018.
2019-5-23 17:25 | |
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Today’s Ripple (XRP) News There are two things that are unique about Ripple Inc. Their core objective is to roll out solutions that advance efficiency as well as cost savings. The second differentiator is of course their will to collaborate with the “system”, that is law makers and regulators, from the jurisdiction they operate from. […]
2019-5-22 18:33 | |
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Bitcoin has seen a lot of success in the last couple of days, pulling analysts out of the woodwork with their own comments about what makes the industry last. The founder of Adamant Capital, Tuur Demeester, suggested that the exchanges and custodians involved with Bitcoin “are too big to fail” in a post on Twitter. […]
2019-5-15 17:21 | |
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International cross border payment options are without a doubt one of the most significant uses of digital currencies. Cryptocurrency payments options are a lot more faster than the the traditional payment methods, because third party intermediaries are cut out of the process.
2019-5-14 02:20 | |
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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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On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.
2019-5-11 21:34 | |
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A simulation of letter of credit transactions has been carried out by over 50 banks in 27 countries on six continents on R3’s blockchain platform
2019-5-8 18:55 | |
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Going paperless is seemingly becoming an attractive option. Paper records are often used to carry out activities in banks from lending to signifying ownership. However, forgers are now utilizing it as a means to forge the symbols that make a document legal.
2019-5-7 22:48 | |
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Cryptocurrency and blockchain were built to usurp centralized authorities like governments and banks. And then came Ripple, the digital asset that throws the cypherpunk ideology straight out the window.
2019-5-3 17:16 | |
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Five Canadian banks have rolled out a new blockchain-based mobile service from SecureKey to let customers securely verify their identities.
2019-5-2 13:15 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.
2019-5-1 01:22 | |
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The latest edition of “Targeting scams,” an annual report released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed that the country saw a 190 percent increase in cryptocurrency scams, with a total of $6.
2019-4-30 20:07 | |
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By CCN: Hold onto your bitcoin. Stephanie Kelton, U. S. economist and senior economic advisor for Bernie Sanders 2020, just declared war on the U. S. dollar, tweeting: “The carpenter can’t run out of inches.
2019-4-28 21:36 | |
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Cryptocurrencies allowed society to freely carry out financial transactions without depending on the authorization or supervision of third parties such as banks, government agencies, private organizations, etc.
2019-4-28 20:46 | |
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An intelligence branch of the Russian government used bitcoin to fund its cyberwarfare efforts to interfere with the 2016 U. S. presidential election, the Mueller Report claims.
2019-4-19 23:21 | |
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A leading US Coinbase exchange spreads the word that is has added 11 more countries to its list of customers, including India, where the RBI last year banned banks from working with any crypto company.
2019-4-18 10:20 | |
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2019-4-16 18:21 | |
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North Korea might be posturing to attack Southeast Area’s growing cryptocurrency sector, and experts say it demands international response to reduce the threat. British defense think-tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has warned countries like Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam could soon become targets of state-sponsored hackers intent on skirting international economic sanctions, CNBC reports.
2019-4-15 12:56 | |
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Resona, one of three Japanese banks working with SBI Holdings and Ripple on their blockchain app Money Tap, is pulling out of the project.
2019-4-12 15:25 | |
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The Bank of England (BoE) and HM Treasury reported significant progress in the design phase of the digital pound, a proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC) that would complement traditional banknotes and enhance the UK’s payment infrastructure.
The next two-year phase of Project Helvetia will see other financial institutions and types of transactions join the party.
The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) will begin a trial of its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital rial, in Kish Island starting in July. The central bank said on June 19 that banking network customers and tourists can use the digital rial wallet to make purchases and transfers between wallets via barcode without […] The post Iran to pilot CDBC in Kish Island starting July appeared first on CryptoSlate.
The world’s largest lender, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), recently published an in-depth analysis highlighting the rapid evolution and growing diversity in digital currencies, where it compared Bitcoin to gold and deemed Ethereum “digital oil.
Onchain Highlights DEFINITION: Bitcoin realized cap HODL waves are a bundle of all active supply age bands, aka HODL waves. Each colored band shows the percentage of Bitcoin in existence that was last moved within the period denoted in the legend.
Out of four recent crypto regulatory initiatives, the stablecoin bill has the highest chance of being passed before the U.S. presidential election, the report said.
The Qatar Central Bank (QCB) has announced the completion of the infrastructure development for its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) project, marking a significant milestone in its efforts to embrace digital financial transformations.