• The French Army couldn't beat China in the Tonkin War of 1884-5. Can it beat China's central bank to a to a digital currency in 2020? (via Banque de France)
    Cryptocurrencies,  People,  Politics

    France: 2020 national digital currency bridge to e-euro

    François Villeroy de Galhau appoints Nathalie Aufauvre to build a French national digital currency leading to an e-euro

    Banque de France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau is planning to test a central bank-issued digital currency by 2020 to do it. Along the way, he’s making a play for French leadership of the European economy.

  • Oz Yosef may need a wizard's help (via YouTube).
    Tether,  Uncategorized

    Crypto Capital crony Oz Yosef indicted

    Another shadow banker has been charged in connection with the theft of $880 million from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex.

    Federal prosecutors have indicted Oz Yosef, a principal of Crypto Capital Corp., on three counts of bank fraud and conspiracy in cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex's $880 million loss.

  • Facebook Thumbs down (via Wikimedia Commons).
    Cryptocurrencies

    Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project is crumbling

    Visa, Mastercard, eBay, Stripe, and Mercado Pago withdrew on October 11, leaving the stablecoin on its knees

    Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency plan began to collapse over the course of a few hours on the evening of Friday, October 11. Like dominoes toppling, many of its major partners began pulling out...

  • New York County Courthouse, scene of crypto's Bonfire of the Sanities (via Pixabay).
    Tether

    Tether and Bitfinex win stay of NY Attorney General’s fraud suit

    An appellate court will revisit the question of whether Attorney General Letitia James has standing to sue the stablecoin issuers and cryptocurrency exchange

    On September 24, a New York appeals court stayed a lower court’s order that would have forced iFinex and its subsidiaries to turn over documents to help the attorney general’s fraud and securities law suit.