G20 Crypto Regulations Could Unleash Real Blockchain Change

Twitter has been ripe for disruption for years now. People love to complain about it or leave in protest of how terrible it’s become. There have been many opportunities for Twitter to be challenged by a decentralized social network that truly empowers users. And there have been quite a few attempts. But none have come…

Dec 24, 2019 at 18:45 UTCUpdated Dec 24, 2019 at 19:05 UTCParaguay's Science and Technology Committee meets to discuss virtual assets. Photo via Jorge RamirezParaguay Audits Local Crypto Industry to Prepare for FATF-Style RegulationsParaguay is preparing to take its nascent cryptocurrency industry mainstream.Last week, the Latin American country’s anti-money-laundering (AML) chief, the Secretary for Preventing…

iSTOX has graduated from the Monetary Authority of Singapore's regulatory sandbox and can now conduct full trading operations within the country. (Image via Rastislav Sedlak SK / Shutterstock)The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has greenlit a tokenized securities trading firm for full operations within the city-state.Announced Monday, iSTOX has graduated from the Singapore central bank’s…

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Jul 10, 2020 at 16:47 UTCMoney Reimagined: COVID-19’s Crash Course in Exponential MathIf there’s one thing we can thank the coronavirus pandemic for, it’s a math lesson. Watching an infection lead to two, then four, then eight, then 16, then 32, then 64, then 128 and so on, people found a real-world reason to comprehend…

Crypto fraud has accounted for losses of more than £146 million ($200 million) in the U.K. this year, according to the City of London Police.The figure is 30% higher than for all of 2020, the City of London Police said Monday.The U.K.’s national reporting center for fraud and cyber crime, Action Fraud, has received 7,118…

news Analysts at Canaccord Genuity expect to see a little bit of history repeating. In a research note sent to the investment bank’s clients Thursday, analyst Michael Graham and associates Matthew Volpe and Alexander Frankiewicz predicted a return to bitcoin’s stratospheric late-2017 high over the next 24 months. They wrote: Now four months into 2019,…

news A parliamentary committee in the U.K. may move to probe Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project over fears it will wield too much power. Speaking to Financial News, Damian Collins, chair of the House of Commons’ Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said, given the company’s past poor record on privacy, he has concerns that Facebook can…

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