Is It Time To Remove UK Banks From the Bitcoin Ecosystem?
A solution has to be created which makes moving fiat in and out of bitcoin exchanges more frictionless. Over the past few years, a lot of bitcoin exchanges had to deal with issues related to UK banks. Even though bitcoin is legal in an unregulated manner in the UK, banks are not too keen on cryptocurrency. Some experts argue it is due time to take British banks out of the bitcoin exchange industry altogether. Doing so would have catastrophic events, though, as it limits both deposit and withdrawal options for a lot of users. Then again, with banks continuing to deny service to bitcoin....
Related News
Edmund C. Moy, the 38th Director of the United States Mint, isn't afraid to show the world he's a fan of cryptocurrencies. Moy took to his Twitter account to respond to a posted article on CNBC.com with regard to the criminal conviction of Credit Suisse, one of the largest banks in the world. Moy's tweet read: "$2.6B fine 'won't do much damage': Credit Suisse CEO. It's time banks got competition. Time for cryptocurrencies." In a day and age where banks can seemingly get away with anything (and if they don't it's a minor slap on the wrist), Moy realizes that cryptocurrencies remove the need....
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will soon test how it could issue digital currency using a blockchain-based interbank payment system. According to Bloomberg, the planned proof-of-concept will be supported by blockchain consortium R3CEV, as well as eight banks and an unnamed local stock exchange. The Development Bank of Singapore, HSBC, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Credit Suisse and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi are all said to be participating. In a speech on Wednesday, MAS managing director Ravi Menon said the test could come to include other central banks. Further, he credited the....
On October 23, the Microsoft-owned Github leveraged an ostensible DMCA takedown in order to remove 18 projects from the code-hosting portal. According to sources, the takedown stemmed from a request filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Github’s recent move has made the crypto community quite leery of the platform and some proponents are scared that cryptocurrency codebases like Bitcoin’s can be taken down by government forces. This week the RIAA got the Microsoft-owned Github to remove a number of projects from the code-hosting portal. The code....
American multinational financial services corporation, Visa, is inviting lenders to test its interbank transfer system that sends money over a blockchain. Visa’s New Blockchain Project. Hendrik Kleinsmiede, co-founder of Visa’s innovation hub, Visa Europe Collab, said in the announcement that the project is designed to “reduce the friction of domestic....
Unlike the central banks’ quantitative easing policy, the reduction of new funds being pumped into the Bitcoin ecosystem is stabilizing the price. It is not the first time some experts are pointing towards Bitcoin as an asset to keep an eye on whenever financial trouble seems to be looming on the horizon. Cryptocurrency is a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity, due its scarcity and global availability. Even though some people may argue it is too late to invest in Bitcoin or other currencies, that is far from the case. Moreover, the policies employed by banks to solve the economic....