Sweden’s central bank plans to create a pilot platform for a new digital currency, called the e-krona, in latest in European CBDC news. Sweden’s central bank is planning plans to create a pilot platform for a digital currency known as the e-krona. While Switzerland took a negative stance towards a central bank digital currency (CBDC)…
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Today and in the past week, Cosmos (ATOM) is one of the best performing digital assets in the top 20, and is registering gains against BTC, ETH and the USD. At pixel time (14:34 UTC), ATOM, ranked 16th by market capitalization, trades at c. USD 4.05 and is up by 2% in a day and…
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Chinese Bitcoin mining giant Canaan Creative’s shares have seen a 40 percent drop in value since its initial public offering in November. Chinese Bitcoin (BTC) mining giant Canaan Creative’s depositary shares have seen a 40 percent drop in value since November initial public offering (IPO). Canaan was the first Bitcoin mining giant to go public…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Crypto exchanges news Lawyers representing users of the now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX are asking the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to conduct an exhumation and post-mortem autopsy on the Read more…
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An unexpected winner appears to have emerged in one of the most bizarre crypto mining stories of the year – one with a twist in the tale! The story, as reported by media outlet Xataka, begins at the studios of local authority-run television station in Andalucía, Spain, named Canal Málaga. Canal Málaga engineers had been…
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Lisk’s Lightcurve team reduces workforce by 40% in an attempt to reduce operational overheads and become more agile again. Blockchain development studio Lightcurve — a part of the Lisk open-source blockchain application platform — laid off 40% of its workforce earlier this week. Lightcurve and Lisk co-founder, Max Kordek, announced the decision earlier this week…
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Riot Blockchain announces additional 1,000 new Antminer S17-Pro mining rig purchase, bringing recent order totals to 4,000 in December. Cryptocurrency mining firm Riot Blockchain announced the purchase of an additional 1,000 next-generation Bitmain S17-Pro Antminers on Dec.12. This completes the upgrade of its Oklahoma City mining facility, following an initial purchase of 3,000 units announced…
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Russia’s biggest darknet community, Hydra, has released a white paper as it prepares to issue an initial coin offering (ICO) that it says will see token growth skyrocket by 700% by June next year. Hydra’s white paper takes the form of an investment memorandum (link here, although the memo can only be accessed using anonymity…
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The government of crypto-friendly Switzerland has said that there are no current benefits to issuing a digital franc. The government of cryptocurrency-friendly Switzerland has shot down the idea of issuing a digital Swiss franc, for now. According to a Dec. 13 press release published on the Federal Council’s website, the Federal Council approved a report…
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The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), hosted by the central bank of central banks, the BIS, has released a report which informs developers and market participants how wholesale digital tokens might look like. Today, wholesale payments between financial institutions are effected through central systems and payment arrangements using traditional account-based Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy…
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