[ad_2][ad_1] Money has taken many forms over the centuries, from physical forms such as stones or shells to dematerialized bits and bytes. Money itself has no value except as a medium of exchange and unit of measurement. Bartering most likely preceded money for easily tradable items such as animal skins …
Read More »Saudi Arabia – UAE completes Integrated Digital Currency Experiment (CBDC) -Coindesk Korea
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Read More »Blockchain Bites: Brazilian CBDC, Uncle Sam seizes one billion Bitcoin; Big trouble for Bigatton, read Swift Swiss Blockchain
[ad_2][ad_1] Bigatton Bigatton with the Bogus BitConnect scam pursued by ASIC The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) in partnership with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Crown Prosecutors have charged John Bigatton, the Australian promoter of the infamous $ 2.6 billion BitConnect offering, of …
Read More »Bitcoin Daily: UK Researching CBDC Use Cases
[ad_2][ad_1] To share Tweet To share To share To share Print E-mail The The UK Treasury Department is studying use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), as well as drafting regulatory proposals for private stablecoins, UK Treasury Chancellor Rishi Sunak said in a press release. The announcement did …
Read More »The CBDC revolution will come in 3 years, says Roubini, an opponent of Bitcoin
[ad_2][ad_1] Nouriel Roubini, an award-winning economist and notorious Bitcoin (BTC) skeptic, is confident that central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, are the future of money. According to Roubini, global CBDCs such as the digital yuan are likely to replace major financial services and cryptocurrencies in the near future. “They will …
Read More »Australia and ConsenSys Investigate Launch of Ethereum-Based CBDC (ETH)
[ad_2][ad_1] The Australian research project with ConsenSys will explore the launch of CBDC on the Ethereum-based DLT (ETH) platform. The CBDC research project on Ethereum for the Australian central bank is expected to be completed by the end of 2020. In a press release, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) …
Read More »Reserve Bank of Australia to explore wholesale CBDC using Ethereum technology – Ledger Insights
[ad_2][ad_1] Today the Reserve Bank of Australia announced its planning for a proof of concept (PoC) for a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), or more specifically, blockchain technology Ethereum. It involves collaboration with Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, Perpetual and the US blockchain …
Read More »The German central bank is working on a blockchain project, but it is not a CBDC
[ad_2][ad_1] According to a public notice published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, Ocean Protocol, a Singapore-based non-profit foundation, was hired to create a decentralized network for the German Bundesbank. The central bank said the Ocean Protocol, which is a project of relatively limited reputation, …
Read More »Blockchain Bites: the Slim Margins of the Bitcoin Miners, the latest CBDC pilot of ConsenSys, the Power Hire of a16z
[ad_2][ad_1] Bitcoin’s hashrate is skyrocketing. Ethereum Incubator ConsenSys has signed up for another CBDC pilot project. JPMorgan unveiled a revamped interbank transfer blockchain network that could challenge SWIFT. Upper shelf Lower profitsProfitability of bitcoin mining is at an all-time low in 2020, spurred in part by new ASIC mining machinery …
Read More »XRP is not competing with Stablecoin and CBDC, Ripple Exec says
[ad_2][ad_1] XRP, the third largest cryptocurrency in the world by market capitalization, is not competing with national digital currencies like the upcoming digital yuan, according to a senior Ripple executive. Emi Yoshikawa, Ripple’s senior director of global operations, said XRP does not compete with either central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) …
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