Bitcoin and several altcoins have recovered sharply from their intraday lows, a signal that there is healthy demand at lower levels. in a recent Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session, billionaire Ray Dalio warned investors that the current astronomical pace of money printing is unlikely to stop in the near future and holding wealth in cash could […]
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Ethereum co-founder believes that CBDCs are good for macroeconomics, but there are also certain challenges. Central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, will be fairly easy to convert into cryptocurrencies in the future, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes. Speaking at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 on Dec. 9, Buterin said that he expects a lot of […]
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Executives from Facebook’s ‘Diem’ Association, Circle, Soramitsu, and Coinbase discussed how and when digital currencies will go mainstream, at the Singapore Fintech Festival. Speaking at Singapore Fintech Festival, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said that “third-generation blockchain technology” would see digital currency “in the hands of hundreds of millions, if not billions of users.” Allaire featured […]
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Will CBDCs disrupt stablecoins or will they help each other? The public and private sectors should work closely together to bring about the future of money, according to a former leader of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Chris Giancarlo, a former CFTC chairman and initiator of a blockchain-based digital dollar project, joined the Singapore Fintech […]
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The social media giant has rebranded in hopes of scoring regulatory approval. Global regulators should grant Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Diem “the benefit of the doubt” to greenlight its launch in 2021, a top executive at Facebook Financial said. David Marcus, the head of Facebook Financial, or F2, said that both cryptocurrency Diem and related crypto wallet […]
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The Winklevoss twins have urged attendees of the Singapore Fintech Festival to educate themselves on Bitcoin, predicting BTC’s market cap will flip that of gold. Speaking during the Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 on Dec. 7, pioneering Bitcoin investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss reaffirmed previous forecasts that Bitcoin’s (BTC) price will eventually exceed prices of $500,000 […]
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Facebook’s plan to rebrand its stablecoin project from Libra to Diem has been met with legal threats from a small European start-up of the same name. Facebook has been hit with threats of legal action over its plan to rebrand the Libra stablecoin project to ‘Diem’ from a finance application of the same name. Facebook […]
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The decision on how to launch a digital euro could still be a long time coming. Financial authorities in Europe could form an investigation plan for a digital euro as early as next year, according to an executive at the European Central Bank. Holger Neuhaus, head of market innovation and integration division at the ECB, […]
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Hauck & Aufhäuser’s Digital Asset Fund I will reportedly cover 85% of the total crypto asset market. German private bank Hauck & Aufhäuser announced its first crypto fund, the HAIC Digital Asset Fund I, launching Jan. 1, 2021. According to a report on FundView, the initiative, a collaboration with Berlin fintech Kapilendo, will target institutional and semi-institutional […]
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But the bill is unlikely to become law any time soon. On Wednesday night, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib introduced a bill before the U.S. House of Representatives looking to make fiat-pegged stablecoin operators abide by the same rules and registration requirements expected of banks. The legislation, under the name “the Stablecoin Tethering and Bank Licensing Enforcement […]
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