• ISRAEL FORCES BANKS TO ACCEPT CUSTOMERS EXCHANGING DIGITAL CURRENCIES

    • 10 January 2022
    • Posted by: Cryptovalues
    • Category: Central Banks, Cryptovalues News, World News
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    Last June, the Bank of Israel announced that it had a pilot project on a digital currency, which obviously would not eliminate Banks: “No central bank would design a digital currency to eliminate Banks, which remain an integral part of any payment system” the declaration of the President of the Bank of Israel Andrew Abir

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  • LAGARDE CALLS FOR GLOBAL REGULATION OF BITCOIN

    • 14 January 2021
    • Posted by: Cryptovalues
    • Category: Central Banks, ECB - Lagarde
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    European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde called on Wednesday for global regulation of Bitcoin, saying the digital currency had been used for money laundering activities in some instances and that any loopholes needed to be closed.. continue here In the meantime… Crypto custodian Anchorage has secured conditional approval for a national trust charter from the

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  • BANK OF RUSSIA DIGITAL RUBLO ON THE WAY

    • 13 October 2020
    • Posted by: Cryptovalues
    • Category: Central Banks, World News
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    “The Bank of Russia deems it crucial to discuss the key aspects, benefits, potential risks, milestones and timeframes for the implementation of the digital ruble project with financial market participants, experts and the general public. ” Read more in the article HERE Source: BANK OF RUSSIA

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  • IMF – WHAT ARE CRYPTOCURRENCIES?

    • 25 August 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • 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
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • 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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  • U.S. SENATE TALKS CRYPTO & BLOCKCHAIN

    • 6 July 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: World News
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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
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: World News
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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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  • HOW BANK OF ENGLAND IS EXPLORING CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY

    • 10 April 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • 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
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • 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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  • BANK OF ENGLAND – CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY

    • 13 March 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: Cryptovalues News, World News
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    We are in the middle of a revolution in payments. Banknotes are being used less frequently to make payments. At the same time, fintech firms have begun to alter the market by offering new forms of money and new ways to pay with it. It is now time to look further ahead, and consider what

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