The European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has repeated her insistence that global regulators need to tighten the rules to ensure Bitcoin (BTC) falls under…
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Cointelegraph predictions for the first 5 CBDCs of 2021-2022
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have been an integral part of progressive discussions within the cryptocurrency community. CBDCs are virtual representations of the fiat currency…
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The US has already lost the 2020 crypto regulation race to Europe
2020 has been a stellar year for the crypto economy, with more enterprises and institutions than ever before implementing the technology. Big announcements, such as…
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Did CBDCs affect the crypto space in 2020, and what’s next in 2021? Experts answer
It is hard to imagine that just two years ago, the general discourse around central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, was mainly focused on the…
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The pandemic year ends with a tokenized carbon cap-and-trade solution
It has been a blazing start to a new decade, with 13% more large, uncontrolled wildfires around the world this year compared with 2019. This…
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Germany legalizes digitized securities
The German word for securities is wertpapieren, or “papers of worth,” which may soon be as outdated as nocturnal traders saying they’re burning the midnight…
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European Commission taking bids for blockchain pre-commercial procurement
The European Commission is inviting tenders for the European Union blockchain pre-commercial procurement, or PCP. In general, a PCP is a public sector purchase of…
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European central bankers predict that the digital euro is at least five years away
Several experts from various European banks agreed that even a proof of concept for a digital euro is four or five years away. In a…
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Big banks think new furniture is innovation, but they are wrong
When banks finally come to improve their technology experience, they go no deeper than changing the front end. They’ll make a button blue instead of…
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WTO blockchain report says customs remains ‘weak link’ of trade digitalization
The World Trade Organization and Trade Finance Global have published their latest taxonomy of blockchain projects in international trade, arranged into what they present as…
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