Thailand bans “meme tokens” and NFTs
Thailand has recently imposed restrictions on cryptocurrency trading. The South-east Asian nation’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has implemented a ban on various types of…
Tag: Stablecoins
Market review calendar week 15 – 2021
A summarizing review of what has been happening at the crypto markets of the past week. A look at trending sectors, liquidity, volatility, spreads and…
Why CBDCs aren’t a threat to Bitcoin
Central banks are concerned that they may lose the race for digital currencies to a private digital currency like Bitcoin (BTC). But Bitcoin and CBDCs…
Mastercard Accepts Individual Crypto Currencies as a Means of Payment
Credit card company Mastercard announced this week that they will accept “select crypto currencies” as payment. Their focus will primarily be on centralized stable-coins and…
Tether regulation proposal “apocalyptic” for crypto
Unregulated stablecoins such as Tether face increasing regulatory pressure from the US government. A new bill called the Stable Act is stirring anxiety in crypto…
ECB thinks that private stablecoins pose a greater risk than Bitcoin
Christine Lagarde has identified privately-issued stablecoins as representing a greater risk to financial stability and the monetary sovereignty of the EU than cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.…
Money, Money, Money
An insatiable thirst for dollars, the race for the status of the global reserve currency and interest rates on the block chain. Many changes are…
Stablecoins – Upgrade for the Eurodollar system
A growing acceptance of Stablecoins could be the next step in a global financialisation, after private actors started to create dollar derivatives in the 1960s.…