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2023-10-31 16:34:01 Banking Giant Standard Chartered’s Crypto Custody Firm Zodia Launches in Hong Kong

Zodia Custoday, a crypto custody firm owned by Standard Chartered, Northern Trust, and Japan’s SBI, is launching services in Hong Kong, CNBC reported Sunday. The company is based in London and registered in the U.K. with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), in Ireland with the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), and in Luxembourg with the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF).

Julian Sawyer, the CEO of Zodia, explained that Hong Kong is a market where institutional demand for crypto is stronger than retail demand, making it the ideal market for her company.

Zodia is commencing its service rollout in Hong Kong in phases. In the initial phase, its goal is to offer services for a limited set of crypto assets to clients in Hong Kong. Additionally, the company is actively in talks with both the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to ensure regulatory compliance.

The crypto custody firm has been actively expanding in Asia and has recently expanded its services to Japan, Singapore, and Australia. Open / Comment

2023-10-28 18:47:01 Binance Appoints New Regional Head for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Binance, the largest digital assets exchange by daily trading volume, has appointed Kyrylo Khomyakov as its new regional head for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Central Asia. Until now he was Binance’s General Manager for CEE.

Khomiakov will manage the company’s teams, focus on enhancing products and services and optimizing user experience to grow its business, a press release detailed. He will also oversee Binance’s marketing strategy and contacts with governments.

Amid heightened regulatory pressure in the U.S. and the EU, Binance has sought to increase its presence in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space as part of its regional expansion. Since 2022, the leading global exchange has opened an office in Romania, a blockchain hub in Georgia, launched an educational program in Kazakhstan and offered to assist Azerbaijan with crypto regulations. Open / Comment

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2023-10-25 16:26:01 Robert Kiyosaki Shares His Investment Strategy — Says He’s Not Trying to Be Warren Buffett

Kiyosaki wrote on social media platform X Sunday:

Rather than pretend to be Warren Buffett picking bottoms I am an average investor ‘accumulating’ the asset I want for the long term. I have been accumulating gold, silver, bitcoin, and real estate for years. My first gold coin cost $50. Today that same coin is worth $2,000. You can become rich by being an average investor, using dollar cost averaging to get rich. Take care. Gold dropped $10 today. Silver 14 cents. This is where ‘dollar cost averaging’ pays off.

Buffett is a proponent of value investing. He previously explained that the secret of his investing success is to make “investments in businesses with both long-lasting favorable economic characteristics and trustworthy managers.”

Unlike Kiyosaki, Buffett is not a fan of bitcoin. The Oracle of Omaha is famous for saying the cryptocurrency is “probably rat poison squared.” He said in April that BTC is a gambling token that doesn’t have any intrinsic value. In May last year, he said he wouldn’t pay $25 for all bitcoin in the world. Open / Comment

2023-10-22 19:20:00 Data Protection Bodies Call For ‘Privacy Threshold’ in Digital Euro Transactions

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have made several recommendations on how to ensure high-level protection for the personal data and privacy of users of the future digital euro.

The stated aim of the eurozone’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) is to provide Europeans with an alternative means to make online and offline payments, complementing cash.

However, the agencies believe that data protection should be embedded in the digital euro’s design itself and suggest further improvements to guarantee that the rights to privacy and protection of personal data are effectively preserved.

Introducing a “privacy threshold” under which neither offline nor online low-value transactions with digital euro can be traced for anti-money laundering or counter-terrorism financing purposes is one of the steps the EDPB and the EDPS “strongly recommend.”

The two organizations are also objecting to the proposed establishment of a single access point to verify that individual digital euro holding limits are not exceeded. Open / Comment

2023-10-19 19:59:01 Crypto Tokens MOON and BRICK Plunge as Reddit Sunsets Community Points

While they might not ring a bell, two digital currencies, MOON and BRICK, have witnessed a significant plunge in value over the past 24 hours. This tumble springs from Reddit’s decision to back away from offering Community Points, setting the sun on the project come November 8, 2023. Although Reddit has expunged the Community Points FAQ page, it remains accessible through archived snapshots.

Initially brought to light by Techcrunch, the news garnered further clarity as Reddit’s Director of Consumer and Product Communications, Tim Rathschmidt, explained the rationale behind shelving the venture. “Though we saw some future opportunities for Community Points, the resourcing needed was unfortunately too high to justify,” Rathschmidt told Techcrunch contributor Morgan Sung. The Reddit executive also noted that the regulatory climate has played a part in the reasoning.

Following the dissemination of the news across the crypto community and Reddit, two Community Points tokens, MOON and BRICK, took a nosedive. The r/cryptocurrency coin MOON tumbled 84% while the r/fortnite token shrunk nearly 40% in value.

“Terrible move that will make Reddit very untrustworthy going on, you just ruined a lot of dreams [and] cost people an insane amount of time and money that they invested just so you could say that your trial was cool [and] you got some info from it all?” another person wrote. Within the same thread.

Since their inception in 2021, Reddit’s blockchain-fueled Community Points tokens had woven a fabric of expectation among Redditors, many of whom envisioned the project sailing smoothly for several more years. A handful of Redditors have articulated their resolve to uphold these projects independently, without Reddit’s patronage. As of now, the MOON tokens ecosystem has a total of 126,013,438 tokens shared among 211,104 unique holders. Open / Comment

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2023-10-16 16:30:51 Amidst Controversy, Telegram Will Keep Hamas’ Channels Open

Telegram, the messaging platform, is in the media spotlight due to its utilization by Hamas, the Palestinian organization, to post violent war-related content. According to reports, Hamas’ official channel in the app has published more than 125 videos documenting its attack on Israel, prompting mainstream media sources and activists to call out Telegram for allowing this kind of content to be hosted on its platform.

Yasmin Green, CEO of Jigsaw, a Google-owned organization that “explores threats to open societies,” told CNBC that she was afraid this kind of content could bring Hamas’ followers to organize and set up more violent acts.

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov defended the platform’s position, allowing the seemingly official Hamas channel and others related to keep operating. Durov stated that while platform moderators remove millions of “obvious harmful content,” tackling war-related content is rarely as easy.

Furthermore, he stated that while other platforms allow what he called “shocking content” to be shown to unsuspecting users, these only get content that they have subscribed to receive while using Telegram. For this, Durov believes it is unlikely for Telegram to be used to amplify propaganda, stressing that this content also serves as “first-hand information” for journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers. Open / Comment

2023-10-11 20:49:02 Hong Kong Monetary Authority Advances e-HKD Tests, Mbridge Project

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has recently offered new insight into the different tests conducted with the e-HKD, a proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC). Eddie Yue, CEO of the HKMA, revealed that these tests focused on the programmable function of the e-HKD, allowing the issuer to establish certain limits in which the digital currency can be used.

According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), this feature was tested by the Bank of China in Hong Kong this month. Furthermore, the bank has teamed up with ten firms, allowing customers to use the e-HKD in various retail payment promotions.

The HKMA is also a part of Project Mbridge, a CBDC network currently being tested jointly with the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and the central banks of Thailand and the United Arab Emirates.

Yue’s estimations differ from what Reuters, citing four people with knowledge on the subject, reported in August when it informed that Mbridge might have a minimum working product ready by year-end. Open / Comment