"Fermentation equals civilization" opined American author and poet John Ciardi. No people have embraced that device better than the French. When you imagine good wine, the mind almost always navigates towards France.

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European financial institutions are using pilots to make a case for the digital euro.

Earlier this week, former Goldman Sachs executive Raoul Pal, who is seen as an important influencer in the crypto community, gave one important example of Ethereum’s wide range of use cases. Prior to founding macro economic and investment strategy research service Global Macro Investor (GMI) in 2005, Pal co-managed the GLG Global Macro Fund in London for global asset management […]

Bitcoin prices slumped over the weekend, falling to a low of $50,000 on Sunday before rebounding, as a flash crash impacted leading cryptoassets. Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP, as well as most other major altcoins, were all hit by a sudden flash crash early Sunday morning, sending prices down sharply. Power outages in China, which consequently […]

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Bitcoin prices slumped over the weekend, falling to a low of $50,000 on Sunday before rebounding, as a flash crash impacted leading cryptoassets. Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP, as well as most other major altcoins, were all hit by a sudden flash crash early Sunday morning, sending prices down sharply. Power outages in China, which consequently […]

According to data by TradingView, on Saturday (March 13), around 14:57 UTC, on crypto exchange Bitstamp, the XRP price reached its intraday high of $0.46653. Currently (as of 22:20 UTC on March 13), XRP-USD is trading around $0.46124, which means that XRP-USD is up 5.32% in the past 24-hour period and up 110% in 2021. […]

France sees a petition to allow its Central Bank — la Banque de France, to buy Bitcoin. CEO of Ark Ecosystem, Francois-Xavier Thoorens filed the petition earlier this month. The petition has slowly been gaining momentum. Especially now as Jean-Michel Mis, president of a blockchain development firm, has also signed the petition. Moreover, he is […]

Jean-Michel Mis, a member of the French Parliament National Assembly signed a petition to the French Senate to authorize the adoption of cryptocurrency.  

A recent 47-page report—titled “Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs): A Comparative Review”—prepared for professional accounting body CPA Australia by RMIT University “provides a review of the three most-transacted digital currencies – Bitcoin, Ether and XRP.” The report looks at several definitions of CBDCs. Here is one of them: “… possibly issued on a blockchain platform, […]

Banque de France (the French central bank) has announced the successful testing of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) in collaboration with multiple financial and tech groups. The experiment was considered to be successful on December 17th of 2020 but wasn’t announced until January 19th of this year via a press release. It was completed [...]

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In recent years, Ethereum development studio ConsenSys has made it one of its foremost goals to formally bring central bank digital currency (CBDC) projects into the fold of Ethereum’s ecosystem. Now, the mission’s more in reach than ever. That’s because this week we saw ConsenSys selected as a CBDC technology partner by not one but [...]

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