While what seems like the rest of the worlds financial regulators, both private and federal are expressing alarm over Facebooks Libra, Mark Carney is taking the opposite stance. Instead, the governor of the Bank of England...
While the rest of the world appears to be hyped to join the crypto bandwagon, the Reserve Bank of Australia recently expressed a much colder stance towards the trend. The Australian central bank is quite skeptical of...
It would seem that the demand for and the supply of skills related to blockchain has increased in Singapore to the point where it is dominating the market. This news comes via a new LinkedIn report covering the...
Policymakers across the globe including both Republican and Democratic US lawmakers have expressed their concerns after Facebook unveiled its upcoming cryptocurrency project Libra, which is slated to be released in...
Japans Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) has reported that it received an incessant number of queries related to cryptocurrency exchanges. According to the report it submitted to the Cabinet Office, the year 2018 saw a 170%...
A new study found that less than 5% of the code dedicated to the top 100 blockchain projects on code repository GitHub were contributed by women. The research, conducted by former Breakermag reporter Cofin Faife, looked...
The battered bitcoin will hit a new record high by year-end against the U.S. dollar on higher real transaction growth and renewed optimism among market players, an FxWirePro survey showed. After a year-long pain, the...
Consultancy firm McKinsey Company said that retail banks are slow to adopt blockchain technology, citing regulations and conservative consumers as obstacles. The research company said retail banks remain cautious when...
Ethereum is the most commonly used platform for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications (DApps), according to a report by Binance Research published on June 6. The market research, entitled DeFi Series #1 ...
One of Switzerlands most influential think tanks Avenir Suisse released a report pushing the countrys central bank, the Swiss National Bank (SNB), to start issuing a national currency. The report, entitled Blockchain...
Leading research and advisory firm Gartner has predicted that 90% of blockchain technology currently used by enterprises need to be replaced by 2021 to remain competitive, secure and avoid obsolescence. Many CIOs...
The president of Bundesbank, the central bank of Germany, is not convinced with blockchain technology, despite the fact that it is being widely adopted in other sectors. Jens Weidmann said that instead of improving the...
EOS has retained the top position in the latest update of Chinas cryptocurrency ranking released on May 23, with Bitcoin climbing up to the 12th place. Although EOS managed to hold its top position since June 2018, its...
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found that the reported number of crypto and foreign exchange scams more than tripled in the last financial year, the Financial Times reported. The data from the national...
The European Central Bank (ECB) said that crypto-assets currently do not have any risks or threat to Europes economy, according to its May report. Even at their peak in early 2018 the outstanding value of crypto-assets...