The People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) deputy director Mu Changchun said that the digital form of the yuan will be different to Bitcoin (BTC) and stablecoins. Chinese news outlet South China Morning Post reported on Dec. 22 that the head of the digital currency research institute at the PBoC said that China’s digital currency would … Read more
Under the original Libra white paper, members of Libra’s governing body, the Libra Association, would receive dividends for profits generated by assets in the reserve. This created an incentive for decisionmakers to invest in risky assets for higher returns–at the expense of the retail public. I spent a little time looking at Libra’s white paper, and … Read more
We recently caught up with Glenn Austin, the chief financial officer at Dash Core Group (creator of DASH or Digital Cash), a major digital currency platform. Austin, a former VP at Morgan Stanley Investment Management who has worked at other big Wall Street names like UBS and Citi, discussed the main use cases for Dash. … Read more
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has cleared up some confusion about how cryptocurrency transactions are taxed, particularly regarding like-kind exchanges and promotional airdrops. As the tax agency intensifies its enforcement efforts, more people are seeking the best tax software to help them. Also read: Tax Guide: What Crypto Owners Should Know Pre-2018 Like-Kind Exchanges … Read more
If Facebook’s digital currency ever gets off the ground, it will threaten the business of China’s massively popular digital payment platforms Alipay and WeChat Pay, according to Tencent, one of the country’s largest tech companies. The news: According to a report by CoinDesk, Tencent, the company behind WeChat, published a Chinese-language report this week that … Read more
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has said that Facebook’s not-yet-released Libra stablecoin is “a neat idea that will never happen.” Dimon delivered his comments during a speech at the Institute of International Finance conference on Friday, BNN Bloomberg reported on Oct. 18. Dimon said that the idea behind Libra is not unique and further turned … Read more
Stablecoins pose a money laundering and terrorist financing risk to the world, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said Friday. In documents released after its latest meeting, the intergovernmental organization referred to cryptocurrencies as a “major strategic initiative,” and said cryptos whose values are pegged to fiat currencies could have a particularly big impact. Some … Read more
Denis Beau, the deputy governor of France’s central bank, Banque de France, recently delivered comments regarding the approach of central banks to cryptocurrencies. Establish appropriate cryptocurrency regulations On Oct. 16, Beau spoke at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum conference in London, where he discussed the role of cryptocurrency assets in today’s global financial payment … Read more
Forbes chairman and editor-in-chief Steve Forbes has described Bitcoin (BTC) as a “high-tech cry for help” driven by a lack of trust in traditional currencies. Speaking to Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood on her company’s podcast, he said Bitcoin’s challenge now is becoming a coin as trustworthy as gold — an assert that has earned its status the hard … Read more
Philadelphia Federal Reserve bank president Patrick Harker said it is “inevitable” for the central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, to start issuing digital currency. Speaking at a community banking conference in St. Louis, Harker argued that the U.S. should not be the first big country to issue a national coin, because technology is still … Read more