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China is at last planning to conduct the first real-world test of its central bank digital currency (CBDC), fresh reports claim. According to local news outlet Caijing on Dec. 9, the initial pilot for the CBDC is set for the city of Shenzhen before the end of 2019, and may
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Major crypto exchange Binance is looking for managerial staff to establish its office in Turkey, according to job postings on LinkedIn.Binance listed a total of five open positions on its LinkedIn company page as of Dec. 6 to establish a local presence in Istanbul, Turkey. The company is seeking
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There are more than 60 contributors to the Celo project internationally, including the World Bank Group and the UN; tech firms like Google, Square, Microsoft and Apple; financial companies such as PayPal and Morgan Stanley; and academics from MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Berkeley. Source
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Jihan Wu, co-founder and CEO of Chinese mining giant Bitmain, believes the next Bitcoin (BTC) block reward halving may not lead to a bull market, but the coin’s price will grow in the long term.According to Chinese industry news outlet 8BTC’s report published on Oct. 11, Wu made his
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The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Patrick Harker, said on Wednesday that the U.S. shouldn’t be the first nation to launch its digital currency payment system and lead the pack of other central banks issuing state-sponsored cryptocurrency.Harker further said that the trend of the central banks around
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The altcoin markets just woke up suddenly with Ethereum and XRP leading the way adding 7% and 16% correspondingly. Despite Bitcoin price makes no major movements, this may mean that the market is starting to mature.Out of the blue, the crypto space seems to have come alive after weeks of
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At CFTC, Coinbase’s Dorothy D. DeWitt will be responsible for the supervision of derivatives platforms, including bitcoin futures, swap data repositories, as well as for the evaluation of the new platform-traded products.The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has welcomed a new member to its team. They have appointed Dorothy
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In July, tech giant Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) announced that it was going to launch its own cryptocurrency named Libra, and since then, it has lurched from one problem to the next. Policymakers from all across the world, including the head of the US Federal Reserve and US President Donald Trump, expressed their
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