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PortuguêsFrances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” explains how modern money creation and…
Continue ReadingAnother week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. Over the past week, Bitcoin has flatlined, trading between $6,500 and $6,800 for a number of days. Almost all altcoins followed suit, also posting…
Continue ReadingThe “digital dollar” took just eight days to get into Congress. Advocates for digitizing coronavirus relief payments began working with Congressional staffers earlier this month to outline how the Federal…
Continue ReadingThe Digital Dollar Foundation – an effort by former CFTC officials Christopher Giancarlo and Daniel Gorfine in partnership with Accenture – has tapped a number of former government officials and…
Continue ReadingLegislation introduced in the U.S. Congress this week signals the Overton Window – a metric of what’s politically feasible – is opening in favor of national digital currencies. While it’s…
Continue ReadingOn Wednesday, U.S. Congressional leaders had seemingly come up with a stimulus deal at around 1 a.m. EST. The package will cost upwards of $2 trillion and politicians are promising…
Continue ReadingDuring the last few days, members of the U.S. Congress have been trying to pen a stimulus plan to help the American economy. Since then, a few bills have been…
Continue ReadingMarcelo M. Prates is a lawyer at the Central Bank of Brazil and holds a doctorate from Duke University School of Law. The views expressed here are his own and…
Continue ReadingA draft bill posted Tuesday to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs defines a “digital dollar” and details how it might be maintained. The bill echoes…
Continue ReadingMentions of a “digital dollar” in a coronavirus-related relief bill before the U.S. House of Representatives have been scrubbed. The lawmakers introduced the bill last week, envisioning a digital payment…
Continue Reading11 years after Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin, some facets of the U.S. government have finally indicated that they are seriously considering the creation of a digital dollar, a move that…
Continue ReadingProposed legislation meant to shore up the U.S. economy during the coronavirus pandemic includes a recommendation to create a digital dollar. This virtual greenback would help individuals and families survive…
Continue ReadingTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin wasn’t the only one to make waves at the U.S. Senate this week when it came to the future of currency. Tom Cotton, a Republican senator…
Continue ReadingAt the recent Symposium for Future Payments held in Stanford, California on February 5, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard stressed the importance of remaining “on the frontier of research and…
Continue ReadingFormer CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo aka “Crypto Dad” sees the current set of financial systems – the older systems associated with the pre-digital age – as hopelessly obsolete. He aims…
Continue ReadingUS Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has called for more clarity with regards to crypto currency regulation as the country slips further behind in the rapidly expanding industry. Andrew Yang…
Continue ReadingIn this video from WEF 2020, former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, also known as “Crypto Dad,” discusses his push to digitize the U.S. dollar and the…
Continue ReadingAs Libra continues to spur discussions among regulators around the world, and China’s digital yuan comes ever closer to fruition, the U.S. Federal Reserve seems disinclined to look seriously at…
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