The Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, through its CBDC division officially announced the demonstration of the minting process of the digital currency, within the framework of a financial ceremony, where the Minister of Finance of Jamaica, Nigel Clarke, the governor of the BOJ, Richard Byles, and a group of top…
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Amazon will accept cryptocurrencies and prepares to launch its own Token by 2022
Amazon, the largest and most well-known trading company in the world, will accept payments with Bitcoin by the end of the year and is also in the process to create its own token in 2022, as revealed by an unidentified source to a British…
Mastercard and Circle to boost USDC market
Circle announced its alliance with multinational financial services company Mastercard to promote the use of USDC to facilitate fiat-to-crypto conversions, in an attempt to expand the ability of crypto companies to use digital assets for…
Central Bank of Ghana to launch pilot test for CBDC in September
The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana (BoG), Maxwell Opoku-Afari, reported that the institution will undertake, in September this year, a pilot program for the 'digital cedi', the country's official currency. The announcement was…
El Salvador Congress approves bitcoin as legal tender
This Wednesday, June 9, the Congress of El Salvador approved a law that will convert bitcoin into legal tender in this nation. The initiative was approved with the votes of 62 deputies of the 84 in Parliament and will enter into force 90…
Central Bank of Brazil studies the creation of a cryptocurrency
The Central Bank of Brazil is studying the possibility of developing a digital currency, with the aim of creating a virtual digital extension of the Brazilian real to "accompany the dynamism of technological evolution of the Brazilian…
Bitcoin hits new all-time high and reaches $ 63,000
This Tuesday, April 13th, bitcoin surpassed $ 63,000 (equivalent to 52,985 euros) for the first time and set a new record, close to $ 63,200 (53,153 euros), driven by investors' fear of inflation.
According to the Bloomberg news portal,…
Japan to experimentally test digital currencies
The Bank of Japan announced that it will carry out tests with a digital currency, conceived in response to the boom in digital payment services and cryptocurrencies, and in line with initiatives undertaken by other reference entities.
The…
The Caribbean will have a joint cbdc
At the end of March, the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) announced the launch of its own Dcash, which will initially circulate in four countries in the region.
Specifically, the digital currency is planned to join the economies of…