Libra (LBA) & Facebook

Jack Dorsey starts with the memories of the early days of Twitter. When it was decentralized and some people were saying they should continue that way. Yet, the dangers of the modern Internet influenced the development and Twitter was intensively centralized to solve several troubles.However, now Twitter CEO is seeing some new challenges and he claims that centralized social media cannot solve them. For instance, centralized enforcement of global policies cannot address abuse and misleading...

For some time now, Japan’s banking sector has faced many challenges arising from money laundering. This problem has been in the limelight since the Financial Action Task Force found “numerous and serious deficiencies” back in 2014. Japan has long been blamed for weak measures that it has set up against money laundering and terrorism financing.In that context, the U.S. banking multinational, JPMorgan Chase & Co, is looking to launch an Interbank Information Network (IIN) in the East Asian...

Saga Monetary Technologies announced on Tuesday it decided to launch its SGA stablecoin that is pegged to a basket of currencies. The Saga Foundation said it was planning it since the last year to become a long term playing asset. However, it is meant to tailor to pretty much different goals of the crypto space.One is acting as a stablecoin as it is and another, to act as a free-float asset. Ido Sadeh Man, founder and chairman at the organization said the main idea behind the whole project...

Steemit was launched in July 2016 and can become a good additional network for Tron‘s business model.According to the Mars Finance Weibo channel, Justin Sun said that his company had received two new companies during a series of acquisitions. Later, the secret source in TRON told Mars Finance that the plans to unite with Steemit are true. More than that, a Chinese news website Huoxing24 reported the same information, however, the article is gone from their website at the time of...

Sequel to earlier reports that its digital currency was in the works, the Chinese are reportedly set to test its new digital currency electronic payment (DC/EP) in two cities of Shenzen and Suzhou. Sources further indicate that the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) will become the first Central Bank in the world to introduce its digital currency. It has also further emerged that the PBoC is set to work with seven state-owned corporate entities to run this test: three telecoms companies and four...

The new EOS-based social network Voice in its beta version will start on 14 February 2020 and is set to reward users with its token, thus bringing the desired freedom of speech and ad-hoc monetization that lacks in other social networks. Presented by Creators of EOS, Voice will Not Manipulate Data Particularly, using the blockchain technology, Voice can set all its operations to move through blockchain. When blockchain records inner operations of the network, it is impossible to insert...

The European Union has finally made its position clear on the issue of global stablecoins being deployed and used within its borders. The Council and the Commission explained their position in a joint statement. While the authorities acknowledged the importance of technological innovations which can be of great advantage to the financial sector, they also acknowledged the problems and risks that come from such an arrangement. They include money laundering, cybersecurity, privacy consumer...

Trials for a French wholesale central bank digital currency will kick off next year.France is responding to the threat posed by Facebook’s Libra to monetary policy sovereignty.The EU country is hoping to be the first to issue a wholesale CBDC.Immediately after Facebook announced its plans for a global cryptocurrency, France emerged as one of the social media giant’s biggest opposition to Libra. One of the arguments that French officials put forward in their case against Libra then was that...

« Le 18 juin 2019, Facebook a rendu public un projet de cryptomonnaie baptisé Libra. Ambitieux, il rassemble au sein d’un consortium plusieurs géants du numérique afin de créer « la devise d’Internet ». Dans le même temps, Libra a suscité de vives réactions de la part des autorités publiques et des régulateurs, d’aucuns évoquant une atteinte à la souveraineté monétaire des Etats. Au-delà des...

Kelly Loeffler – the CEO of Bakkt, the institutional crypto trading platform owned and governed by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – has been hired to take over a temporarily vacant Senate seat.Can Kelly Loeffler Push Crypto in Government?Many see this maneuver as a positive step and believe that perhaps crypto will now have a friend in the U.S. Congress. Bakkt was first announced in late 2018, but it took nearly a full year for the platform to get off the ground. After several months of...