• 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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  • BLOOMBERG – BITCOIN MATURATION LEAP

    • 23 April 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: Cryptovalues News, World News
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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
    • 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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  • DIGITAL YEN : JAPAN COULD LAUNCH CBDC IN 3 YEARS

    • 11 February 2020
    • Posted by: Curatore
    • Category: Central Banks, World News
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    According to Reuters, Kozo Yamamoto, Head of the banking and finance systems research commission at Japan’s ruling party, has proposed to create and launch a digital yen cryptocurrency within two to three years. The Liberal Democratic Party legislator remarked that: “The sooner the better. We’ll draft proposals to be included in government’s policy guidelines, and

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