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6 scenarios that could lead 2020 into a global economic crisis

21 Mar 2020 8 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

As urgent as the protection of the population from the corona virus is, we are heading for a global economic crisis in the course of the international shutdown. In contrast, the financial crisis of 2008 appears comparatively harmless. What crash scen...

The best Start Up of Southern Europe according to official Awards

17 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ManCrypto

The best start-up in southern Europe is Italian, according to yesterday's South Europe Startup Awards   The best Blockchain startup in Southern Europe arrives from Bolzano. Her name is Ecosteer, she is incubated at the NOI Techpark and was awarded ye...

An Update on the Covid-19 Pandemic - Focus on Europe

16 Mar 2020 1 minute read 2 comments AverageVancouverite

An estimated 6,065 are dead as 162,687 people worldwide have tested positive for the Covid-19 (Sars-CoV-2) coronavirus. Though the pandemic started in China, daily new cases there have dropped to single figures. Europe is currently one of the most im...

Europechain launches Ambassador Programme – names Menno Verheij as Ambassador

9 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Jillian Godsil

Europechain has launched an Ambassador programme to support the rollout of GDPR-compliant blockchain across Europe and globally. The Ambassadors come from different countries and sectors in Europe but all have blockchain advocacy as their passion. Me...

The cryptocurrency exchange Derbit moves to Panama, Europe is not a country for bitcoin

13 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Roberto D.

The news was released on January 9th, so it is official, Derbit, a Dutch-based cryptocurrency exchange, will move its headquarters to Panama on February 10th; the reason, of course, is the introduction of the new European anti-money laundering legisl...

The new European anti-money laundering directive is starting, from January 2020 the cryptocurrency exchanges will have to comply

18 Dec 2019 4 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.

It was inevitable that it would happen, after all the EU had already been far behind compared to countries like the USA and Japan, so from next January the exchange platforms will have to worry about being compliant also with the new European anti-mo...

Negative impact of the new anti-money laundering rules in Europe, burst of blockchain companies closures

16 Dec 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.

Not only anonymous exchange and cryptocurrencies, apparently the new anti-money laundering rules that are about to be launched in Europe are already having an extremely negative impact on numerous blockchain companies of the old continent; Already la...

The new ECB governor demonstrates its openness to cryptocurrencies and stablecoin

13 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.

When a few months ago Christine Lagarde was appointed to replace Mario Draghi at the ECB, we pointed out that this appointment would entail a radical change in the approach of the EU institutions to the blochchain technology; in the following weeks a...

The French central bank is pressing on the EU institutions for a European CBDC

26 Nov 2019 1 minute read 1 comment Roberto D.

During the annual Capital Markets Technology and Innovation conference in Paris, held last November 21st, a senior official of the French central bank, Denis Beau (who is currently deputy governor) released a series of particularly interesting commen...

Brexit... The saga continues led by Bojo and his crew

8 Oct 2019 4 minute read 9 comments (S)llew la Wulf

I hate to bring up the B word but it is pressing...UK politics has become somewhat of a farce and cabaret act in this last few months (years) and I don't blame people for just wanting to ignore it all but fact is, it really isn't going away... Here i...