The sporting world was shaken to its core when Kobe Bryant passed away, but the MVP award renaming should bring to an end the tributes. The post Kobe Bryant’s All-Star MVP Tribute Is Perfect; Now It’s Time to Move on appeared first on CCN.com
Continue ReadingThe World Health Organization admits the coronavirus death toll of 910 could be the “tip of the iceberg” as it spreads rapidly beyond China. The post Dow Futures Shudder as WHO Issues Chilling Coronavirus Warning appeared first on CCN.com
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The investment arm of one of the biggest firms in the world by revenue – oil giant Saudi Aramco – has made a $5 million investment in Vakt, a commodities post-trade processing platform based on blockchain tech. Announced in a press release Tuesday, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV) now joins 11 other investors in Vakt. […]
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The World Economic Forum has created an international consortium to design a governance framework for cryptocurrencies, including stablecoins. Announced Friday, the consortium seeks to bring together financial institutions, government representatives, developers and other members of the global community to determine what sort of governance around cryptocurrencies can best further the goal of financial inclusion. Digital […]
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That’s a wrap! The World Economic Forum is over, and the key ideas coming out of Davos for our industry are: 1) a continued “blockchain, not crypto” narrative; 2) a belief in the inevitability of cashless futures (without much concern about the negative implications) and 3) the rise of CBDCs. On the CBDC front, the […]
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The U.S. dollar’s century-long reign of the world economy faces a threat over the coming decade – as China’s renminbi strives to become its successor, as some prominent central bankers call for a more sustainable global monetary regime and as cryptocurrencies pose a radically alternative model. But as the 2020s begin, the dollar looks as […]
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In the world of open-source software, a .org top-level domain – think linux.org and bitcoin.org – has always been an imprimatur of philosophical adherence and, to a degree, quality. Now, however, the .org top-level domain (TLD) is going into private hands, a move that is frustrating both traditional and blockchain open-source developers. The news that […]
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In the dog-eat-dog world of cryptocurrency exchanges, smaller startups that don’t attract the volume of megaliths like Binance, Coinbase and Kraken must band together to survive turbulent market cycles. The Swedish cryptocurrency exchange Safello, founded in 2013, is one such startup. According to CEO Frank Schuil, the company went from processing roughly 500 orders a month […]
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Although World of Warcraft launched 15-years ago, fan nostalgia for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game has seemingly not dwindled in the intervening years. Reboot World of Warcraft Classic, released yesterday afternoon, drew in over one million concurrent viewers on Twitch ousting mainstays Fortnite, Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto V, and League of Legends from the […]
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Central banks around the world are on a negative rate binge to further a compelling case for bitcoin.. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: In Denmark, some depositors are now paying the bank to look after their money. In Germany, the 30-year bond yield just went negative. A total $17 trillion of global bonds are […]
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