Libra (LBA) & Facebook

Réunis aujourd’hui à Berlin, les ministres des finances de la France, de l’Allemagne, de l’Italie, des Pays-Bas et de l’Espagne ont appelé la Commission européenne à élaborer une règlementation stricte pour les stablecoins, en particulier pour la Libra de Facebook : « Les Stablecoins ne devraient pas être autorisés à opérer dans l’Union européenne tant que les problèmes juridiques, réglementaires et de surveillance n’ont pas été...

Hey Informanten, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 968. Im heutigen Video geht’s um folgende Themen: Ist DeFi die Investmentchance des Jahrzehnts & Durchgesickerter Gesetzesentwurf zur europaweiten Kryptoregulierung 1.) DeFi is a ‚once in a decade investment opportunity‘ — True or false?https://cointelegraph.com/news/defi-is-a-once-in-a-decade-investment-opportunity-true-or-false 2.) Leaked draft shows European Union set to be first major jurisdiction to...

The number of web developers building applications on Ethereum has increased year-on-year since 2018. According to data from npm.stat, which displays the number of times a JavaScript code library has been downloaded, more Ethereum-specific code packages were downloaded in 2020 than in 2018 and 2019 combined.Ethereum ‘Buidlers’ Keep on BuildingThe two most commonly used JavaScript libraries in Ethereum are Ethers.js and Web3.js. Seen below, courtesy of ChainShot.com, the use of both code...

The leading American exchange Coinbase announced today a renewal of its board of directors, incorporating two prominent experts from the technology industry.In an official announcement posted on Coinbase’s blog, Brian Armstrong, the company’s CEO and co-founder explained that they had made two significant replacements to their board of directors.The Hello’sFirst on the list is Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most importnat players in...

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Seven US-based giant companies, namely Facebook Inc, Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Inc, Tesla Inc, and Salesforce.com Inc, gained nearly $300 billion in total market cap during yesterday’s trading session on Wall Street.This only goes to show how small the digital asset field is compared to the giants, as their one-day combined gains represent almost the entire crypto market cap.$282B Gained In A Day By 7 US CompaniesGreen dominated most tech-oriented stocks on Wall...

The Libra Association, the entity behind Facebook’s future Libra cryptocurrency, has appointed its second general counsel in three months. Previously acting as the general counsel at the Homeland Security Department, Stevan Bunnell has replaced Robert Werner as the new Chief Legal Officer.Libra Appoints A New CLOAccording to the Bloomberg Law report, Robert Werner, hired by Libra to serve as its first-ever general counsel in May, confirmed the news that Bunnell has taken over his job. Werner...

Many banks are beginning to issue their own digital currencies. It can be implied that the likes of Libra may have caused these banks to look into establishing such assets, but according to a new report, bitcoin is the real reason many of these institutions have taken the next steps.Bitcoin May Have Given Birth to Many Bank-Issued Digital CurrenciesLibra is a scary currency for most banks in that it’s looking to establish itself as a global currency that virtually every country can gain...

Central banks are now consistently looking to release their own centralized digital currencies. While these assets are nothing like bitcoin – the latter gives financial independence to its users, while the former currencies are controlled by individual firms – it’s likely that these coins will all get in the way of each other, and that the likes of both bitcoin and Facebook’s Libra will be competing head to head with many of these bank-issued currencies.Libra Is Scary to Most BanksOne of the...

Bitcoin and Libra may compete favourably in the global financial clime as several central banks plan to release their digital currencies.Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, is optimistic about the future of certain cryptocurrencies. According to Rajan, both Bitcoin and Libra may find a place in the global financial market as central banks begin to issue their own digital currencies.According to a CNBC report, Rajan referred to Bitcoin as a “speculative asset” and...