Digital currency

Make no mistake; regulators have one desperate mission when it comes to Bitcoin. Keep it in check. Yet, they don’t seem to be doing a good job there. They are fumbling a lot. Drafting bills, shelving them and going back to the drawing board has become the cycle.

The National Bank of Kazakhstan, in collaboration with IBM and Almaty Tech Garden accelerator, are developing a Blockchain-based solution for securities purchases using digital currency.

There are still only a few feature films and TV-series about digital currency and distributed ledgers with worldwide recognition. But the writers of new cyber-thriller “StartUp” may change that situation.

Tether announced the launch of a new crypto euro-coin EURT, issued on the Omni Layer protocol. The new decentralized coin allows the transfer of digital assets priced in USD into Euros cheaper over the Bitcoin Blockchain.  

The University of Cambridge announced plans to add Blockchain and digital currencies education courses to the university’s master of finance programme this summer.

Digital currency exchange operator Coinbase announced a new offer that allows its US customers to use PayPal for BTC sales and credit cards for buys.

Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ has announced its plans to issue its own virtual currency using Blockchain technology in 2017.