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Rise Of The Silver Shoppers
Chinese senior citizens are increasingly digital and represent the fastest-growing demographic. Kevin Lee/Getty Images When the actor Wang DeShun went for a walk, it went viral. It wasn’t just any wal...
Winter Olympics witnesses digital yuan amid warnings
Digital yuan is the Chinese central bank digital currency project. When several countries were exploring to issue their own national digital currency, China took the lead and introduced its CBDC. Howe...
West Remains Skeptical of Digital Yuan Ahead of Use in Olympics
Prospective users and commentators from the West remain skeptical of China’s rollout of the digital yuan during the ongoing Winter Olympics in Beijing. Data privacy remains the primary concern for mos...
Saudi Digital Academy Partners With BSV Association to Establish New Blockchain Academy
The Saudi Arabian Digital Academy has partnered with the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) Association to establish a new blockchain academy in the country. Billed as the first Blockchain Academy in the e...
China’s Digital Currency Could Subvert US Sanctions, Enhance Surveillance Capabilities – Regulation Bitcoin News
A U.S. senator has warned about China’s central bank digital currency. “Analysts have raised the eCNY’s potential to subvert U.S. sanctions, facilitate illicit money flows, enhance China’s surveillanc...
Federal Reserve and MIT Begin Developing a New Digital Dollar
The United States Federal Reserve and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are collaborating on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) initiative called Project Hamilton. Pro...
Russia’s Second-Richest Man Has Sights Set on Digital Ruble, Not Bitcoin
Russia’s second-richest man believes digital tokens and a central bank digital currency would help the country move forward—and make the current debate in the country regarding cryptocurrency re...
Indian Digital Rupee to be Held in State-Backed Wallet
The anticipated digital rupee that will be issued by the Reserve Bank Of India will not be held in private wallets, but will expose all transactions to government scrutiny. The Indian government will ...
FED Experiments New Digital Currency But Its “Not A Blockchain”; Here’s Why
Boston FED and MIT collaborated on a digital dollar experiment that resulted in a functional and fault-tolerant central bank digital currency (CBDC) architecture capable of handling 1.7 million transa...
Erik Voorhees: Central Bank Digital Currencies Are ‘Orwellian Spy Surveillance Nightmare’
Erik Voorhees is many things: Bitcoin O.G., outspoken libertarian, and founder of the crypto exchange company-turned-DAO ShapeShift. He also hates the concept of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs...
Move over Bitcoin – Russian billionaire thinks that tokens and the digital ruble will replace it
Vladimir Potanin is the second richest man in Russia. He thinks that the launch of a digital ruble, together with his own licensed tokens, will be able to supplant Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies g...
U.S. Should Examine Chinese Digital Yuan Rollout during Winter Olympics: Senator Toomey
Senator Pat Toomey, a senior member of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, requested the U.S. administration to closely examine the Chinese digital yuan’s rollout during Beijing Winter Olympics. ...
Fed Designs Digital Dollar That Handles 1.7 Million Transactions Per Second
As the race against China’s development of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) known as the digital yuan continues, the U.S. Federal Reserve accomplished a feat in testing a design for a U.S. dig...
Intraco Agrees to Buy 51% of Digital Asset Platform MHC Singapore
Singapore-listed Intraco (SGX: I06), a trading company, is going to acquire a 51 percent stake in digital asset platform MHC Singapore for a total consideration of around SG$47.2 million, according to...
BSV Association Partners With Saudi Digital Academy To Launch BSV Blockchain Academy In Saudi Arabia
The BSV blockchain’s Switzerland-based industry association and the Saudi Digital Academy (SDA) have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a BSV Blockchain Academy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. T...
From an Ambitious Single Global Digital Currency Idea to a Painful End
Throughout its relatively brief history, Facebook’s digital asset project Diem (known initially as Libra) managed to capture the attention of the cryptocurrency community and, perhaps more importantly...
Digital Dollar Bullish for Bitcoin (BTC)? Grayscale Head Says CBDC Could Create Tailwinds for Crypto
The CEO of digital asset titan Grayscale Investments says that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) can propel Bitcoin (BTC) into further adoption and growth. In a new interview on CNBC’s Squawk Bo...
Myanmar Junta Plans To Kickstart Its Own Digital Currency – Bane Or Boon?
Tether became an official currency in Myanmar’s shadow government in the middle of December of last year. The country’s ruling junta proposed a cryptocurrency ban as a way to combat this. Even though ...
India Will Regulate Crypto and Unveil the Digital Rupee
In what is arguably one of the biggest 360s the world of crypto has ever seen, India has announced that it will not be banning crypto. Rather, it will tax crypto-based income, work to regulate the spa...
Another step forward: Belarus to permit institutional investment in digital assets
Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe has maintained a progressive crypto narrative over the years. The country publicly explored a potential move into mining digital coins like Bitcoin in F...
How To Use The Forbes Digital Assets Watchlist
Dear Web 3 investors, NFT collectors and all the crypto-curious, The @ForbesCrypto team has been hard at work for the past few months developing the ultimate platform to help navigate the world of cr...
Indian couple celebrates blockchain wedding with NFT vows, digital priest
A young couple from India used nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to digitize their love for each other till eternity over the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. The recently married couple from Pune, India, Shruti N...
At Winter Olympics, China Showcases The World It’s Own Cryptocurrency, Digital Yuan
China is pulling all plugs to make its CBDC digital Yuan popular. The e-CNY is one of the three forms of payment that foreign athletes and dignitaries can use at the Enter Olympics Games. The e-CNY is...
Florida Governor DeSantis Shows Resolve in Bet on Digital Assets
HodlX Guest Post Submit Your Post Florida Governor Ron DeSantis isn’t fazed by the recent volatility in cryptocurrency, which is widely aligned with a broader dip across markets. From the uncertain...
Myanmar’s military government considers launching digital currency: Report
The armed forces of Myanmar, which have been in control of the government since forcibly detaining many elected leaders in 2021, is reportedly planning to release a digital currency to help the local ...
Myanmar Junta Wants Own Digital Currency After Government in Exile Pushes Tether
A military government is proposing creating its own digital currency a year after overthrowing the democratically elected leader. What could go wrong? Major General Zaw Min Tun, deputy information mi...
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and MIT Release Central Bank Digital Currency Research and Open-Source Code – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have jointly published the initial findings of their central bank digital currency (CBDC) research. They also pub...
CFTC chair to testify at latest Senate hearing on digital assets
advertisement The Senate Agriculture Committee is holding a hearing on digital assets a week from today, and it’s calling the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in to testif...