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2 years, 5 months ago
South African crypto platform “Africrypt” steals 3.6 billion USD
The two South African brothers behind the crypto investment platform “Africrypt” have disappeared along with 3.6 billion USD in bitcoin bought with investors’ funds. Regulators in South Africa are now looki…
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2 years, 5 months ago
China continues crackdown on Bitcoin mining
Since the beginning of the year, China has shut down Bitcoin mining farms nationwide. On the one hand, this is an attempt by China to reduce its carbon emissions. On another, the country ostensibly wants to…
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2 years, 5 months ago
University of Basel makes crypto course publicly available
The University of Basel’s Center for Innovative Finance (CIF) decided to make its introductory “Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptoassets” bachelor’s course open access. Some of its courses have been around for years a…
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2 years, 5 months ago
Major bank BBVA supports Bitcoin services
Spain’s second-largest bank, BBVA, is launching a new business for private banking clients in its Swiss arm that will allow investments in alternative digital assets alongside Bitcoin trading and custody s…
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2 years, 5 months ago
Project Jura: The next step for a Swiss CBDC?
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is continuing its experiments in the field of central bank currencies (CBDCs). “Project Jura” is investigating cross-border payment processing in cooperation with the central bank of…
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2 years, 5 months ago
Thailand bans “meme tokens” and NFTs
Thailand has recently imposed restrictions on cryptocurrency trading. The South-east Asian nation’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has implemented a ban on various types of blockchain currencies such a…
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2 years, 5 months ago
China censors crypto searches
Social media in China is blocking recent search results, and suspending the accounts of popular crypto-related content creators. If the situation continues, then this appears to be the latest step in Beijing’s i…
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2 years, 5 months ago
Regulators looking into Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
After a boom in decentralized financial applications (DeFi) regulators are increasingly looking into the young subsector of the crypto industry. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chief has talked…
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2 years, 5 months ago
Standard Chartered launches trading platform for cryptocurrencies
Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) wants to establish an institutional trading platform for cryptocurrencies in the UK and Europe. The new exchange is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2021, depending…
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2 years, 5 months ago
Digital Yuan ready for use as of 2022
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the Chinese central bank, plans to use their digital yuan during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. It could be the first test for China’s central bank digital currency (CB…
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2 years, 6 months ago
Hedge Funds Increasingly Interested in Cryptocurrencies
PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PwC) has published a comprehensive report on cryptocurrencies. The study provides an overview of how hedge funds and asset managers are dealing with the new asset class on a…
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2 years, 6 months ago
Federal Reserve Considers Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
The Federal Reserve Bank will publish a report on the potential transition to a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in the summer of 2021. The advanced projects of several countries, first and foremost China, as…
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2 years, 6 months ago
China Bans Crypto Services
Chinese financial authorities have banned financial institutions and payment companies from offering services related to cryptocurrencies and warned investors against speculative crypto trading. Instead, they are…
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2 years, 6 months ago
eBay enables selling of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
A week ago, eBay announced that payments with cryptocurrencies were under consideration. Now, the operator of one of the largest online marketplaces has decided to enable the buying and selling of non-fungible…
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2 years, 6 months ago
Tesla Suspends Payments with Bitcoin
A few months ago, US car manufacturer Tesla announced a billion-dollar investment in Bitcoin. Since then, it was also possible to buy electric cars with the cryptocurrency. This option has now been suspended, the…
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2 years, 6 months ago
UBS wants to offer cryptocurrencies to clients
Over the past year, some banks have expanded their services to cryptocurrencies due to strong demand. Especially in the US, this trend is picking up. Now UBS also wants to allow its wealthy clients to invest in…
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2 years, 6 months ago
Crime with Cryptocurrencies – Regulatory and Market Evidence
Two authoritative market intelligence reports on the illicit use of cryptocurrencies, released in February 2021, evidence a marked decrease in the phenomena during 2020 – compared to 2019 – but also new wor…
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2 years, 6 months ago
Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger on Bitcoin
Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger has lambasted Bitcoin in the company’s annual shareholder meeting over the weekend, despite its accelerated growth. CEO Warren Buffet has also made negative c…
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2 years, 7 months ago
Crypto Highlights April
A monthly review of what’s happening in the crypto markets enriched with institutional research on the most important topics in the industry in cooperation with the Swiss digital asset specialist, 21Shares AG. T…
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2 years, 7 months ago
JPMorgan and DBS digitize Payments using Blockchain Technology
The US investment bank JPMorgan, Singapore’s largest bank (DBS) and the state-owned investment firm Temasek have jointly launched a new blockchain company focused on global payments and cross-border transactions b…
