Tag Archives: CBDC

Money reinvented: digital assets go mainstream

[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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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