Spain’s governing party wants to be the first country in Europe and the next in the world, after the Bahamas, to create a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) has proposed the creation of a study group to implement the digital euro as a public digital currency. As reported Spanish newspaper…
The emerging markets are hurry to embracing opportunities of the digital economy. After El Salvador becoming the first country has given a legal tender status to Bitcoin, a number of countries want to follow, writes Paul Opoku for Bitcoin Magazine. Latin American neighbors to El Salvador, such as Panama, Argentina, and Paraguay, have started a…
A non-fungible token (NFT) representing the original source code for the World Wide Web sold for $5.4 million at Sotheby’s in an online auction on Wednesday, as Reuters reported. Tim Berners-Lee, who wrote the code back in 1989, also known as the “Father of the Web,” plans to donate the money to charity. Sotheby’s organized…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) has at this point become such a significant part of the crypto world that it simply can no longer avoid the attention of various regulatory bodies. On the other hand, government regulators still cannot even deal with conventional cryptocurrencies. And since DeFi is much more difficult to figure out, it would be…