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"A key risk are the potential gaps in central banks’ internal capabilities and skills," the report by the BIS Consultative Group on Risk Management said. The central banks of Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and the United States are represented in the group. Source
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As the Bank of Spain embraces the potential adoption of a digital euro, the country’s population doesn’t appear to have the same strong appetite for the European Central Bank’s digital currency project. This emerges from the results of a survey published by the Bank of Spain entitled “Study on the habits in
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Headlines predicting the death of Bitcoin are nothing new. Over the past decade, we’ve seen every permutation of why “Bitcoin is dead” imaginable, yet the current crypto winter has brought very few of these dire proclamations. It seems a little different this time. Maybe it’s hard to pen such a eulogy
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The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Sept. 29, 2023. First Mover is CryptoX’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets. Source
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“Payment stablecoins, on their own, do not have the essential features of an investment contract,” meaning they fall outside of SEC jurisdiction, Circle’s filing said. “Decades of case law support the view that an asset sale — decoupled from any post-sale promises or obligations by the seller — is not
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However, all that said, there's something to the idea that the CFTC is using the levers of regulation to essentially wipe out predictions markets as an industry before it can even get going. There may or may not be something to the psychological and economic theory behind betting markets, but
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To be sure, there is plenty of meat here and the headline isn’t completely wrong, at least judged by the loose standards of headline writers. It’s sort of true that most NFTs are, indeed, worthless. The study found that, out of a sample of 73,257 NFT collections, 69,795 have a
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Crypto was on fire as a topic in the early U.S. presidential campaigning, but the first Republican debate last week showed it may not be an issue that has legs with candidates trying to grasp mainstream attention. While we wait to see whether digital assets come up at the Republican
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Payments, especially those across borders, are often touted as a key use case and value proposition for the blockchain industry. Unfortunately, a look at both the technology, competition, and regulatory environment doesn’t really support that idea. And the launch of FedNow by the Federal Reserve in late-July is a good
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XRP climbed as high as 64 cents at one point, its highest level since May. Source
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