China is leading the world in the development, implementation, and testing of its CBDC with the DCEP project, adding yet another city to the list of test runs. According to reports, Suzhou will give away 20 million Yuan worth $3 million in the new central bank digital currency. Similar to the pilot in Shenzhen, citizens...Read More
Principal actors in the PlusToken Ponzi scheme have bagged 11-year prison sentences in China. The scheme managed to defraud investors of billions of dollars in various cryptocurrencies. End of the Road for PlusToken Scammers According to the South China Morning Post on Dec. 1, principal members of the PlusToken scam project were sentenced to 11...Read More
Chinese Bitcoin mining firm Canaan has recorded a loss in yet another quarter but is showing positive signs of a recovery as share price and market capitalization spikes. Following a disappointing initial public offering (IPO) last year and declining inventory sales, the company has seen the balance of power shift considerably to major competitors MicroBT...Read More
With China making significant strides in crypto and blockchain development, the US Intelligence apparatus is reportedly worried about the US falling far behind its current economic rival. From crypto mining to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), there is a popular narrative that Beijing controls vast swaths of the emerging digital economic landscape. A dismissal of...Read More
In a development that has taken many in the community by surprise, a blockchain bond worth $3 billion has been withdrawn from a Malaysian crypto-exchange, according to a recent report. The bond in question was arranged by a China Construction Bank Corp (CCB) unit using blockchain technology. In fact, it was reportedly withdrawn at the...Read More
The ongoing assault on money laundering in the Chinese telecoms and crypto industry has seen Bitcoin miners facing difficulties in paying electricity bills as banks freeze cards associated with cryptocurrency transactions. Three-quarter of Chinese Bitcoin Miners Can’t Pay for Electricity According to a local news outlet, in a tweet thread on November 16, 2020, Chinese...Read More
Bitcoin is up by a total of around 5% this week. However, the most interesting part is that it finally broke above the coveted $16,000 mark for the first time since January 2018. This time, however, things are looking a lot more stable. BTC had a few attempts at $16,000 and managed to convincingly break...Read More
One of China’s biggest banks is selling $3 billion worth of bonds to investors. The offering allows clients to make purchases with cash and Bitcoin. Raising $3 billion From A Bonds Sale China Construction Bank Corp. aims to raise up to $3 billion from a planned sale of bonds. As per a recent news report, the...Read More
Bitcoin, after a massive rise to last year’s high, trimmed gains in a sudden selloff yesterday. YouTube-based BTC commentator Carl Martin a.k.a The Moon, opined that the cryptocurrency is experiencing selloff from miners. But is that actually true? Is bitcoin dipping because of miner capitulation? Nope, there’s no tangible proof to corroborate the same. Carl...Read More
The Bitcoin network just went through the second-largest negative difficulty adjustment and its most significant one since the start of the ASIC era. The 16.05% decline exceeded previous expectations indicating a readjustment of somewhere between 7% and 10%. Record-Setting BTC Mining Difficulty Adjustment The mining difficulty on the Bitcoin network goes through an automatic adjustment...Read More
Multinational technological giant Huawei announced today that its newly-launched smartphone has a built-in wallet that will allow users to store, send, and receive China’s national digital currency. Announcing the features of the Mate40 series in a Weibo post, the company said that the device is the first smartphone that supports the digital yuan via a...Read More
Bitcoin has seen its hash rate decline over 43.47 % within a span of 3 days, due to Chinese mining farms closing down for the dry season. The reason being, they cannot generate enough hydropower without the rain along with a spike in electricity costs. Bitcoin hashrate has dropped by ~45% over past 3 days,...Read More
Yesterday, the Bitcoin network witnessed approximately 22 exahashes per second (EH/s) exit the ecosystem, as noted by Hashr8’s Thomas Heller on Twitter. The self-professed “mining maximalist” also shared his estimation that we’ll see the BTC mining difficulty decline somewhere between 7.4% to 8.8% by the end of the week — a drop that, if true,...Read More
Founder and former executive chairman of the multinational technology conglomerate Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, believes that world regulators need to improve the legislation around digital currencies as they could create value. Ma: Digital Currencies Could Create Value In a recent speech reported by Bloomberg, the Chinese billionaire criticized the current global financial regulatory framework for...Read More
US Fed Chair Powell believes that the United States should focus on getting right the development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), rather than attempt to be first. While speaking on a panel hosted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Powell reassured that the US is “committed to carefully and thoughtfully evaluating the potential...Read More
After a week of utilizing the $1.5 million worth of digital yuan sent to 50,000 Shenzhen citizens, those who used the funds to make regular everyday purchases weren’t impressed. However, analysts claimed that the trials are a significant step towards a real-life practical usage for China’s digital currency. Digital Yuan Doesn’t Impress Shoppers Numerous world...Read More
Filecoin’s history has been turbulent since its creation in the early days of the crypto-verse. But investors can probably agree that nothing resembles what happened last week. Filecoin Traders Had a Hard Week… Speculators are having a rough time. The token initially had a brief and sudden rise of more than 100% immediately after its...Read More
The Central Bank of Spain published its Strategic Plan for 2020-2024, describing the objectives and strategies it will follow to boost its economy and adapt the country’s finances to the requirements of the modern era, and a CBDC is one of its priorities. The digital world is stealing the attention of the Spaniards. In its...Read More
Xunlei, a $220M-worth Nasdaq-listed cloud computing and blockchain company based in China, is at the center of a controversy after the company announced that its former CEO, Chen Lei, was under police investigation for dereliction of duty and embezzlement. Lai is also accused of misappropriating tens of millions of yuan over the past year in...Read More
In collaboration with the Peoples Bank of China (PBOC), Shenzhen plans to distribute $1.5 million worth of its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) – the digital yuan. Adopting a promotion strategy similar to that of a surprise airdrop, the giveaway will be distributed to 50,000 recipients through a lottery system. According to reports, each distribution...Read More
Since President Xi Jinping’s announcement last year to prioritize blockchain development in China, the country has been the first to launch its CBDC, created the BSN network, and applied for a record 4,435 blockchain patents. While these seem like big strides forward towards adoption, there is still a ban in place on trading cryptocurrency. The...Read More
Although China still categorizes Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as illegal, several state-owned media outlets purportedly ran reports describing them as the best-performing assets since the start of the year. Bitcoin And Crypto Run On Chinese Media A popular state-owned media under the name Xinhua News Agency set the tone yesterday by citing a Bloomberg report...Read More
The importance of this current week has been fairly downplayed. Years down the line, the global payments system might look back at this particular period and suggest that this is where it all started. Let’s jog our memories on what actually happened. In two ‘un-correlated’ announcements, the People’s Bank of China-controlled finance magazine stated the importance...Read More
The popular blockchain company Tezos has become the last integrated network into China’s ambitious Blockchain-based Services Network (BSN). Developers can employ the Tezos protocol through BSN’s global public city nodes and portals for a “simplified development and deployment experience.” All three global public city nodes, namely Hong Kong, California, and Paris, have integrated with the...Read More
China needs the advantage of the first issuer of digital currency and the first nation to come up with its digital asset, PBOC’s China Finance magazine article states. A New “Battlefield Of Competition” On The Rise According to an article published in China Finance, a magazine run by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), cited...Read More
The East-Asian market is the largest in the cryptocurrency landscape, accounting for a whopping 31% of the total volume over the past year. It is also home to the highest mining activity with China controlling close to 65% of the total Bitcoin hash rate. While the trading volume is driven by a robust professional group...Read More
Three to five countries will completely replace their currency with a central bank digital currency by 2030, argued a recent report by a German-based fintech think tank. The document also warned that if the European Central Bank doesn’t accelerate its CBDC endeavors, the digital Yuan will overtake it but won’t disrupt the Dollar’s dominance. Countries...Read More
A report compiled by the blockchain forensics company Chainalysis indicated that cryptocurrency adoption is growing globally. By exploring four key metrics and separating the data country by country, the firm’s Global Crypto Adoption Index 2020 showed that Ukraine, Russia, and Venezuela lead the way. The metrics take into consideration the purchasing power parity (PPP) per...Read More
According to a recent publication, Chinese investors are using a lot of the ETH they buy on centralized exchanges to pursue DeFi opportunities. This essentially reduces liquidity, and exchanges are forced to limit or even suspend withdrawals. DeFi Growth In China Causes Issues For Exchanges The DeFi craze exploded earlier this year. Projects began surfacing...Read More
Bank of Japan (BoJ), one of Japan’s central banks, has put the development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) on top priority since July, according to a report in Japan Today. As per the report, members of BoJ hoped to see its digital currencies operate seamlessly during times of natural disasters and especially during...Read More
