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John Kiff

Number go down - the single trade that crashed Bitcoin - 0 views

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    The Bitcoin price goes up and down with weird jumps in the graph - nicknamed "Barts," after the shape of Bart Simpson's haircut - the telltale signs of market manipulation.
John Kiff

Bitcoin price and its marginal cost of production: supporting evidence - 0 views

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    This study back-tests a marginal cost of production Bitcoin valuation model. The model, which JP Morgan uses for its valuation analysis, seems robust and challenges allegations that bitcoins are essentially worthless.
John Kiff

Lack of Banking Options a Big Problem for Crypto Businesses - 0 views

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    Banks, wary of the drug dealers and scammers attracted to the anonymity of cryptocurrency, shun many of the firms behind the electronic money, leaving them to turn to shadowy middlemen for payment processing and other financial services.
John Kiff

What Crypto Exchanges Do to Comply With KYC, AML and CFT Regulations - 0 views

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    The process of AML/CFT regulatory compliance involves KYC (know your customer) throughout transaction lifecycles. This post runs through the typical KYC process and compares different crypto exchange approaches.
John Kiff

Bitfinex Crypto Exchange to Debut New Exchange Utility Token - 0 views

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    Bitfinex has reportedly raised $1B worth of US dollars, Bitcoin and Tether with its UNUS SED LEO exchange utility token offering. LEO lies "at the heart of the [Bitfinex parent] iFinex ecosystem" and will be useable for a variety of exchange-based activities.
John Kiff

Crypto-Assets: Implications for financial stability, monetary policy, and payments and ... - 0 views

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    Crypto-Assets: Implications for financial stability, monetary policy, and payments and market infrastructures This ECB paper summarises the outcomes of the analysis of the ECB Crypto-Assets Task Force. It concludes, in the current market, crypto-assets' risks or potential implications are limited and/or manageable on the basis of the existing regulatory and oversight frameworks.
John Kiff

Bitcoin Tumbles After $35 Million Trade Triggers Wave of Selling - 0 views

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    The price of Bitcoin tumbled by 11% to about $7,000 after a $35 million sell order on London-based exchange Bitstamp triggered a rash of liquidations by other investors. Other digital currencies like Ethereum, Litecoin, XRP and Bitcoin Cash fell in sync.
John Kiff

Self Sovereign Identity Promises to Return The Power of Personal Data Protection to the... - 0 views

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    Self-sovereign identity promises to return personal data to the people providing it rather than letting it sit precariously in the hands of businesses that have repeatedly failed to secure it.
John Kiff

World Bank and CBA Partner to enable Secondary Bond Trading recorded on Blockchain - 0 views

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    World Bank and Commonwealth Bank have enabled secondary market trading recorded on blockchain for bond-i making this the first bond whose issuance and trading are recorded using distributed ledger technologies.
John Kiff

Facebook forms Swiss fintech firm with payments focus - 0 views

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    Facebook has set up a new Fintech company, Libra Holdings, in Switzerland focusing on blockchain and payments as well as data analytics and investing, Geneva's commercial register shows.
John Kiff

Coin Metrics Report Highlights Discrepancies in Ripple's Escrow System Reporting - 0 views

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    Blockchain analysis company Coin Metrics has found discrepancies in blockchain payments network Ripple's escrow system reporting.
John Kiff

Bahamas Securities Regulator Proposes Rules for Token Sales - 0 views

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    On April 2 the Securities Commission of the Bahamas has filed a draft of the new bill regulating token offerings not deemed securities. The bill lays out a procedure for registering such offerings and informing authorities and investors on the details of a token sale.
John Kiff

Fintech Collaboration between the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Bank of Thailand - 0 views

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    The Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Bank of Thailand have entered into an MOU to foster collaboration between the two regulatory authorities in promoting financial innovation.
John Kiff

Banks to invest around $50 million in digital cash settlement project - 0 views

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    Several of the world's largest banks are investing around $50M in Fnality to create a blockchain-based digital cash system to settle financial transactions. It may be an offshoot of the UBS and Clearmatics "utility settlement coin" project.
John Kiff

Digital Renminbi: A Fiat Coin to Make M0 Great Again - 0 views

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    Contrary to what many think, China does not oppose blockchain technology. Rather, it takes issue with bitcoin and other privately issued cryptocurrencies, which it fears may facilitate financial fraud and capital flight. The PBOC has in fact had an initiative for issuing a blockchain-based digital renminbi since 2014. The project has already generated 71 patents and has initiated a trial operation for an interbank digital check and billing platform.
John Kiff

Aries and ION: Two Different Perspectives of Decentralized Identity in Blockchain Appli... - 0 views

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    IBM and Microsoft have released new technologies focus on tackling the challenge of identity on permissioned and public blockchains respectively. The approaches are different but they give us a glimpse of how innovation is evolving in this space.
John Kiff

Another Gold Backed Token Launches - 0 views

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    A new digital token backed by $300 million worth of gold guaranteed by the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange has just been released in Hong Kong.
John Kiff

Six hackers charged over SIM swapping attacks - 0 views

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    Six individuals from 'The Community' hacking group have been charged with stealing over $2.4 million in cryptocurrency using the SIM swapping method.
John Kiff

MakerDAO Votes to Decrease Stablecoin Fees for First Time in 5 Months - 0 views

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    For the first time in five months, MakerDAO token holders have voted to decrease fees on all DAI loans. DAI is a dollar-pegged stablecoin operating on the ethereum blockchain backed by nearly 2 million ether tokens.
John Kiff

Stablecoins, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and Cross-Border Payments - 0 views

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    E-money adoption may be extremely rapid, but that it may raise significant risks. Policies to counter these risks yield a synthetic version of central bank digital currency with various advantages relative to the full-service version.
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