Bitcoin & crypto news headlines
The November 2020 overview of recent cryptocurrency news headlines, pulled from Startup News Asia’s daily feeds.
Items listed here are crypto and bitcoin related news headlines gathered in November of 2020 from online media sources. Each crypto news headline listed is linked to the full article behind that headline, so as to give readers an at-a-glance overview of November 2020’s cryptocurrency news headlines, whilst also giving readers direct one-click access to the full news articles behind the crypto news headlines that are of most interest.
- What Makes the Bitcoin Blockchain Secure? Bitcoin is cryptographic, irreversible, distributed, and public.
- Download: A Global Look at Central Bank Digital Currencies From Iteration to Implementation (pdf)
- China: Double 12 shopping festival in Suzhou to hold lottery trial digital yuan, following on from recent trial in Shenzhen
- CBDCs and privacy: “Making privacy or identity an ad hoc process is suboptimal from both a privacy or identity perspective, and most importantly from a security perspective.”
- Download: A Global Look at Central Bank Digital Currencies From Iteration to Implementation (pdf)
- Reserve Bank of Australia boosts Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency Research Project with collaboration with 3 major banks
- China: Police seize over $4.2BN worth of crypto assets in clampdown on Plustoken Ponzi scheme
- Japan: 30+ major firms including 3 banks, telcos and brokerages to begin experimenting towards issuing a digital yen via common settlement platform
- South Korea: Danal payments firm to accept digital currencies via ICON blockchain ecosystem, opening 60K merchants using ICX tokens to users, including 7-Eleven
- Trade & Development Bank of Mongolia partners Delio and Hexland blockchain firms to offer cryptocurrency remittance, custody, deposits, asset management and loans services
- Fidelity Digital Asset enters the Asian cryptocurrency market via partnership with Singapore’s Stack Funds, gaining local and regional investor knowledge
- Report: DeFi hacks have cost crypto platforms and users $100M in 2020, with decentralized finance protocols and crypto exchanges seen as vulnerable to fraud and money laundering
- ICYMI: Facebook Libra cryptocurrency may be launching in January as a single coin backed with US dollar, with other currencies to come later
- Blockchain: A cheat sheet – from TechRepublic, covering everything you need to know about the technology that powers Bitcoin, Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies
- China: UnionPay payments giant to support cryptocurrency via South Korea-developed crypto with addition of ‘virtual card’, opening up spending via 30M merchants
- ICYMI: 17 tech startups applying blockchain to aspects of the music industry
- China Construction Bank planned listing of $3BN Bitcoin and dollar-tradable bond via Malaysian cryptocurrency branch has been shelved
- ICYMI: Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu adopts Unblocked Cash, mobile-based blockchain tech, with tap-and-pay cards, for assistance to families recovering from disasters
- ICYMI: UK Treasury Department is drafting proposals to regulate private stablecoins; also researching central bank digital currencies as an alternative to cash
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