Not Just A Different Form Of Money

UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 2: Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., participates in the House Financial Services … [+] Committee meeting to organize for the 115th Congress on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. (Pho...

Japan’s central bank to issue experimental digital yen in early 2023

The Japanese central bank will begin experiments with a proof-of-concept digital yen early next year, Nikkei reported.  The Bank of Japan will work with several unnamed financial institutions to...

Iran Launches Central Bank Digital Currency Scheme With Local Banks And Shops

Bank Melli staff at the bank’s stand at the 26th International Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical … [+] Exhibition in Tehran on May 13, 2022. (Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty...

European Central Bank preparing for broad digital currency adoption ‘scenario’

The European Central Bank (ECB) is analyzing options for integrating decentralized ledger technology (DLT) into existing payment settlement systems, Fabio Panetta, an executive ECB board member, said ...

Does The Federal Reserve Regulate Cryptocurrency?

| Getty Images Key takeaways The Federal Reserve regulates banks, so it only monitors cryptocurrencies held by banks in the United States. The top U.S. banking regulator is assessing the launch of a C...

Central Bank Digital Currencies And Freedom Are Incompatible

Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at Cornell University, arrives for dinner during the Jackson … [+] Hole economic symposium, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, in Moran...

Where Central Banks Have Issued Digital Currencies [Infographic]

Cryptocurrencies have seen better days. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shattered the belief in BitcoinBTC as a safe-haven asset, and the digital currency hit a price of around $18,000 per Bitcoin...

Central Bank Digital Currencies Are About Control – They Should Be Stopped

Photo taken on July 15, 2021 shows the U.S. Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., the United States. … [+] U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday that he was “legitimatel...

Crypto’s Coming Shock

Digital cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethernum, Dash, Monero and Litecoin on display in Paris, France in 2018. (Photo Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images) Getty Images The crypto world heaved a ...