Libra (LBA) & Facebook

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...

Alipay has indicated that it will ban Bitcoin transactions and all others related to cryptocurrency payments. In what seems like an extension on the cryptocurrency war that the Chinese government is waging, the electronic payments giant said in a tweet thread that it would terminate all cryptocurrency-related transactions.If any transactions are identified as being related to bitcoin or other virtual currencies, @Alipay immediately stops the relevant payment services.— Alipay (@Alipay)...

Ripple CEO, Garlinghouse, has sounded an alarm geared at calling the United States government to action, reiterating that China’s goal with the CBDC is to destabilize the US dollar. The CEO urged the government of the United States during an interview with Fox Business to be at the forefront of the crypto revolution, instead of China.Garlinghouse talked about the tech boom back in the early 2000s and how the US took control of the industry and benefited immensely from that...

As far as the stock market is concerned, Apple (AAPL) has had a pretty great 2019 so far. Already Apple’s stock has surged more than 43% this year alone, easily crowning it as the best performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial average. Consequently, even though the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has a larger market cap, Apple has so far performed better and also beat out other FAANG stocks including Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, and Google’s parent Alphabet.One of the major reasons ascribed to...