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France's Financial Markets Authority (AMF) announced Thursday that it had approved an initial coin offering (ICO) for the first time.The successful recipient of the AMF "ICO visa" – a cryptocurrency fundraising platform called French-ICO – met the minimum guarantees required by law, including a white paper investors could understand, according
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The hype around initial coin offerings may have quieted down in the States, but France seems to be taking a newfound interest. On Dec. 17th, France’s financial regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), granted the country’s first approval for an ICO application.The offering came from French-ICO, a company
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Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar is the CEO of IOVLabs and co-founder of the NGO Bitcoin Argentina. During Labitconf 2019, he gave a presentation entitled "How Bitcoin, RSK and RIF are shaping the internet of the future." CryptoX spoke with him in Uruguay to learn more about the platforms that aspire
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While price remains way below where it should be, partnerships, infrastructure, adoption continue to grow and now the world’s financial elites are discussing Ripple tech. The Federal Register released a document on the 6th Dec naming XRP explicitly as a virtual currency that can settle cross border payments without the banking
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One of the most outspoken critics of Bitcoin (BTC) has delivered mixed messages about its reliability as a financial asset. In comments to Forbes published on Dec. 10, Mark Cuban appeared to contradict himself on Bitcoin’s overall utility. When asked whether or not the cryptocurrency could become a “reliable financial instrument,”
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The adoption rate of blockchain technology in China continues to impress as the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has reportedly issued 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) in blockchain-based special financial bonds for small and micro enterprises.According to local news outlet Sina Finance in early December, the funds are specifically
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On December 4th, the financial regulator the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) published an annual report for the year 2019. The report mainly focuses on the popularity of stablecoins and problems rising as these crypto assets expand over a wider range of potential consumers.In the report, a panel of top
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Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings is considering to pay shareholder dividends in the form of XRP tokens, following the same practice by its subsidiary MorningStar.After MorningStar started offering its shareholders dividends in XRP earlier this year, SBI CEO Yoshitaka Kitao revealed that the company is now considering to
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U.S. lawmakers and administration officials including Mnuchin and President Donald J. Trump have warned of the risks to the financial system from cryptocurrencies and stablecoins like Facebook's proposed Libra. But some former officials, including ex-CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo, have pushed for faster adoption of blockchains, arguing that the country could
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Mainstream media is out spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about bitcoin triggered by the recent selloff. News outlets miss the fact that bitcoin is an uncorrelated asset. The same media companies also ignore bitcoin’s growing use case. The mainstream financial media is once again feasting on bitcoin’s recent tumble. The number one
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