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Even as the U.S. Congress bites down hard on Facebook and the social media giant’s grand plans of issuing its own digital currency, a recent event has corroborated the general idea that the problem with the Libra might not be the fact that it’s a digital currency itself, but that it’s being issued by Facebook. This is because, two Rep members have revealed concerns about the inevitability of digital currencies in the near future, suggesting that the United States should start getting used to...
Read More »Philly Fed President Says Bank Cryptos are ‘Inevitable,’ but the U.S Won’t Take the Lead
It seems Patrick Harker, the president of the Philadelphia Fed, has finally got the memo, accepting that central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are “inevitable.” Still, that isn’t enough for America to take the lead on them. Harker, although extremely late to the party, made an important caveat on the U.S plans to create a CBDC. According to Reuters, speaking at a community banking conference on Wednesday, the Fed president addressed the unavoidable adoption of CBDCs. “It is inevitable I...
Read More »Crypto Advocate Ron Paul to Headline 2019 Litecoin Summit
Former U.S. Congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul will be headlining the Litecoin Summit. Paul will be sharing the stage in the luxurious Cosmopolitan hotel on the Las Vegas strip this October with Litecoin creator Charlie Lee and Morgan Creek Digital partner Anthony Pompliano.The LTC Foundation announced the surprise keynote speaker on Twitter Thursday:Cryptocurrency and PoliticsIn a CNBC Squawk Box interview this July, Ron Paul gave his enthusiastic endorsement to...
Read More »Central Bankers Remarkably at Odds Over Dollar & the Crypto Threat
Sometimes it’s good to remind ourselves how far crypto has come. Central bankers are now being forced to publicly defend the dollar as the global reserve currency against the rise of cryptocurrency.Fed official defends the dollar from Carney’s crypto threatLast month, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney argued the case for a Libra-esque cryptocurrency to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.His words triggered former Federal Reserve official Simon Potter, who was forced to...
Read More »Why Bitcoin Imploded & Where Experts Say BTC Goes Next
Yesterday's catastrophic market implosion thrust the bitcoin price into a devastating 17% downward spiral that saw it dive as low as $8,000 before stabilizing.Once the bleeding finally stopped, crypto investors were left with two paralyzing questions: what happened, and where does bitcoin go from here?Diagnosing Bitcoin's Brutal PlungeBTC/USD cascading amid a market sell-off | Source: TradingviewJaded investors got what they wished for Tuesday as volatility washed over bitcoin and the broader...
Read More »Bitcoin-Pumping Wealth Advisor Licks Chops Over Fed Meeting
A $10 billion wealth advisor predicts the next Fed rate cut will launch the bitcoin price to a new yearly high. There's just one problem. | Source: Jim WATSON / AFP (i), Jan von Uxkull-Gyllenband/Shutterstock (ii). Image Edited by CCN. The Federal Reserve will hold its next policy meeting tomorrow, and analysts predict that the US central bank will adopt its second...
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