Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange co-founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, is tapping a digital bank founder to manage its European operations, the company announced Wednesday. Julian Sawyer, former co-founder and chief operating officer at U.K.-based Starling Bank, will shape the exchange’s strategy for the region as well as manage European hiring, according to a press

Only a few weeks after the United States Internal Revenue Service published new guidance for crypto taxation, the United Kingdom’s tax, payments and customs authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, has updated its cryptocurrency taxation policy paper for businesses and individuals. The HMRC’s approach in this policy paper is, as expected, conservative, and it stands in line with other countries’ tax treatment

Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, said the country needs to “seize the opportunity” afforded by blockchain technology. Speaking as part of the 18th collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee on Thursday in Beijing, Xi said blockchain technology has a wide

Libra mette la retromarcia. E con lei lo fa l’idea di una criptovaluta globale stabile e diffusa, quantomeno per ora. Non sono (più) solo gli analisti e gli osservatori del mercato a dirlo, ma David Marcus, il responsabile del progetto in Facebook e numero uno di Calibra, la sussidiaria con cui Menlo Park sta cercando di entrare

In my last blog about Gartner and Blockchain I mentioned the importance of the role of CIOs. They are supposed to play a leading role in determining if this technology could be of use for their business. Great question is: are CIOs already prepared for that role. In this blog I will sum up ten

Last month, German state-owned bank Bayerische Landesbank, also known as BayernLB, published a report that discusses Bitcoin’s stock-to-flow ratio. The authors concluded that Bitcoin is “designed as an ultra-hard type of money.” STOCK-TO-FLOW: BITCOIN VS GOLD Apparently, BayernLB authors relied on the stock-to-flow model previously proposed by Twitter user PlanB. For those unfamiliar, the stock-to-flow ratio refers

 It is “inevitable” that central banks including the U.S. Federal Reserve will start issuing digital currency, Philadelphia Federal Reserve bank president Patrick Harker said on Wednesday, while cautioning that the United States should not be the nation to lead such a move. “Frankly I don’t think we should be the first mover as a nation

About this report The European Union Blockchain Observatory & Forum has set as one of its objectives the analysis of and reporting on a wide range of important blockchain themes, driven by the priorities of the European Commission and based on input from its Working Groups and other stakeholders. As part of this it will

A battle is raging for your wallet. New entrants want to occupy the space once used by paper bills or your debit card. The adoption of new, digital payment methods could bring significant benefits to customers and society: improved efficiency, greater competition, broader financial inclusion, and more innovation. But it could invite risks to financial

Regulators will question representatives of digital currency over threat to financial stability Facebook will be quizzed by global regulators on its planned Libra coin project amid concerns from EU governments over the threat the digital currency poses to financial stability. Representatives of Libra will meet officials from 26 central banks, including the Federal Reserve and