During the live broadcast of Dialogue, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev spoke about the regulation of the digital economy, blockchain and the protection of personal data of Internet users. According to the head of government, regulation of the digital industry should be carried out through a set of regulatory acts, and not through a single law, and market participants themselves should determine the standards. “The industry is developing faster than regulatory regulation,” Medvedev said. The Prime Minister also emphasized that “trying to hammer everything into the law is a very little attractive idea”: “We like to manipulate terms … Now,…
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Mayor said Facebook’s digital Libra threatens the monetary sovereignty of states. Its development in Europe is impossible, the official stressed. “I want to express myself very clearly: we cannot allow the development of Libra in Europe under the current conditions,” Agence France quotes Le Mayor 24. news is updated Subscribe to ForkLog news in […]
Representatives of the world's largest crypto platform Binance reported that next week users will begin registration on the Binance.US platform. A publication from Binance notes that a new trading platform targeted at US users will begin accepting deposits on September 18th. The platform will initially support the following cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, as well as Litecoin and the Tether stablecoin. Catherine Coley, CEO of Binance.US, notes that after registration, users will be able to create an account and choose the desired level of identity verification, depending on which certain restrictions on withdrawal of funds will be applied to…
New data show that in the event of a recession, 40% of millennials would prefer to invest in crypto assets . The multi-active investment platform and social network eToro cited the results of a multigenerational investment survey conducted July 18–31 among 1,000 online investors in the United States. Respondents aged 20 to 65 were generation Z – millennials, and generation X. According to the report, more than two-thirds of US investors fear recession and would consider converting part of their stock portfolio into safer investments or hedging cryptocurrencies, commodities, or real estate. Among the survey participants, 40% of respondents said…
Mastercard technology company and R3-oriented corporate clients blockchain consortium R3 have announced a strategic partnership in which they develop and test a cross-border payment solution based on distributed registry technology. According to a published press release, the future solution will initially focus on combining the global payment infrastructure and banks in the Mastercard clearing and settlement network. Combining the expertise of R3 in the field of technology […]
Mastercard payment system and the New York financial and technological company R3 entered into partnerships in order to develop a new blockchain solution for cross-border payments – it is assumed that initially banking institutions and organizations that already cooperate with Mastercard will become participants in the new system. Earlier this year, Mastercard has already taken some steps to expand its ability to provide cross-border transfer services, in particular the acquisition of Transfast. Today’s announcement will allow Mastercard to open its customers access to the Corda ecosystem from R3, to which over 300 companies are connected, the activity of which is…
The KuMEX futures platform launched the trading of perpetual contracts for bitcoin XBTUSDM. This was stated in a press release. Contracts are denominated in bitcoins, and quotes are displayed in US dollars. The platform provides leverage up to x20 for transactions with XBTUSDM. To lower the entry threshold for investors, the platform set the price of XBTUSDM to $ 1. KuMEX is a platform for trading cryptocurrency derivatives from […]
In a recent interview, Professor of Economics and author of the book “Bitcoin Standard: A Decentralized Alternative to the Central Bank”, Sayfidin Ammus, spoke about changes in the ecosystem, and also compared BTC with traditional financial institutions and gold. In his opinion, people who ignore bitcoin and cryptocurrencies lose a lot. Cryptocurrencies were formed in the free market and have now become a “single Internet protocol” that allows transactions to be carried out worldwide without the intervention of a third party. Ammus considers Bitcoin (BTC) a powerful tool for financial transactions, which does not replace Visa, MasterCard or Western Union,…
American hip-hop artist Akon has supported Bitcoin , trying to refute the notion that cryptocurrency has no fundamental value. In a radio broadcast published on September 10, the contractor stated that the same arguments apply to fiat currencies as are used against bitcoin: “The dollar is not backed by anything. The US does not have natural resources that would provide the dollar. What they have to secure the dollar is the army. ” Akon is a supporter of decentralization and other advantages of blockchain technology , which, in turn, serve as an element of the value proposition of cryptocurrencies. Akon…
Representatives of the OKEx crypto-asset trading platform reported that HBAR, the native token of the Hedera Hashgraph decentralized blockchain project, will soon be listed on the crypto-exchange. OKEx noted that on the platform, the HBAR token will be presented in conjunction with BTC, USDT, USDK. OKEx users will have access to the new asset on September 17th. The exchange will begin to open deposits on September 16th, the opportunity to withdraw funds will appear on September 24th. The head of Hedera Hashgraph noted that HBAR plays a key role in the functioning, development and security of the Hedera network, and…