Libra (LBA) & Facebook

Nationalbankgebäude am Bundesplatz in Bern Foto CC 3.0 by Baikonur, Wikimedia Die Schweizer Nationalbank SNB hat angekündigt, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Schweizer Börse SIX eine digitale Zentralbankwährung einführen zu wollen. Wie der Präsident der SNB, Thomas Jordan, mitteilte, soll die digitale Währung vor allem eine einfachere Methode für den Transfer von Vermögenswerten...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 727. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen:  Ende für den Krypto Rubel, Telegram reagiert auf Verbot der US-Börsenaufsicht, Fiat System Crash und Neuanfang mit Goldstandard. 1.) Russland: Aus für den Krypto-Rubel?https://www.btc-echo.de/russland-aus-fuer-den-krypto-rubel/ 2.) Telegram reagiert auf Verbot der US-Börsenaufsichthttps://bitcoin-kurier.de/telegram-reagiert-auf-verbot-der-us-boersenaufsicht/...

Back in June, Live Bitcoin News reported that an online banking firm, Current, wasn’t very happy with Facebook or Libra, claiming that the project had potentially stolen its logo. Now, that anger has turned into a full-fledged lawsuit.Current Takes Facebook to CourtCurrent has filed suit against Facebook in a New York district court for allegedly stealing the logo of its company. When looking at the two examples, one can see that the bank’s properties may have been stolen. The logos of both...

Authorities are waking up when it comes to cryptocurrencies. In the past month alone, we saw a couple of very serious actions taken against major projects in the field. Facebook’s Libra, Block.one’s EOS, Telegram, KIK, all of them and more saw challenges in the face of lawmakers and regulators across the board. A lot of people, especially those who felt like Telegram was a scam and Libra was a “centralized Bitcoin” embraced the news with sort of positivity. Amid this legislative chaos,...

Dass Facebooks Libra keine echte Konkurrenz zum Bitcoin werden kann, ist für Langzeitinvestoren offensichtlich. Bitcoin ist eine Art digitales Gold, während der Libra wohl nur eine zentralisierte Fiat-Währung in Cryptocoinform werden wird. Doch auch auf dem Gebiet des Libra schickt sich Bitcoin an, den Facebook Cryptocoin noch vor seiner Markteinführung zu überflügeln.Bitcoin News: Bitcoin als Alternative zum Facebook CryptocoinBlock Matrix ist ein Beispiel dafür, wie der Bitcoin Markt gerade...

Recently we reported about how PayPal, one of the founding members of the Libra Association abandoned the whole project. However, it seems it wasn’t the only one. Just for a reminder, there were previously 28 members of the association, but it seems that they couldn’t handle the issues Libra is currently facing, most especially the problems surrounding regulatory support from relevant authorities. Now Mastercard, Visa, eBay, and payments firm Stripe have decided not to participate in...

Mastercard, Visa, eBay, Stripe et Mercado Pago se retirent officiellement de l’Association Libra qui doit tenir sa première réunion officielle la semaine prochaine, au cours de laquelle les 23 membres restants signeront la charte du groupe. L’incertitude réglementaire et surtout les pressions politiques auront eu raison de l’engagement de ces sociétés. Article de Nikhilesh De et Brady Dale à lire sur Coindesk

Libra is often touted as the Facebook cryptocurrency, but according to Alex Karasulu – CEO and founder of OptDyn – this isn’t necessarily true.Alex Karasulu: Libra Better Than PayPal?In a recent interview, he seeks to answer questions regarding Libra and clear up some of the “myths and legends” that surround it. For example, he comments that Libra will not necessarily be a cryptocurrency in the way bitcoin, Ethereum or Litecoin is, but rather it will be a payment system much like PayPal. In...

For a long time now, FAANG stocks have been the unofficial standard by which the S&P 500 is measured. FAANG which is an acronym for five of the biggest tech and internet companies – including Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet Inc., – were regarded by investors, traders and even analysts alike, as the stocks that account for a large percentage of the general returns gotten from the index.For the better part of 2018, FAANG pulled in amazing returns for investors...

According to the latest report from Yahoo Finance, the chairman of the United States Commodities and Futures Trading Commission called Ethereum (ETH) a commodity.Speaking at the Yahoo Finance Summit, CFTC chairperson Heath Tarbet said that the ETH token falls under the regulatory oversight of CFTC. He further added that in the near future, one cannot rule out the possibility of having Ethereum futures in the market. Tarbet said:“We’ve been very clear on bitcoin: bitcoin is a commodity. We...