• IMF – WHAT ARE CRYPTOCURRENCIES?

    • 25 August 2020
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    • Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News
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    The International Monetary Fund, which had already shown interest in this industry in the past, confirms, with this video, to take a huge step forward towards cryptocurrency. This is the link of the Video where, in a very simple and informative way, it begins with the explanation of what cryptocurrencies are and arrives to hypothesize

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  • RUSSIA’S NEW BILL ON DIGITAL ASSETS

    • 4 August 2020
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    • Category: World News
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    Decentralized cryptocurrencies will be considered a type of property, which should be reported for tax purposes and cannot be used to pay for goods and services. This is one of the major aspects of the recent crypto bill signed by the Russian President Vladimir Putin. The new bill will come into force in January 2021

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  • DELOITTE’S 2020 GLOBAL BLOCKCHAIN SURVEY

    • 18 June 2020
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    • Category: Companies, Cryptovalues News, Research & Development, Training
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    Nearly 40% of companies surveyed by Deloitte have already implemented #blockchain technology to improve their processes, but challenges remain for greater adoption. Deloitte surveyed around 1,500 senior #executives across 14 countries and found that more companies have put #money and resources on blockchain this year as compared to last year. In 2019, 23% of respondents

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  • BLOOMBERG – BITCOIN MATURATION LEAP

    • 23 April 2020
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    We share the April overview published by Bloomberg on: Born From the Financial Crisis, Bitcoin Maturation Accelerating Stock-Market Shakeout Accelerates Bitcoin’s Gold-Like Transition Bitcoin Futures Taming Bull Calf Toward Digital Version of Gold Bitcoin and Gold Showing Convergence With Endurance Covid-19 Supporting Bitcoin On-Chain Indicators, Dominance Covid-19 May Give Libra Life, Spur Fed’s Digital Currency

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  • HOW BANK OF ENGLAND IS EXPLORING CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY

    • 10 April 2020
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    The Bank of England (BoE) published a discussion paper on central bank digital currency (CBDC) in March 2020. BoE researchers and analysts are actively exploring how an electronic form of central bank money would look like and how it could function in the real world. The discussion paper outlines an illustrative model of CBDC designed

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  • IMF’S TAKE ON CBDC

    • 23 March 2020
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    Tao Zhang’s Keynote about some of the main pros and cons of CBDC and what the IMF is doing in this area. Read the speech HERE. Source: IMF Image credit: TOGO

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  • LIBRA OR LIBRAE?

    • 21 March 2020
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    • Category: Academic World, Cryptovalues News
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    Basket based stablecoins to mitigate foreign exchange volatility spillovers. In the paper they present a methodology to empirically build a basket based stable coin  (a Librae) whose weights can maximize stability over a long time period. The proposed stable coin (Librae) appears to be less volatile than single currencies and, therefore, with respect to single

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