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John Kiff

North Korea is developing its own cryptocurrency - 0 views

www.theblockcrypto.com/...eloping-its-own-cryptocurrency

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    North Korea is in the early stages of developing its own cryptocurrency. The goal is to avoid international sanctions and circumvent the U.S.-dominated global financial system.
John Kiff

Blockchain goes extra-terrestrial - 0 views

ftalphaville.ft.com/...kchain-goes-extra-terrestrial-

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    SpaceChain isn't the first blockchain project seeking to go extra-terrestrial -- far from it. There have been a whole host of projects competing to advance blockchain in space, like Nexus, BitSpace, Spacebit, to name but a few.
John Kiff

Blockchain Mortgages Could Help The Impending Recession - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...d-help-the-impending-recession

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    "The sophistication that blockchain technology and smart contracts bring will lead to huge operational cost savings and the opening of new untapped markets."
John Kiff

Alchemy Opens Up Bitcoin Payment to 1.2 Million Merchants in Asia - 0 views

bitcoinist.com/-1-2-million-merchants-in-asia

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    Crypto payments service Alchemy launched its Hybrid Payment Solution, allowing merchants in Asian and Middle Eastern markets to easily accept bitcoin and crypto payments.
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Binance Is Pitching Its Stablecoin as a Government-Friendly Libra Competitor - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/ment-friendly-libra-competitor

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  • John Kiff on 18 Sep 19
     
    Binance is now explicitly positioning its Venus localized fiat-backed stablecoin project as a government-friendly alternative to Libra.
John Kiff

Deprived of cash: poorer areas worst hit by rapid move to fee-charging cashpoints - 0 views

press.which.co.uk/...ove-to-fee-charging-cashpoints

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  • John Kiff on 18 Sep 19
     
    Consumer watchdog Which? reported that one in 10 free cashpoints across the UK have closed or switched to charging a fee for withdrawals. Poorer communities, which tend to rely more heavily on cash for payments, had been hit the hardest.
John Kiff

UK state of pay - 0 views

www.vocalink.com/stateofpay

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  • John Kiff on 18 Sep 19
     
    More than one in every 10 new accounts opened in the UK is now with a fintech firm, the report by payments firm Vocalink finds.
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Modern money is crawling with nasty bacteria - 0 views

www.fastcompany.com/...s-crawling-with-nasty-bacteria

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  • John Kiff on 18 Sep 19
     
    Modern money is crawling with nasty bacteria. It's not a public hazard, but scientists find that some currencies are particularly gross.
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Funding Market Tremors: Today May Not Have Been "The Big One," But It Was Bad Enough - 0 views

streetwiseprofessor.com/-big-one-but-it-was-bad-enough

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  • John Kiff on 18 Sep 19
     
    Clearing/margining make markets more tightly coupled: the need to meet margin calls within hours increases the potential stress on the funding markets. Unlike in the pre-Frankendodd days, there is no "fuck you" option when your counterparty calls for margin. You don't pay, you are in default. This tight coupling makes the market more vulnerable to operational failings.
John Kiff

Digital challenges to the international monetary and financial system (Benoit Coeure) - 0 views

www.ecb.europa.eu/...cb.sp190917~9b63e0ea23.en.html

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    "Libra has undoubtedly been a wake-up call for central banks to strengthen their efforts to improve existing payment systems. This by itself is undoubtedly a win-win situation for the global community. Progress made by those central banks already operating at the technological frontier can be expected to increase the speed of technological diffusion across borders."
John Kiff

HKMA and the BIS sign operational agreement on the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Hong Kong - 0 views

www.bis.org/p190918.htm

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    The BIS and the HKMA have today signed an Operational Agreement on the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Hong Kong. The Hub will identify and develop in-depth insights into critical trends in technology affecting central banking... Hub Centres will be set up in Hong Kong, Singapore and Basel, Switzerland, in the initial phase.
John Kiff

Cambridge Judge Business School: 2nd Global Enterprise Blockchain Benchmarking Study - 0 views

www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/...-blockchain-benchmarking-study

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  • John Kiff on 18 Sep 19
     
    The second edition of the Global Enterprise Blockchain Benchmarking Study provides new insights into the current state of the enterprise blockchain ecosystem. The study gathers survey data from 160 start-ups, established companies, central banks, and other public-sector institutions from 49 different countries worldwide. The empirical analysis specifically focuses on enterprise blockchain networks that have entered in production.
John Kiff

People With Least Knowledge Most Positive on Crypto's Future: ING Survey - CoinDesk - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/e-on-cryptos-future-ing-survey

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  • John Kiff on 18 Sep 19
     
    People with less knowledge about cryptocurrency are the most likely to be positive on its future, according to ING, based on a survey of about 1,000 mostly Europeans.
John Kiff

Circle Research 2Q19 Crypto Retrospective - 0 views

research.circle.com/...2q19-crypto-retrospective

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  • John Kiff on 18 Sep 19
     
    This Circle Research report identifies innovative work by the technical community on developing and experimenting with sustainable governance and funding models and the analytical community on creating innovative ways to evaluate crypto networks.
John Kiff

VanEck, SolidX Withdraw Bitcoin ETF Proposal From SEC Review - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/n-etf-proposal-from-sec-review

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  • John Kiff on 17 Sep 19
     
    Cboe BZX Exchange withdrew its VanEck/SolidX bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal on September 17.
John Kiff

The ascent of digital money - 0 views

www.bostonglobe.com/...story.html

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  • John Kiff on 17 Sep 19
     
    If the United States is smart, it will wake up and start competing for dominance in digital payments. The shortest cut to a system to rival Alibaba and Tencent is called Libra, the digital currency proposed by Facebook, which, with its 2.4 billion active users, is uniquely positioned to create something on a Chinese scale, and fas
John Kiff

Wells Fargo to Pilot Internal Settlement Service Using Distributed Ledger Technology - 0 views

www.businesswire.com/...Settlement-Service-Distributed

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  • John Kiff on 17 Sep 19
     
    Wells Fargo is developing a USD-linked stablecoin that will run on the firm's first blockchain platform. "Wells Fargo Digital Cash" will be used in a pilot initially for internal cross-border settlement across the company's global network.
John Kiff

FINMA Application From Facebook's Libra Might Not Be Good Enough To Satisfy Regulators - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...d-enough-to-satisfy-regulators

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  • John Kiff on 17 Sep 19
     
    Switzerland's FINMA has made it clear that a) all applicable AML/KYC regulations would have to be observed, and b) a payment system license from may not be enough.
John Kiff

Hedera Hashgraph blockchain goes live with 26 dApps - 0 views

finance.yahoo.com/...chain-goes-live-064540946.html

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  • John Kiff on 17 Sep 19
     
    Hedera Hashgraph, a new public blockchain network that claims to be faster than Ethereum and Bitcoin networks, has launched its mainnet beta for the general public. Hedera also offers smart contract and file services, and both are currently throttled to 10 transactions per second.
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