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| Poor Venezuelans launch local currency amid cash crunch CARACAS, Venezuela - Hard cash is tough to find in Venezuela as the country struggles with financial hardship. So residents in the capital this week unveiled their own currency. The panal, which means honeycomb in Spanish, can be spent in just a few stores. But residents of one neighborhood ...
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| The Creator of Signal Has a Plan to Fix Cryptocurrency The currency Marlinspike has been working on as technical advisor for the last four months, alongside technologist Joshua Goldbard, is MobileCoin. The two based it on the open-source Stellar Consensus Protocols platform, an alternative payment network that underlies systems like an inter-bank ...
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| Bitcoin Is the Hottest Thing Around. So Why Is It So Hard to Use? That's not to say that Bitcoin has become totally useless as a currency. Stephen Pair, the CEO of leading crypto-payments processor Bitpay, notes that the value of transactions on the platform has quadrupled in the past year. BitPay is on track to process $2 billion worth of transactions this year, mostly in ...
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| Don't Discount The Value Of Currency Hedging (DXJ) From WisdomTree: We feel strongly about helping our clients understand the impact that currencies have on international equity returns. Over the long run, we believe that currency exposure in developed markets represents an uncompensated risk: it provides almost no expected return but often ...
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| US Fed Chair Speaks Out On Bitcoin and National Crypto During the meeting, Yellen addressed three areas relating to cryptocurrency -- speculation, regulation and government-issued digital currencies. On the nature of Bitcoin, she commented that though the cryptocurrency has seen a remarkable growth in recent months, it is still a "highly speculative asset" ...
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| Cryptocurrencies: City watchdog to investigate new fundraising trend It started the year below $1,000 and the explosion in the price has been further fuelled by a new futures product launched this week, potentially legitimatising the currency. The FCA is also looking at other complex products being inked to cryptocurrencies, citing the growth in contracts for difference (CFD) ...
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Five myths about bitcoin This month, bitcoin, the digital currency launched by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, hit a record price of $17,428.42 per coin. It got its own futures market at a traditional brokerage firm, and it even earned a joke in a recent "Saturday Night Live" sketch. Perhaps because of its complicated technical design, ...
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| More S'pore businesses accept virtual currencies but usage still low A company got one bitcoin as part payment for a project last year when the virtual currency was worth about $350. Yesterday, it was worth ... Whilemore businesses here are accepting virtual currencies, usage is still low. ... But no oneused the virtual currency when The New Paper was there this week.
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| Moves in South Korea to make cryptocurrency trading more transparent SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean blockchain association announced on Friday measures to boost transparency in trading of cryptocurrencies, agreed by 14 exchanges in the country including the world's busiest virtual currency exchange, Bitthumb. The Korea Blockchain Industry Association said in a ...
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| Should you invest in Bitcoin? So most people obtain coins by buying them, usually on a Bitcoin exchange, where traditional currency, like dollars, can be traded for cryptocurrency. The largest bitcoin broker is called Coinbase, which says it now has 13 million accounts — more than stock brokerage Charles Schwab. Coinbase works ...
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