Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Adoption news A central bank group will assess potential cases for central bank digital currencies (CBDC). The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central …[continue reading]

Cyber Attacks, False Allegations & TGBMS Class Actions Update Before I update you on the current state of play in the TGBMS Class Actions, I need to let you know what transpired at the end of last year, when some very serious issues arose, which unfortunately hampered the progress we intended to make in that …[continue reading]

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”This infamous quote is ascribed to William Casey, the CIA Director between 1981-1987, though some dispute he ever said it, which is all the more illustrative of his words.It would seem that this vaunted disinformation program has been a resounding success. …[continue reading]

Blockchain is listed as the number one “hard skill” for 2020 in a new report compiled by jobs site LinkedIn. “Last year, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and analytical reasoning led LinkedIn’s global list of the most in-demand hard skills,” LinkedIn wrote in the report. “They’re all on the list again this year, but a skill we …[continue reading]

A new survey shows that few financial advisors have allocated crypto for their clients’ portfolios – but more say they intend to do so in 2020.  According to a new survey shared with The Block by cryptocurrency asset manager Bitwise, among the 400-plus financial advisors they spoke with in December 2019, only 6% of them …[continue reading]

When Fragile becomes Friable: Endemic Control Fraud as a Cause of EconomicStagnation and CollapseWilliam K. BlackExecutive Director, Institute for Fraud PreventionIDEAS Workshop: Delhi, IndiaFinancial Crime and Fragility under Financial GlobalizationDecember 19-20, 2005AbstractIndividual “control frauds” cause greater losses than all other forms of property crimecombined. They are financial super-predators. Control frauds are crimes led by the …[continue reading]

OneGold, an online bullion marketplace that’s been accepting cryptocurrency payments since December 2018, has so far sold $50 million worth of the precious metal for cryptocurrency, which according to BitPay represents 10% of the firm’s yearly revenue. The online gold marketplace has been accepting bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether, and stablecoin payments. OneGold essentially lets users fund their …[continue reading]

A man has won a Supreme Court appeal which centred on a claim he was entitled to more detail about how a €221,000 mortgage debt was calculated before a bank obtained judgment for the money against him. The court ruled Joseph O’Malley was entitled to such detail when it allowed he appeal against a High …[continue reading]

The European Central Bank is considering the launch of its own CBDC, according to the bank’s President – Christine Lagarde. She indicates in a recent interview that they need to adjust to this changing world and that the bank will not interfere with any private companies in coming up with a similar digital form of …[continue reading]

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