WhatsApp’s payment features have been suspended in Brazil less than one month after the Facebook-owned app rolled them out. Brazil’s central bank has ordered Mastercard and Visa to suspend processing money transfers on behalf of Facebook’s WhatsApp. According to official information shared with Cointelegraph Brazil, the Central Bank of Brazil (BC) took action against WhatsApp […]
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CBDCs promise to speed up existing systems but are unlikely to change the direction central banks have already been taking. As countries around the world dive into central bank digital currencies (CBDC), many in the crypto industry look forward to what that means for adoption and even lucrative partnerships to develop such tokens. However, at […]
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While many experts believe that Telegram has not compromised the security of its customers, some users have reported certain anomalies. In a sudden turn of events, Russia’s communications watchdog — Roskomnadzor — issued a public statement on June 18, announcing that it has lifted its ban on the popular messaging app Telegram. This decision comes […]
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A former senior official of the People’s Bank of China said that the country has completed the backend architecture development of its digital currency. The former vice-chair of the People’s Bank of China’s National Council for Social Security Fund, Wang Zhongmin, announced that China has completed the backend architecture development of China’s central bank digital […]
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Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast. An eventful week for Bitcoin this week. It ended down nearly 5 percent but at one point, things were looking much worse. A collapse to $8,900 sparked talk of a three-month correction—which could be exacerbated by the expiration of more than 100,000 Bitcoin options next Friday. So far […]
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Singapore’s central bank is looking to join forces with China in exploring central bank digital currencies. Singapore’s central bank and financial regulatory authority is looking to cooperate with China in the field of central bank digital money. Ravi Menon, the managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, or MAS, has voiced the country’s readiness […]
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Hironao Kunimitsu, the founder of Tokyo social gaming firm Gumi, spoke about the future of gaming and NFTs at Cointelegraph Japan’s Traders Live last week. Hironao Kunimitsu, the founder of Tokyo social gaming firm Gumi, believes that blockchain-based trading of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in video games will grow to become ‘more valuable than Japan’s entire […]
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The US’s top legal authority is looking to dismantle online protections for content publishers following Trump’s spat with Twitter weeks ago. On June 17, the United States Department of Justice issued new recommendations to roll back decades-old protections for online platforms publishing third-party content. Section 230 and internet censorship Section 230 of the Communications Decency […]
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Security token exchanges could prove to be an option for companies that are seeking public funding but can’t partake in the current IPO process. In 1996, there were over 8,000 public companies listed on exchanges in the United States. Fast forward to 2020 and there are only approximately 4,400 — a drop of 46% despite […]
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According to John Bolton’s new book ‘The Room Where It Happened’, Trump was against Bitcoin long before his July 2019 Twitter tirade. U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to take his apparent dislike of Bitcoin off Twitter and on to the regulatory level, according to former national security advisor John Bolton. A June 18 article in […]
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