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Facebook’s cryptocurrency project, Libra, has announced the selection of a five-member board on Monday. The company has dismissed the recent turmoil over several prominent members leaving, the latest one being an online travel company called Booking Holdings.The head of policy and communications representing the Libra Association, Dante Disparte, says that
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The ex-head of the United States’ commodities regulator thinks the government must digitize the dollar and take power away from central banks.Giancarlo wants independently maintained dollarIn an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal on Oct. 15, J. Christopher Giancarlo, former chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission or
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END OF AN ERA – IMF boss & unannounced Ripple fan Christine Legarde steps down and takes on the job of running the ECB in just under two weeksThe XRP Community is buzzing for a live stream available on Twitter from the IMF later today, apparently currencies and payments are
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Scoring yet another ‘golden boot’ for the global crypto team, Grayscale Investments brings home the first ever publicly-quoted security which derives its value from cryptocurrencies.Indeed, the firm is living up to its reputation as the world’s largest digital asset manager. You will recall that the firm already has three Trusts
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OneCoin is supposedly a digital currency estimated to have raised over £4 billion globally in the form of investments, but US prosecutors claim that the cryptocurrency is a front for a pyramid scheme, designed just to extract money from its investors. The founder, Ruja Ignatova, has vanished after being charged
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Binance’s Bitcoin futures product is the only winner in a lackluster market this week as trading volume hits local lows. Research highlights “very low” activityAnalysis of various platforms’ trading volumes by exchange eToro’s senior market strategist Mati Greenspan on Oct. 15 revealed cryptocurrency markets had all but bottomed out in
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has once again begun accepting public comments regarding the updated Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal by Wilshire Phoenix Fund.According to the official document published on Oct. 15, investment management firm Wilshire Phoenix and exchange NYSE Arca have filed an amendment
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Analysts at RBC Capital Markets have suggested that stifling Facebook’s Libra may leave the field open to China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) to dominate in emerging economies.China shifts development of digital currency in extra gearOn Oct. 15, financial news outlet Markets Insider reported that RBC analysts believe that
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QAN is a quantum-resistant, enterprise-ready blockchain. To date, only one or two other blockchain projects have launched with the quantum threat in mind – Quantum Resistant Ledger is the best-known. However, none of them yet offer any kind of sophisticated smart contract programming capabilities.New blockchain platforms generally claim to be
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If you’re a Bitcoin miner or enthusiast, you now have another reason to smile. On October 12th, RSK, the project that brought smart contracts to Bitcoin, launched a new incentive program that will provide a big boost to its merged mining rewards program.RSK’s reward program, which compensates merged mining efforts
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