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As Libra Battles Critics, Zuckerberg Aims to Win Over US Policymakers

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is in Washington for meetings with policymakers to discuss internet regulatory matters such as privacy, competition and its handling of political content.As noted in Bloomberg’s Sept. 19 report, the meetings come after a summer of intense scrutiny of Facebook’s proposed Libra stablecoin project from United States

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CBDCs a Flexible Tool for a Zero-Interest Rate World

Chile’s central bank governor, Mario Marcel, says central bank digital currencies (CBDC) can provide additional flexibility at a time of “unconventional monetary policies.” Marcel made the comments in a speech titled “High-level Policy Panel Discussion on Central Bank Digital Currencies" at the OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum held in Paris on

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SEC Charges Token Sale Platform For Illegal $14M Securities Offering

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued ICOBox and its founder Nikolay Evdokimov for conducting an illegal securities offering and for acting as unregistered brokers.SEC says ICOBox’s digital tokens are worthlessIn a press release on Sept. 18, the SEC claimed that ICOBox and Evdokimov sold the

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Two Arrested for ‘Old-Fashioned Shakedown’ of Cryptocurrency Startup

Authorities in the United States have arrested two individuals who allegedly threatened to destroy a startup crypto company if they were not paid millions of dollars in cryptocurrency.Extortion of crypto startupOn Sept. 18, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, together with the FBI, announced

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