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4 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk
Is ISO 20022 a replacement for SWIFT? What is ISO 20022? Executive Summary: ISO 20022 is an emerging global and open standard for payments messaging. or according to Wikipedia "is an ISO standard for electronic data interchange between financial i...
3 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
Recall all the ICO hype? Did you FOMO in? The ICO craze peaked in 2017-2018 (concurrently with the Crypto Bull then crash timeframe), how much was raised? CoinDesk’s ICO tracker shows that 2017, January to early September saw more than $1.7 billio...
28 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
SEC obtains Emergency Asset Freeze against Virgil Capital LLC The United States Security Exchange Commission (SEC) is on a tear the past week, this just in the SEC has obtained an Emergency Asset Freeze against Virgil Capital LLC. What is the order...
28 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
GreenPro Capital Corp created a $100 Million Bitcoin Investment Who is GreenPro Capital Corp? They are based in KUALA LUMPUR which is the capital city of Malaysia. They are known in the industry as GRNQ from their NASDAQ listing back in '18. There...
24 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
A privacy Non-profit signaled concern about US Gov. new rules on hosted wallets - DEFI Electronic Frontier Foundation (AKA EFF) stated US Government Will Expand Financial Surveillance Through FinCEN's Proposed Crypto Wallet Rules. EFF also stated "Fi...
22 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
Crypto Snippets from Week of Dec 21 '20 Lots of little stories this week Jeffereis LLC - Moving 5% from Gold allocation into BTC (another Financial behemoth) - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jefferies-wood-cuts-gold-exposure-140919878.html Micro...
21 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
Puerto Rican digital bank has received permission To Be A Crypto Custodian The Puerto Rican digital bank FV received permission from the local regulator to provide Bitcoin and Ethereum custody to retail and institutional investors. Puerto Rico is...
20 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Keith Thuerk
Are Crypto's the Canary in the coal mine? I have been giving a great deal to the thought that Cryptocurrencies can and will act as a Canary in the Coal mine of a major FIAT collapse! So what does that mean? A Canary in the coal mine - denotes an e...
18 Dec 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk
Coinbase IPO brought to you by... Goldman Sachs Yesterday Coinbase announced they would IPO (Initial Public Offering) aka going public. The info hit the newswire after they filed their S-1 form with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), reca...
18 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
The IMF warns that central banks may have to rethink what constitutes their reserve currency holdings While the world has been digesting the COVID-19 Pandemic the IMF has been busy performing a study on multiple items this year! So who is the IMF...
