The Director of National Intelligence wants to have the SEC’s leader briefed on the dangers of the U.S. falling behind in crypto. The United States national security apparatus is warning other agencies about China’s upcoming digital currency. On Wednesday, news outlet the Washington Examiner reported on a letter that National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe had…
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Amid global economic contraction, Bitcoin appears to be gaining momentum against struggling fiat currencies. Bitcoin being regarded as “sound money” is a common refrain among many proponents of the popular cryptocurrency. With a finite supply of 21 million and a network secured by over 120 exahashes per second of computing power, the consensus among industry…
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Sounds like its CBDC is unlikely to dethrone the United States dollar as the world’s reserve currency anytime soon. David Roche, president and global strategist at Independent Strategy, believes that China’s digital yuan has “a long way” before it will become able to challenge the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency, CNDC reports Nov. 2.…
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Canada’s central bank recognizes that CBDCs are a necessarily international issue. Canada doesn’t want any “surprises” regarding central bank digital currencies. In a recent interview with Reuters, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem doubled down on the country’s contingency-plan approach to CBDCs, stressing that he sees no urgent need to issue one right now. For…
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$20,000 Bitcoin is back on the table if bulls clear this key resistance cluster. Bitcoin (BTC) price has been showing impressive strength in the previous weeks and today the price made a new 2020 high at $13,666. This momentum was made alongside weakness in the U.S. dollar and many analysts believe that as long as…
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Another global bank believes that digital assets are the future of the global economy. DBS, Singapore’s largest retail and commercial bank, seems to be entering the cryptocurrency space with three new offerings. According to information seen by Cointelegrpah, DBS is launching cryptocurrency trading and custody as well as a platform for conducting security token offerings.…
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The U.S. already has a “safe and active dynamic domestic payment system,” Powell argued. The United States will not be issuing a digital dollar until the Federal Reserve resolves all questions around a potential central bank digital currency, or CBDC, according to the Fed’s chairman, Jerome Powell. Powell claimed that he is not worried about…
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Stablecoins are taking over the crypto space with increased utility and circulation. What is prompting this growth, and is it a threat to the market? Despite this year’s uncertainty that has plagued the global economy, 2020 will go down as the year of the stablecoins due to the digital sector’s tremendous growth, with new developments…
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Since 2010, inflation has turned $1 into 84 cents while $1 invested in Bitcoin would be worth $274,000. Bad news — the increase in the Bitcoin (BTC) price over the past decade may have been overstated because of the accompanying fiat inflation. Since Bitcoin is typically denominated in fiat — United States dollars usually —…
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Can MIT help the U.S. catch up to China in the CBDC race? The MIT Digital Currency Initiative, or DCI, is helping the federal reserve bank of Boston build a digital currency with the goal of scaling for consumer use. The DCI’s director Neha Narula told Cointelegraph: “We’re trying to build a high throughput, low latency…
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