Tokyo’s new stablecoin could be one of the world’s most ambitious yet – after city authorities revealed plans to ensure that 50% of all payments made in the capital are made using the token by 2025. Per Nikkei, the city is banking on the fact that it already has a large range of infrastructure in…
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After YouTube’s attack on crypto-related videos that lasted for several days, forcing quite a few creators into hiding for self-preservation, now the Google-owned giant says it wasn’t intentional, followed by the YouTubers’ return from exile. YouTube has finally provided a response to the situation and to individual channels, following days of silence and Read more…
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Anyone harboring hopes that Beijing was softening its hardline stance on cryptocurrencies after its latest blockchain drive appears to have been thwarted – with a host of regulators in the country ruling out policy changes. The crypto crackdown of 2017 was sweeping, with initial coin offerings (ICOs) banned, exchanges exiled or closed down and trading…
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Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Central Bank of Russia. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Bank of Russia 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. Regulations news Russia’s Central Bank has said it is ready to test stablecoins in…
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Brokerage Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings has agreed to invest USD 4.6 million in Huobi’s Tokyo-based subsidiary Huobi Japan. Per a press release shared with Cryptonews.com, Huobi Japan CEO Haiteng Chen claimed that Tokai Tokyo’s decision to invest represented “greater mainstream recognition.” Chen stated, “Tokai Tokyo is a comprehensive securities firm, which Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin…
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YouTube has continued the attack against crypto-related videos, and the events in the past two days have made some content creators hide their videos, or just abandoned crypto content altogether. Others are calling for a YouTube boycott. As previously reported, the Google-owned American video-sharing giant has been restricting some crypto-related videos. Many more Read more…
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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. Adoption news Chinese internet giant and WeChat operator Tencent is reportedly putting together a digital currency research team. Chinese media outlet Ifeng News reports that Tencent issued an Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy…
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Google-owned American video-sharing giant, YouTube, has been restricting or even deleting some crypto-related videos, claim several channel owners and major crypto YouTubers. The news of this quickly spread on Twitter and Reddit. One of the first to sound the alarm seems to be Ben Perrin, the marketing director at bitcoin exchange Bull Bitcoin and a…
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Source: iStock/da-kuk The cryptocurrency market sentiment is not going through any dramatic events lately. We saw it rise slightly to 4.68 last week, and this Monday the combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure for the top 10 coins fell to 4.51/10, according to Omenics, a cryptocurrency market sentiment analysis service. This is less than…
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Source: iStock/ma-no The head of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC)’s digital currency research institute Mu Changchun has confirmed that a “digital form of the yuan” is on its way – but claimed that the digitized fiat would be “different from Bitcoin or stablecoins.” The PBoC chief also stated that the bank would not look…
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