Soon it will be November 3, the day when the U.S. will decide whether Donald Trump can take up his second term in office. In the presidential election, the postal vote plays an important role. Now the U.S. postal authority has applied for a patent for a blockchain-based voting system. The U.S. President Donald Trump […]
This week, the US supervisory authority, Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), announced in an open letter that nationally licensed banks are allowed to offer custody services for crypto-currencies. The regulatory environment in the United States regarding the provision of trading and services in digital assets is not uniformly regulated. The legal situation is […]
In line with its recently communicated strategy for digital assets, InCore Bank is now the first financial institution in Switzerland to offer banking services to Kraken clients. Zurich/Schlieren, 3 July 2020 – Kraken is the largest crypto currency exchange in Europe in terms of euro volume. With this integration Kraken offers its customers another simple […]
In a 32-page document entitled “Central Bank Digital Currency”, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia examined the future of the monetary system in connection with digital central bank currencies (CBDCs). The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia concludes in the paper that the introduction of digital currencies could lead to a fundamental change in the architecture […]
The US company Visa has filed a patent application for its own digital currency based on blockchain technology. The application was already submitted to the US authorities in November 2018. The details were made public with the recent publication. Visa intends to use blockchain and tokenized US dollars to improve the efficiency of its payment […]
The use of the tokens will revolve around subreddit-specific digital rewards and rewards within the Reddit platform, including a “special membership” and voting privileges. The US-American company Reddit, based in San Francisco, was founded in 2005 and currently generates a turnover of around 100 million US dollars annually. In addition, the group currently employs approximately […]
The step of the major US bank JPMorgan Chase to accept two well-known crypto exchanges as customers with immediate effect could be followed by other institutions. It proves that the traditional financial industry is becoming more open to digital currencies like Bitcoin. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase once called Bitcoin a fraud, but now the […]
The investor Paul Tudor Jones has compared Bitcoin with the role played by gold in the 1970s. The digital currency is supposed to serve as a hedge against inflation, which will result from the massive money printing by currently undertaken by central banks. The founder and CEO of Tudor Investment Corp. published his new stance […]
The Bitcoin price has fallen sharply in recent months in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but this has not reduced public interest in crypto-currencies. Some of the US government’s helicopter money is also being used to buy Bitcoin. As Forbes magazine reports, several Americans are using the $1,200 stimulus checks to purchase crypto-currencies such as […]
This acquisition has been hiding in plain sight for some time. The crypto exchange Binance takes over the popular US crypto information service Coinmarketcap. Coinmarketcap – 35 million requests per month It is now official: Binance has confirmed that it has acquired the, currently ,most popular crypto information service. According to reports in The Block […]
