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US Treasury Secretary Sees Libra As National Security Threat

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin believes that Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency could pose as a national security threat. In a press conference on Monday (July 15), Mnuchin warned that Libra “could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers” and that it was a “national security issue.”.

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Why Timing Is Everything On Tax Day

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Tax Day for Americans is here, or at least it will be on Tuesday, April 17. This year is a bit of an unusual year as far as taxes are concerned, since April 15 actually falls on a Sunday. Back then, taxes weren’t due on April 15. Tax season used to be a month and a half shorter.

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Bitcoin Daily: Gemini Exchange Joins Silvergate Exchange Network; UK’s National Liberal Party Reveals Crypto Policy

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Kadena’s existing blockchain clients include $3 billion asset manager USCF Investments, healthcare technology company Rymedi, and leading Latin American technology business Alteum, as well as one of the world’s top 100 largest banks, and Fortune 500 companies. The current policy is a non-policy.

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Should Obama ‘Heed The Call’ On Bitcoin?

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Stop ISIS, bring peace to the Middle East, clean up the economy, create more jobs, fix the education system, lower taxes, etc., Promoting bitcoin. Of course, when the former commissioner, Bart Chilton, says bitcoin, he’s talking blockchain and all digital currencies. So, why digital currencies? Just like the Internet.

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Crypto Gets A Second Look From Corporate Investors Seeking Yield And Hedge

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The head of the country’s only licensed and publicly traded cryptocurrency broker says tighter regulation and exponentially higher yields are causing corporate treasury and cash management accounts to seriously consider this alternative asset class. This in the wake of the OCC’s Sept.

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China Making Privacy Allowances As It Plans Digital Currency Launch

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The country is laying the groundwork to be the first nation to launch a digital currency and will balance privacy concerns with government oversight, Reuters reported. China is planning to launch a digital currency in early 2020 that will make allowances for privacy, a senior central bank official said on Tuesday (Nov.

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Bitcoin’s Resplendent Week

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Milan, Italy was the host of a formal bitcoin conference to address scaling and a protest conference that addressed, well, everything that the formal conference didn’t. Scaling of bitcoin is a thorny issue and one that caused some dissension at the Scaling Bitcoin conference that took place on October 8 and 9.

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