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6 Jan 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
The Stellar Foundation announced on Jan. 4 that it had signed an agreement with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine to establish a virtual assets ecosystem. The partnership will see the two bodies create a strategy for digital currenci...
4 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk
Gov of Ukraine Picks Stellar to Help Build National Digital Currency - CBDC Well here we are 4th of January 2021 and the CBDC race is heating up! Recall a CBDC is a Central bank digital currency What has been done thus far in regard to CBDC in Uk...
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...
2 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cryptopsycho21
How Fair is Fair? One of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency’s main advantages is that it should be a fair system of currency. But how fair are we talking about? It sounds fair and very logical, but does that mean that it can’t be manipulated to one’s advan...
1 Jan 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Craig Borysowich
As countries look to rollout a CBDC for general retail use, there are various issues related to the representation, portability and verifiability of value in connected and disconnected environments that create challenges for many payment use cases....
31 Dec 2020 2 minute read 3 comments Theincomebeast
Everyday we hear more and more talk about central bank digital currency (CBDC) It also seems like everyday there is a different central bank talking about launching their own CBDC. I wrote a short post about China launching a CBDC here. I do not th...
26 Dec 2020 2 minute read 3 comments MISSSUAREZ
We are at a peculiar moment in the history of money, one in which the nation-states that competed with conventional currencies begin to digitize them, in order to make their monetary policy more effective in some cases, or to make borders between cou...
22 Dec 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Giorgi Mikhelidze
As the world evolves, so too do new technologies in financial technologies improve. Cryptocurrencies revolutionized the standards of payments. The plot twist is, central banks feel threatened by the presence of cryptos such as Bitcoin and are making...
7 Dec 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
JD.com, one of China’s largest online retailers, will accept the country’s digital yuan CBDC as a means of payment, according to a Reuters report published on Dec. 5. JD.com, an online mall, will support the CBDC as China prepare for its shopping se...
6 Dec 2020 2 minute read 9 comments alberdioni8406
The Chinese City of Suzhou, one of the cities that will be testing the digital yuan also dubbed digital currency electronic payment -DCEP, will receive almost $3 million in form of lottery to test the coin. The lottery will be in red packets containi...
