Central bank group organized for CBDC exploration Several central banks have announced the formation of an official group to evaluate potential cases of use of central bank digital currencies (CBDC). The new group will explore how emerging technologies can affect cross-border transactions and other functions of central banks. The group will be led by Benoit…
Justin Sun has news to attract new investors. From now on, PornHub can pay for its “models” with the stablecoin tether, via the TRON blockchain. According to Sun and Pornhub (no worries, safe for work) that is much needed. A few months ago, PayPal stopped paying out PornHub models. Lost your income in one fell…
On February 5, FTX announced a futures trading product called TRUMP, based on the re-election of President Donald Trump in 2020. In essence, TRUMP contracts can be worth $ 0 and $ 1. If Trump is re-elected, all contracts will be worth $ 1, and if not, they will be worth $ 0. “The initial…
Research company TradeBlock has been trying to find “Bitcoin mining profitability by halving the reward.” In the blog post, TradeBlock analysts calculated the cost of mining Bitcoin before and after halving. Their conclusions are that maintaining profitability will depend on an increase in the network hash rate and more efficient mining hardware. Half of the…
The Poloniex Exchange announced on Twitter that he encountered a software problem that generated “a series of transactions executed incorrectly”. As a result, the platform has completed a rollback of 12 minutes of transactions. The announcement did not detail the specific nature of these errors, but the result was that the trading was suspended for…
Over 40 banks have announced the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) that they are interested in providing crypto-custody services. According to a report published by the German news site Handelsblatt: “According to information from government circles, Bafin’s financial regulatory authority has already received over 40 expressions of interest from banks for permission to…
US President Donald Trump yesterday tabled the budget proposal for 2021, which includes the crypto industry issue. One of the aspects is moving the Secret Service under the authority of the US Treasury. Currently the Secret Service has the role of protecting the president and his family, as well as protecting the official US currency….
The uptrend of Bitcoin (BTC) slows after two months of bullish reversal, with a Classes faced with a strong technical resistance and one lack of volume. Key technical factors of the article: After more than 50% increase between mid-December to today, the upward trend is slowing in the bitcoin price, faced with strong technical resistance…
XRP hasn't had a good 2019 year, far from it. The third largest cryptocurrency, after Bitcoin and Ethereum, actually fell 50% against the dollar in 2019, which is well below 95% gain in Bitcoin and almost record performance on the stock market and in real estate. But, in recent weeks, the outlook for the main…
Listia is stopping work on the Ink protocol, a cryptocurrency created for the markets. The project was funded with a $ 15 million sale of XNK ERC-20 tokens. Listia, a used goods market, is now moving completely on the Props network, created by the startup Union Square Ventures supported by YouNow. "We are not closing…
