ING Survey: Europe Still a Patchy Landscape of Crypto Adoption
European countries present a patchy landscape of cryptocurrency acceptance. Most consumers remain skeptical, but there is an emerging class of true believers, shows the latest ING...
Facebook Insists Libra Poses No Threat to Central Banks
Let’s be honest. For central banks that relish their power to unleash quantitative easing and print money at will, Facebook’s Libra is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Facebook Does...
Sunday Digest: No Bitcoin Breakout Yet, and Libra Is Back In The News
So the first foolhardy participants have started to gather ahead of the Storm Area 51 event that 3.5 million Facebook followers are apparently going to. Whilst it doesn’t take a...
Nick Szabo, ‘Libra is a Cryptocurrency in the Same Way That a...
Facebook’s Libra Coin has been all over the news the past few months as more tech giants invest in the network. However, many people in the cryptocurrency community are skeptical...
German Gov’t Approves ‘Bundes-Chain’ to Combat...
The German government will approve its proposed blockchain strategy this September which reportedly blocks projects like Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency. Germany Readies Anti-Libra...
Libra to Address Regulatory Challenges and Launch By End of 2020
Bertrand Perez, General Director of the Libra Association, told the French financial media Les Echos that the stablecoin project backed by Facebook would go live by the end of 2020...
France To Block Libra But FINMA Eager For Regulation
Fresh reports have revealed that France wants to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe. Meanwhile, financial regulators in Switzerland say they are open to...
Three Things To Know About China’s Digital Yuan (Not a...
China’s central bank is reportedly making strides towards launching a digital currency (not a cryptocurrency) tied to the yuan. Here are three things to know about the proposed...
Facebook Seeks Payments License For Libra as Code Vulnerabilities...
Despite escalating regulatory concerns from the governments of the world, Facebook appears to be pressing on with its global bank ambitions. This week the social media giant made moves...
Libra-Like Tokens Pose Risks to Swiss National Bank’s Monetary...
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is afraid that digital currencies like Facebook’s Libra might impede the central bank’s capability to initiate and implement monetary policy. This...
Int’l Finance Watchdog Appoints Japanese Cryptocurrency...
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has appointed Ryozo Himino, Japan’s top cryptocurrency regulator, as the new head of its Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory...
Sunday Digest: Bitcoin Price, Libra-Killers and Craig Wright (again)
Obviously, it’s still just about the end of summer, so French air traffic controllers have decided to go on strike. Maybe there would be less annual havoc across Europe’s...