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Financial regulators in Australia are looking to put more pressure on Libra.Libra Is Getting Reamed… AgainA new report suggests that Facebook and Libra executives failed to follow proper Australian protocols. This is raising concerns with members of the Australian government, who are now looking to learn all they can before the currency is set to debut in 2020.Facebook’s Libra has had a rocky history. The coin was first introduced back in June of 2019 to rather lackluster reception. The...

It’s a big win for Chinese tech giant Tencent as Hong Kong’s top-most regulator – Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) – has recently granted them a new license to open a virtual bank.On Friday, November 8, speaking at the World Blockchain Summit in Wuzhen, China, Tencent’s chief of blockchain division – Yige Cai – said that his company has received a go-ahead from the SFC to open blockchain-based virtual banking system in the country.Although not many details of the bank’s launch are...

Facebook Libra lead David Marcus doesn’t believe bitcoin is a currency. Its volatility keeps it from becoming a currency, he explained. Bitcoin is more aking to ‘digital gold’, according to the Facebook executive. Facebook’s crypto frontman David Marcus, provided bitcoin with a backhanded compliment on Wednesday. According to the Libra lead, bitcoin is a dead ringer for digital gold, but not an appropriate currency. Speaking at the New York Times DealBook Conference, Marcus praised...

Die US-Notenbank sucht in einer Stellenausschreibung nach Bitcoin-Experten. In einer Stellenausschreibung sucht die US-Notenbank einen Experten im Bereich Kryptowährungen. Die Idee einer digitalen Zentralbank wird somit immer konkreter. US-Notenbank sucht Krypto-Experten Am 4. November gab die US-Notenbank eine Stellenbeschreibung heraus. Mit dieser nehmen die amerikanischen...

Frankfurt am Main: Gebäudekomplex der Europäischen Zentralbank Foto cc 3.0 by Epizentrum, Wikipedia Die europäische Zentralbank bekommt weiche Knie: Facebooks Libra bringe das bisherige Finanzsystem ins Wanken. Deshalb rüstet die Zentralbank zum Gegenangriff und überlegt, eine eigene Digitalwährung auf den Markt zu bringen. Hervor geht dies aus einem Entwurf der finnischen...

Someone should tell Joseph Lubin, the co-creator of Ethereum, that he needs to make up his mind about Libra.Lubin: Libra Is a Good SystemSeriously, in a new interview with CNBC, Lubin states that he likes Libra, but that Facebook isn’t the company who should be behind the wheel. This completely differs from an interview he gave in late October in which he describes the cryptocurrency as a “weapon of mass societal manipulation.”In his latest discussion, Lubin explained:I’m a big fan of...

The People’s Bank of China signed a partnership with Huawei, reportedly to develop blockchain technology for China’s sovereign digital currency. It comes just a week after Xi Jinping pledged that China would “take the leading position” in blockchain. Zuckerberg’s ominous warning – that China could erode America’s “financial leadership” – is slowly materializing. Last month Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress and delivered a warning to lawmakers: get behind digital currency...

The fate of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is pretty much hanging in the balance and has somewhat been so since it was first announced a few months ago. There has been so much backlash from authorities, with Congress specifically asking Facebook to halt the development progress until further notice. Now according to Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, the biggest problem that the Libra faces is Facebook itself.Lubin recently spoke to CNBC’s Squawk Box, and specifically mentioned Facebook’s...

Social media giant Facebook has unveiled its new company logo as part of the rebranding efforts. Facebook says that the new branding strategy is to bring more clarity and align the goals of its different products and services under one parent company.In its official announcement, the company said that over the last 15 years, it has made several major acquisitions like Instagram and WhatsApp. Thus, to bring clarity that these services operate under Facebook, it is isolating the Facebook...

Bitcoin Podcast Im aktuellen Podcast von Anita Posch spricht Jonas Schnelli. Schnelli ist Bitcoin Core Programmierer und seit 2011 aktiv an der Entwicklung des Codes beteiligt. Als einer von nur sechs Maintainern weltweit sorgt er für die “Drecksarbeit”, das sorgfältige Kontrollieren und Testen des Codes bevor Neuerungen implementiert werden. Er ist Co-Gründer von SHIFT...