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John Kiff

Facebook confirms it will launch a cryptocurrency called Libra in 2020 - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...rrency-calibra-wallet-announce

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  • John Kiff on 18 Jun 19
     
    Because Facebook owns Calibra and also has a seat on the Libra Association, it will be the only entity on the currently 29-member board that will effectively have two votes. But the governing structure of the Libra Association is still evolving.
John Kiff

Facebook's Calibra is a secret weapon for monetizing its new cryptocurrency - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...in-weil-david-marcus-interview

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  • John Kiff on 18 Jun 19
     
    Calibra is how Facebook intends to make money off Libra. More generally, it's a massive play for Facebook to get into financial services in a way that no other technology company may be able to compete with.
John Kiff

Alphaville's Libra cheat sheet - 0 views

ftalphaville.ft.com/...Alphaville-s-Libra-cheat-sheet

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  • John Kiff on 18 Jun 19
     
    After months and months of speculation, Facebook has finally revealed the details of its would-be cryptocurrency challenger.
John Kiff

JPMorgan Says Importance of Bitcoin Futures Has Been Understated - 0 views

www.bloomberg.com/...n-futures-has-been-understated

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  • John Kiff on 17 Jun 19
     
    The overstatement of trading volumes by cryptocurrency exchanges, and by implication the understatement of the importance of listed futures, suggests that market structure has likely changed considerably since the previous spike in Bitcoin prices in end-2017 with a greater influence from institutional investors.
John Kiff

Singapore and UK to Enhance Financial Sector Cyber Security Cooperation - 0 views

www.mas.gov.sg/...UK-to-Enhance-Cooperation.aspx

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  • John Kiff on 17 Jun 19
     
    The MAS (the Monetary Authority of Singapore), BOE (Bank of England) and FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) have announced they will be working together to strengthen cyber security in their financial sectors.
John Kiff

Detecting Facial Manipulations in Adobe Photoshop - 0 views

theblog.adobe.com/nipulations-in-adobe-photoshop

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  • John Kiff on 17 Jun 19
     
    Researchers from Adobe and UC Berkeley have created a tool that uses machine learning to automatically identify when photos of people's faces have been altered.
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Cryptocoin computer code fails to deliver on promoter claims - 0 views

columbialawreview.org/...coin-operated-capitalism

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  • John Kiff on 17 Jun 19
     
    This paper analyzes the white papers of the fifty top-grossing ICOs of 2017, how the software code controlling the projects' ICOs reflected their disclosures. Most promised forms of investor protection that the code did not deliver and 12 allowed modifications to the way the smart contract worked, but only four of them disclosed that ability.
John Kiff

Introduction to Central Bank Digital Currencies (2/2) - 0 views

hackernoon.com/al-currencies-2-2-31228c20835b

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  • John Kiff on 17 Jun 19
     
    This article details how CBDC can be implemented, comparing three possible DLT-based options (Corda, Hyperledger Fabric, and Quorum) on privacy, scalability/performance, resiliency and finality.
John Kiff

Cryptocurrenices and Sharia Law: Halal or Haram? - 0 views

hackernoon.com/aw-halal-or-haram-ec8d46211580

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  • John Kiff on 16 Jun 19
     
    According to this article there are three main cryptos that comply with Sharia law; Stellar's Lumen (XLM), OneGramCoin (OCG) and X8Currency (X8C).
John Kiff

Millions across South America hit by massive power cut - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...entina-uruguay-paraguay-brazil

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  • John Kiff on 16 Jun 19
     
    Millions of people across Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil were left without power early on Sunday after a massive power failure hit all four countries.
John Kiff

Facebook's New Cryptocurrency, Libra, Gets Big Backers - 0 views

www.wsj.com/...y-gets-big-backers-11560463312

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  • John Kiff on 16 Jun 19
     
    Facebook Inc. has signed up more than a dozen companies including Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. to back a new cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week and launch next year.
John Kiff

Facebook to launch Libra Blockchain testnet next week, backed by Libra Reserve - 0 views

www.theblockcrypto.com/...t-week-backed-by-libra-reserve

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  • John Kiff on 15 Jun 19
     
    Facebook and dozens of partners are set to unveil the Libra Association and Libra Blockchain next week. The Libra Blockchain will be backed by Libra Reserve, a reserve of real assets that will provide the cryptocurrency with "stability, low inflation, global acceptance, and fungibility. The Libra Blockchain will be open-sourced under an Apache 2.0 License as of the day of the announcement, and a testnet will be launched at the same time.
John Kiff

Is Facebook's Libra the Dollar's Killer App? - 0 views

www.aier.org/...books-libra-dollars-killer-app

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  • John Kiff on 15 Jun 19
     
    "Facebook's Libra will pay interest to those who hold it at an equivalent rate at which banks earn interest on their deposits at the Fed. Which in turn will make people begin to wonder why the legacy banking system is not so generous with its depositors. This will put populist pressure on banks and new scrutiny on their relationship with the Fed."
John Kiff

Jack Dorsey on bitcoin, Facebook's crypto, and the end of cash - 0 views

qz.com/...oks-crypto-and-the-end-of-cash

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  • John Kiff on 14 Jun 19
     
    "If you consider the internet to be the equivalent to a nation state, it should have a currency native to itself, and there is not going to be any one party or institution that makes this happen, and there's not going to be any one party or institution that can stop it from happening. And having a global currency that is native to the internet will allow companies like ours to move much faster and reach a lot more people."
John Kiff

Central bank digital currency (CBDC) and financial inclusion - 0 views

cenfri.org/...y-cbdc-and-financial-inclusion

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  • John Kiff on 14 Jun 19
     
    Key findings suggest that mobile money may be a positive use case for CBDC, but it is not without potential risks. The application of retail CBDC to mobile money has the potential to foster greater interoperability, improve payment efficiency, facilitate cost-saving gains by minimising reconciliation complexity and notional costs, as well as reduce the key payment risks that are typically associated with mobile money.
John Kiff

How blockchain takes us back to medieval times - 0 views

ftalphaville.ft.com/...akes-us-back-to-medieval-times

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  • John Kiff on 14 Jun 19
     
    From the standpoint of secure, accessible books and records, DLT represents an important step forward. From a funding perspective, it is a gigantic step backward.
John Kiff

Brazil's major government and financial authorities team up to develop a Fintech sandbox - 0 views

www.cvm.gov.br/...20190613-1.html

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  • John Kiff on 14 Jun 19
     
    Brazil's central bank, finance ministry, and the country's financial sector regulators have teamed up to develop a Fintech regulatory sandbox.
John Kiff

Facebook's New Cryptocurrency, Libra, Gets Big Backers - 0 views

www.wsj.com/...y-gets-big-backers-11560463312

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  • John Kiff on 14 Jun 19
     
    Facebook won't directly control the coin, nor will the individual members of the consortium-known as the Libra Association. Some of the members could serve as "nodes" along the system that verify transactions and maintain records of them, creating a brand-new payments network.
John Kiff

Facebook's 'stablecoin' punt raises questions for regulators - 0 views

www.ft.com/...0c-8dd6-11e9-a24d-b42f641eca37

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  • John Kiff on 13 Jun 19
     
    The best way to understand [where Facebook's stablecoin fit in the grand scheme of things] is to look at an admirably punchy speech that Tobias Adrian, head of the markets division at the IMF, recently gave to a meeting of central bankers in Zurich.
John Kiff

Should Central Banks Issue Digital Currency? - 0 views

www.philadelphiafed.org/...wp19-26.pdf

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  • John Kiff on 13 Jun 19
     
    Philadelphia Fed researchers find that a central bank digital currency might promote efficiency in exchange, but could raise bank funding costs. However, by appropriately choosing the interest rate it pays on CBDC, the central bank can balance these competing concerns.
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