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Cornell University’s professor of economics and former head of the IMF’s China division, Eswar Prasad, has warned that “Cryptocurrencies may contribute to monetary and financial instability.” He added that the risk is amplified if the industry is unregulated and lacks investor protection. Economist Sees Crypto Posing Risks to Financial Stability Eswar Prasad,
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A professor with the University of Johannesburg, Rabelani Dagada, has urged South Africa to finalize its cryptocurrency public policy if the country still wants to become a hub for digital currency innovation. History Will Repeat Itself In an opinion published by Itweb, Dagada warned South African authorities that the continued efforts
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The Biden administration reportedly intends to nominate Kazakhstani-American attorney, academic and former policy advisor Saule Omarova to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) — the institution that oversees the U.S. banking sector.Omarova has levied criticisms at both crypto assets and the legacy banking sector in the
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Canadian professor Jordan Peterson has released a podcast discussing bitcoin (BTC). The hour and a half podcast engaged notable figures in the Bitcoin ecosystem, including John Vallis, Der Gigi, Richard James, and Robert Breedlove in an-in depth technical, philosophical, and economic discussion about the digital currency. Prof John Peterson Discusses Bitcoin
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Infectious disease scientist Neil Ferguson estimates coronavirus could be infecting 50,000 people a day. He may be correct, as the data coming out of China look suspicious. A steady rate of 3,000 diagnoses per day points to the upper limit of detection kits that are available to the health workers. In a video
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Benjamin Noys, a professor at the University of Chichester, in the UK, invented the term "accelerationism" for a philosophy that says technological progress should
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