Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.
World Economic Forum debuts framework for central bank digital currencyIt was a c-c-c-cold week in Davos, but Cointelegraph’s reporters wrapped up warm to bring you all the news from the World Economic Forum. One particularly big announcement saw the WEF unveil a central bank digital currency policymaker toolkit. The framework, created in tandem with central banks, is designed to help policymakers understand whether deploying a CBDC would be advantageous. In other developments, a global consortium has been formed to focus on developing interoperable, transparent and inclusive policy approaches to regulating digital currencies. At the start of the week, the European Union and five major central banks — the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland — announced they were planning to team up on their research for CBDCs.
WEF: Facebook’s Libra pushed world to reconsider USD as global reserve currencyWEF: Ripple CEO hints at IPO, says more crypto firms will go public in 2020Tether launches gold-backed stablecoin and begins trading on BitfinexElon Musk reveals his true opinion on Bitcoin and cryptoGreece extradites alleged launderer of $4 billion in BTC, Alexander Vinnik, to FranceIndia’s central bank says it hasn’t banned cryptoPeter Schiff bungled wallet password, solving “Bitcoin mystery”Telegram CEO: Apple’s iCloud is “now officially a surveillance tool”SEC goes head-to-head with Telegram, makes a guinea pig of TONEffect of CME futures options on BTC price depends on halvingAdam Back on Satoshi emails, privacy concerns and Bitcoin’s early daysContinue Reading on Coin Telegraph
