Facebook has been highly secretive about its recent endeavor with cryptocurrency and blockchain. A more transparent approach could raise speculations in the market. Moreover, the regulations around cryptocurrency and payments have been unclear as well. Recently, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee sent an open letter to Founder Mark Zuckerberg, demanding the details about its cryptocurrency project: Libra. Furthermore,

More than 40 central banks worldwide are experimenting with blockchain technology, says a new report by the World Economic Forum. Published Wednesday, the report analyzes how different central banks are either examining what blockchain can be used for or are outright experimenting with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). “It’s very much the case that several

Miccoli (Conio): ‘L’Italia non è un paese per bitcoin. Ma si può migliorare se le banche lo capiscono’ L’Italia, parafrasando il titolo di un noto film, non è un paese per monete virtuali come il bitcoin, ma dovrebbe e potrebbe diventarlo. Ne è convinto Christian Miccoli, alla guida di Conio, startup del fintech da lui cofondata insieme con Vincenzo

Three years in the making, bitcoin’s first sidechain “Liquid” is now live. Launched by San Francisco startup Blockstream, Liquid is arguably the most advanced implementation of a technology called sidechains that’s long been a holy grail for bitcoin coders (though what’s being launched today may be a watered-down version of the original “trustless” vision). Still, that

Today Circle and the CENTRE open source consortium introduced a service to tokenize US dollars and use those dollars over public blockchains on the internet: USD//Coin, also known as USDC. Individuals and institutions can enroll in this service to deposit US dollars from bank accounts, convert those dollars into tokens usable everywhere the internet reaches