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UK’s Digital Securities Consultation Will Examine DLT Bonds and Equities, not Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH)

The relaxation will in the first instance operate for a period of up to five years, and would apply as a minimum to digital equities, bonds and money market instruments – but not to derivatives, or to unbacked crypto, such as bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), as officials point to

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BOE governor trashes crypto, stablecoins in favor of ‘enhanced digital money’

Andrew Bailey, a Bank of England (BOE) governor, delivered a speech July 10 in which he moved smoothly from the central bank’s efforts to control inflation and maintain public trust in financial institutions to why cryptocurrencies are not money. Instead of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, he would prefer “enhanced digital money.”The spate of

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Marathon Digital attributes 21% decline in Bitcoin mined to adverse weather conditions

Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital has linked its recent slump in the total amount of Bitcoin's (BTC) mined in June to the weather conditions in Texas and a drop in transaction fees.According to a July 5 statement, Marathon Digital experienced a “21%" decline in June for the total amount of

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Gemini files lawsuit against Digital Currency Group and Barry Silbert over Genesis and Earn program

United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has announced legal action against the conglomerate Digital Currency Group (DCG) and its CEO Barry Silbert, claiming “fraud against creditors”.In a July 7 filing in a New York court, Gemini alleged DCG and Silbert engaged in a scheme involving lending “huge amounts of cryptocurrency and

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Citi, HSBC, NY Fed’s Innovation Group See Merit in Digital Ledgers for Global Payments

Fitting somewhere in the middle of the debate between central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and private stablecoins, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s New York Innovation Center (NYIC), which has collaborated on the project since last year, concluded that “the network has the potential to deliver improvements in the

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Anchorage Digital sees asset custody demand surge amid crypto volatility

Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Amid increased scrutiny and tumultuous events in the crypto industry, Anchorage Digital, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency firm, reports a substantial 80% increase in the assets under its custody in the first quarter of 2023. Anchorage Digital, the

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