• U.S. SENATE TALKS CRYPTO & BLOCKCHAIN

    • 6 July 2020
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    On June 30, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee held a hearing that covered a whole host of policy topics on the digitization of #money and #payments. In what was described as a move closer to the U.S. Digital Dollar, the hearing also covered many hot topics related to the crypto and blockchain space. Chairman Mike

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  • CBDC WOULD GIVE FED TOO MUCH POWER

    • 1 July 2020
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    According to the American Bankers Association (ABA), a private consortium of American banks, central bank digital currency (CBDC) puts an uncomfortable amount of power in the hands of the Federal Reserve. A CDBC is a currency that is minted and distributed by a central bank. Some designs for central bank digital currencies could either use

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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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  • BITCOIN PRIVACY WALLET UNDER EUROPOL’S LENS

    • 8 June 2020
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    Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, has its eyes on the popular #bitcoin #privacy tool Wasabi Wallet, documents verified by CoinDesk show. Marked for “law enforcement only,” a two-part report by Europol’s European #Cybercrime Centre (EC3) analyzed the privacy tool’s impact on using the Bitcoin blockchain to investigate crimes. read more here  source: Coindesk

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  • CANADA: MSB LEGALLY RECOGNIZE CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGES AND PROCESSORS

    • 4 June 2020
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    • Category: Central Banks, World News
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    As Francis Pouliot twitted… Today is my last day as an unregulated dealer in virtual currency. As of June 1st 2020, Bitcoin exchanges and payment processors are officially regulated as Money Services Businesses in Canada. Full circle 7 years after I started my career in Bitcoin lobbying on this very issue. — Frλ͎ncis ☣️ (bullbitcoin.com)

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  • WELCOME ON BOARD, DELOITTE

    • 22 May 2020
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    At Deloitte we believe that Blockchain is the technological game changer for a wide range of industries. It is the digital representation of the concepts of immutability, security, transparency, sharing and decentralization. All these topics are now, more than ever, key targets for a wide array of services in satisfying consumer needs. Deloitte nowadays boasts

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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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    • Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News, World News
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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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    • Category: Central Banks, World News
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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
    • Posted by: admincryptovalues
    • 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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