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Saudi Digital Academy Partners With BSV Association to Establish New Blockchain Academy

The Saudi Arabian Digital Academy has partnered with the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) Association to establish a new blockchain academy in the country.  Billed as the first Blockchain Academy in the entirety of the Middle East, the announcement disclosed more details with the plans from the academy by providing blockchain learning and development resources for a variety of audiences – including developers, students, start-up entrepreneurs, business executives, and government agencies representatives.   The Saudi Digital Academy is a government-sponsored initiative that has a strong focus on human capital development related to…

China’s Digital Currency Could Subvert US Sanctions, Enhance Surveillance Capabilities – Regulation Bitcoin News

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A U.S. senator has warned about China’s central bank digital currency. “Analysts have raised the eCNY’s potential to subvert U.S. sanctions, facilitate illicit money flows, enhance China’s surveillance capabilities, and provide Beijing with ‘first mover’ advantages,” the senator informed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. U.S. Senator Warns About the Threat From China’s Central Bank Digital Currency U.S. Senator Pat Toomey sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Tony Blinken last week raising concerns about China’s central bank digital currency, the digital yuan. “I write to request…

Myanmar’s Military Government Plans Digital Currency Launch: Report

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Leading Digital Exchanges Launch Crypto Market Integrity Coalition

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Accounting Standards Are Key to Getting Digital Assets on Corporate Balance Sheets

Through the comment process, FASB received a significant response of 522 comment letters. Of these 522 responses, 445 (85% of the respondents) commented solely and exclusively on accounting standards for digital assets, providing feedback on the pervasive impact of digital assets and the need to prioritize standards setting. More than 50% of the respondents indicated that standard setting for digital assets should be considered as the highest priority for FASB. Source

Indian couple celebrates blockchain wedding with NFT vows, digital priest

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A young couple from India used nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to digitize their love for each other till eternity over the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain.  The recently married couple from Pune, India, Shruti Nair and Anil Narasipuram decided to take their court marriage to the next level by hosting a blockchain wedding. According to Anil, the husband: “I read some articles on how people in other countries were doing blockchain marriages and it motivated me.” Other prominent crypto entrepreneurs to follow the trend include Rebecca Kacherginsky, Coinbase’s staff product designer. Most people…

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and MIT Release Central Bank Digital Currency Research and Open-Source Code – Regulation Bitcoin News

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have jointly published the initial findings of their central bank digital currency (CBDC) research. They also published the open-source code for the CBDC project. Boston Fed and MIT Publish Initial Findings of Their CBDC Research The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) released the initial findings of their central bank digital currency (CBDC) research on Thursday. This research is separate from the digital dollar research conducted…

Myanmar’s military government considers launching digital currency: Report

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The armed forces of Myanmar, which have been in control of the government since forcibly detaining many elected leaders in 2021, is reportedly planning to release a digital currency to help the local economy. According to a Thursday report from Bloomberg, Major General Zaw Min Tun said rolling out a digital currency would “help improve financial activities in Myanmar,” but military officials were undecided on whether to work with local companies or release the token on their own. Tun, the chief of the military government’s “True News Information Team,” acts…

US lawmakers issue warnings about digital yuan as Winter Olympics kicks off

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With the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics completed and all competing athletes currently in China, two members of Congress are warning of the potential dangers of using digital yuan at the events. According to a Friday report from Reuters, Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday expressing concern that the Chinese government could use the games to promote greater adoption of its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital yuan. The country has been…

Sen. Toomey Sounds Warning About China’s Digital Yuan as Olympics Start

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