Harsh new rules making many uses of digital assets punishable with fines or prison might soon become law in Russia.  New draft bills setting out how Russia should regulate cryptocurrencies were sent to the country’s parliament, the State Duma, earlier this week. Although the official website for the planned legislation …

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Anchorage now has six executives in its C-suite, hiring a head of finance and head of sales with experience in both tech and Wall Street. Julie Veltman, who’s joining the crypto custodian as head of finance, has issued new asset-backed securitizations for Merrill Lynch’s Structured Product Capital Markets group. She …

What companies are using private blockchains today and why? Walmart has developed a blockchain system based on Hyperledger Fabric to trace the provenance of their products. The blockchain allows suppliers to upload certificates of authenticity to the ledger securely, bringing more trust to a system and enabling the company to …

Top ShelfYesterday, some of the earliest mined bitcoin moved after more than a decade of dormancy. Whale Alert – a popular, mostly-automated Twitter account that tracks major crypto transactions – broadcast the message across the cryptoverse, saying 40 coins mined in the first month of the network’s operation had transferred …

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The coronavirus pandemic is putting more pressure than ever before on the already structurally weakened European economic and political landscape. The European Union and the euro are part of the most ambitious political and economic experiment of the 21st century. The COVID-19 crisis, however, has exacerbated growing questions of political …

Euromoney’s FinTech training courses are led by world-leading experts and cover a variety of topics including private and public blockchains, cryptocurrency, alternative fundraising strategies, and the role of AI, machine learning and big data in banking. London 15-16 Jul 2020 2 London 02-03 Dec 2020 2 London 13-17 Jul 2020 …

The Kin Foundation is offering a peek under the hood. The group published a transparency report Thursday, laying out its structure and operations, in a partnership with Messari and its disclosure database.  According to the report, the Kin Foundation plans its budget a year in advance, with funds going to …

The Bitcoin Origin Story In late 2008, around the time of the financial crisis, a ground-breaking post appeared on a little-known internet forum entitled Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. It was written by a mysterious person called Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym used to disguise the author’s true identity. Satoshi …