The company completed an international trade payment
operation between Paraguay and Argentina. The objective of the proposed service
is to reduce costs and confirmation times using Bitcoin.
Besides its public and unchangeable blockchain, which improves
transparency,...
Besides Taproot, other updates are considered by
Bitcoin Core developers. Bitcoin has not undergone any hard or soft forks for over
two years after SegWit.
The Taproot proposal, an anticipated technological change for Bitcoin,
is almost...
Tech companies
and phone services providers have already zeroed in on adding blockchain and
crypto features into its products, seeing that both are slowly, but surely
changing the world and growing in popularity in the last few years. Customers
all over...
Facebook's cryptocurrency may not be
launched by 2020. Mark Zuckerberg says that it will take some time to consult
and evaluate the project.
After several big scandals that eroded user trust in
Facebook, the company, famous...
According to its co-creator, Libra does not seek to replace banks or governments in the issuance of money. This instrument could facilitate access to financial services for the unbanked.
Libra’s Co-creator
David Marcus appeared...
When a global Internet giant teases with the community and mulls about
the possibility of offering crypto-related services, it will certainly draw
people's attention and raise some eyebrows in the process. That's precisely
what Kakao has managed to achieve.
Numerous associations have opened
offices in the center of political power in the United States. The lobbying that
they do seeks to protect the interests of the companies, rather than that of the
users.
Lobbying is...
As cryptocurrencies grow
as an industry, more and more countries are willing to experiment with them as
means to hold and store value. The idea of central bank digital currencies
(CBDCs) has long been discussed, and it has been applied...
The
department will monitor emerging financial technologies. It will be responsible
for granting licenses, including those approved by BitLicense.
The New York
State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), the New York State financial
regulator, is moving its...
The member of the Executive Committee of the European Central Bank (ECB)
Yves Mersch said that Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra could jeopardize
financial stability.
During the Legal Conference of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB),
which was...
