Three-quarters of the survey participants said they view crypto payments as a viable alternative to traditional money transfer services, according to an announcement.
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Ukraine is the latest country to start working in earnest towards a central bank digital currency (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)Ukraine selects Stellar to develop a digital currency
The Ukranian government partners with the Stellar Development Foundation to build the infrastructure for a central bank-issued digital assets
“The Ministry of Digital Transformation is working on creating the legal environment for the development of virtual assets in Ukraine," said Deputy Minister for IT Development Oleksandr Bornyakov. "We believe our cooperation with the Stellar Development Foundation will contribute to development of the virtual asset industry and its integration into the global financial ecosystem.”
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Ripple CTO: Community could force us to burn $30B
Ripple’s David Schwartz admitted on a Twitter thread that XRP validators could vote to force the international payments company to destroy 50B XRP—just like the Stellar Foundation did with XLM
Schwartz’s comment came in response to a question on a Twitter thread that asked, “If Nodes, validators and the community at large got together and we agree that it's better for the community to burn the 50 billion XRP ripple has in escrows would that be possible?” Schwartz replied, "Yes. There would be nothing Ripple could do to stop that from happening.”
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Student crypto crime-fighting league forms
Cryptocurrency intelligence firm CipherTrace will provide education and tracking tools to students for hands-on training solving real thefts and scams
CipherTrace is working with the student-founded Blockchain Acceleration Foundation in California and Mexico and several universities to create the CipherTrace Defenders League.
