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French Authorities Seize 140,000 Masks Destined for Black Market

26 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

Police forces in France reported that they have seized about 140,000 face masks destined for sale on the black market after they caught a businessman unloading the masks from a truck into a house in Saint Denis, France. Among the confiscated stock in...

Dutch Central Bank Ready to Lead Digital Euro Initiative

22 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

The central bank of the Netherlands, the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), on April 21 published a 45-page report that speaks of its interest in “leading” the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) initiative, going over topics such as its own efforts in de...

France Launched An Experimental Program To Try Out The Digital Euro!

5 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment heisenberg199

The French Central Bank launched an experimental program to test the integration of the digital euro into mediation procedures. According to the statement made by the bank, the purpose of the program is to explore the potentials offered by technolog...

New to Crypto? - European Exchange and Trading

27 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Ascii4rt

If you already have been in Crypto for a while this post is not intended for you. If you're new to the Crypto Space and are trying to get a foot in to Cryptocurrency, this post might be for you.   There are a lot of exchanges out there. Many in Asia...

Economic crisis 2020: Can a decentralised financial system save us?

21 Mar 2020 6 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

The corona crisis urges states and central banks to take extreme measures. Without gigantic debts and inflated central bank balance sheets, our system can no longer be saved - we are facing an economic crisis. Why our interest rate system is currentl...

Bitcoin (BTC) recovers - ECB prepares monumental crisis package

20 Mar 2020 4 minute read 0 comments SylarHeisenberg

The ECB is putting together an unprecedented crisis package to mitigate the damage to the economy caused by the corona crisis. The bond purchase program could have devastating consequences on the stock markets. The Bitcoin price (BTC) and the crypto...

A monetary solution for Europe

7 Mar 2020 9 minute read 0 comments Andrea Benetton

Originally published at thefielder.net on September 30th, 2013. The issue regarding the exit of a member country from the euro currency is a recurring theme in the political debate of recent years. In Italy it meets the consensus of those who would r...

Blockchain and EU - Good News or Bad News?

26 Feb 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Teodor

I just found out that the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) went live few days ago, on February 12, 2020. Good news, or bad news for us?!  Good news is that the blockchain use cases are expanding, bad new is that European Commission...

First Underground Counterfeit Cigarette Factory Shut Down in EU

21 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite

An illegal cigarette factory was discovered and shut down in the province of Malaga, Spain, where 20 people were arrested and 6 Ukrainian and Lithuania workers were found gasping for breath in a bunker under horse stables after an air pump's generato...

Frexit - Improbable or Inevetable

8 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Virendar

As Brexit has happened and talks are well under way it would serve us well to have a gander across the channel, on the continent. France, a cornerstone of the EU, seems like an unlikely candidate for the next country to leave the union, provided that...