digital currency

Digital currency is a type of currency available in digital form. It exhibits properties similar to physical currencies, but can allow for instantaneous transactions and borderless transfer-of-ownership. Examples include virtual currencies, cryptocurrencies, and central bank digital currency.

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Today in Crypto: The Luna Crypto Was Revived, Crashes Again; 12% of Argentinians Invest in Crypto
Today in Crypto: The Luna Crypto Was Revived, Crashes Again; 12% of Argentinians Invest in...
May 30, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Merge, the London crypto payments firm, has raised $9.5 million in a seed round, according to reports. Merge will use the capital to make sure...

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Today in Crypto: Russia Considers Crypto for International Payments; Crypto.com, Coinbase Top List of UK Ad Breaches
Today in Crypto: Russia Considers Crypto for International Payments; Crypto.com, Coinbase Top List of UK...
May 29, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin and ether have lost important support levels in the last day, with the sentiment for the overall crypto market weakening, CoinDesk writes. This has...

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Fed’s Vice Chair Tells Banks: Digital Dollar Won’t Cut You Out
Fed’s Vice Chair Tells Banks: Digital Dollar Won’t Cut You Out
May 27, 2022  |  CBDC

A federally issued digital dollar will not cut banks out of the banking system. If there was one key point that the Federal Reserve’s new...

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El Salvador Weekly: Bitcoin’s Still a Major Sticking Point in Talks with IMF
El Salvador Weekly: Bitcoin’s Still a Major Sticking Point in Talks with IMF
May 27, 2022  |  Bitcoin

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) dropped yet another strong hint that it won’t bail El Salvador out of coming debt payments that could lead to...

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Fed’s Vice Chair Brainard Makes a Case for a US CBDC In Congress
Fed’s Vice Chair Brainard Makes a Case for a US CBDC In Congress
May 26, 2022  |  CBDC

Lael Brainard, Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, will testify before the Committee on Financial Services in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, May...

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Mercado Bitcoin, Stellar Team on CBDC Project
Mercado Bitcoin, Stellar Team on CBDC Project
May 24, 2022  |  CBDC

Latin American exchange Mercado Bitcoin is teaming with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) on one of the nine projects in the LIFT Challenge Real Digital,...

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Heyday or Doomsday? Regulators, Banks at Odds Over CBDCs
Heyday or Doomsday? Regulators, Banks at Odds Over CBDCs
May 24, 2022  |  CBDC

The Federal Reserve asked the public for its thoughts on the need for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and the banking industry has answered...

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CBDC Weekly: Digital Euro Could Launch in Four Years; Chile Looks Ahead; SWIFT Wants CBDC Business
CBDC Weekly: Digital Euro Could Launch in Four Years; Chile Looks Ahead; SWIFT Wants CBDC...
May 23, 2022  |  CBDC

A digital euro could be as little as four years off, according to a top European Union official. And when an EU central bank digital...

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Today in Crypto: Goldman Says Crypto Crash Won’t Seriously Damage US Economy
Today in Crypto: Goldman Says Crypto Crash Won’t Seriously Damage US Economy
May 22, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

A Goldman Sachs report has said the fall in crypto prices because of recent turmoil likely won’t impact the U.S. economy that much. It cites...

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