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Fitch Ratings has become the latest global credit rating agency to warn El Salvador against adopting Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender, expressing concerns that crypto assets could cause systemic risks for the Latin nation.Citing the country’s lack of clarity in Bitcoin’s implementation in mainstream markets, Fitch Ratings warned about the
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A Bank of America cryptocurrency report warns of the risks and potential market disruption from anti-privacy government measures. Cryptocurrencies “challenge the ability of governments to levy taxes and to control capital flows more broadly,” according to a recent report from Bank of America Securities obtained by CryptoX. Uncertainty over how
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Stablecoins could “threaten financial security” if widely adopted, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said in an article published Monday in magazine L’ENA hors les murs.In the piece, Lagarde makes a bullish case for a digital euro while throwing shade at potential rivals such as cryptocurrencies and stablecoins – digital
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Cryptocurrency scams in 2019 were more risky for U.S. residents than fraud involving romance or payments.That's the conclusion of a report released last week by the Better Business Bureau (BBB), a nonprofit organization focused on marketplace trust. The report found an average dollar loss in crypto-focused fraud of $3,000 for
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The rise in unregulated cryptocurrency betting markets poses a threat to the integrity of horse racing in Asia. So warned Hong Kong Jockey Club’s executive director of racing integrity and betting analysis, Tom Chignell, at the Asian Racing Conference in Cape Town.As reported in the South China Morning Post,
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European Central Bank (ECB) board member Benoit Coeure has warned that global stablecoins remain untested and raise potential risks across multiple policy domains. Coeure, a member of the ECB’s Executive Board, made his remarks at the Joint Conference of the ECB and National Bank of Belgium on Nov. 26,
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The deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury has raised the specter of a not-so-distant future when private digital currencies have stripped some of the power from governments. Policymakers will take a "hard look" at that, he said. Source
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Stablecoins could “complement” other payment systems and improve conditions for consumers, but need constant checks, says the United States Federal Reserve.In its November 2019 Financial Stability Report released on Nov. 15, the Fed highlights stablecoins and their potential impact on the U.S. and beyond.Fed: Unregulated stablecoins “pose risks”Rather than
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Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has become the target of a crypto scam that tries to impersonate him in order to fool his followers on Twitter. Yes, again.The obvious intention of the scammers is to mislead followers and get them to send their Bitcoin(BTC)trade and Ethereum (ETH)trade funds to the
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A pending report issued by the G7 committee moves to warn stakeholder’s about the serious security flaws exhibited by Facebook’s Libra which is pegged to real world assets such as government holdings and national fiat currencies.The BBC reports a draft of the report that reprimands digital currencies’ issuers in harsh
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