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Russian Banks work on a Blockchain Unit

Russian Banks work on a Blockchain Unit

A few days ago Russian Banks and public institutions revealed that they will create a unit that aims at studying blockchain applications.
Announced on July 1st, this private consortium includes QIWI, B&N Bank, Khanty-Mansiysk Otkritie Bank, Tinkoff Bank, MDM Bank, and Accenture.
The project was announced during the 25th International Financial Congress in St. Petersburg, hosted by the Russian Central Bank.
This unit focuses on the development of “blockchain proofs-of-concept, work on joint research and policy outreach, and the creation of technology standards”. 
The idea for this project came when the QIWI revealed its hope for creating the so-called “Russia’s R3CEV”, a group of financial services focused on the distributed ledger.
CEO Sergey Solonin explained:
 
“I’m convinced that the Consortium, which brought together the Russia’s largest financial company, is able to become an effective platform for multilateral cooperation in exploration, launching innovations and their implementations in financial services.”

Bank of Russia works on the Blockchain

Bank of Russia is not new to an involvement with the Blockchain, in fact,
A few months ago Olga Skorobogatova of Bank of Russia explained that “the development of modern financial markets is inseparable from the development of financial technology”, when the bank revealed his purpose to start studying the distributed ledger back in February 2016.

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Bank of Russia is working on the blockchain

 

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Bank of Russia has revealed its decision to study the potential applications of the blockchain.
On Sunday 28th, February 2016, the central bank, in fact, has announced that they started to analyse the “advanced technologies and innovations in the financial market”, including the blockchain.

Previous statements in Russia

Bank of Russia’s deputy chairman Olga Skorobogatova previously commented:
“The development of modern financial markets is inseparable from the development of financial technology.”
Also, Rambler News Service has reported that Skorobogatova previoulsy commented in 2014 that the Russian central bank thinks the blockchain can have an important role in the future:
“In 2017-2018, we will see real examples of the use of this system. As a closed system, I think the blockchain is the future, and we need to prepare for it.”
In the meantime Russia is supporting a possible “ban on monetary surrogates”, a definition that also includes digital currencies.
In fact Russia’s Ministry of Finance, State Duma and the Investigative Committee have previously commented about the use of the blockchain within their businesses.
Also, earlier this month, Bank of Russia’s head, Elvira Nabiullina, stated that the Russian bank was “monitoring the blockchain to develope its own approach to financial innovation”.

How banks want to improve their users base

 

“Users of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies now number 200,000, with only the US, China and Germany having higher numbers”,
reported member of the Russian State Duma, Andrei Lugovoi.
In fact, Lugovoi stated that the Russian central bank is now positive for a “careful approach to bitcoin and saw a serious economic potential” in the blockchain with the likely objective of a potential growth of their users.

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Russia reconsidering Bitcoin?

(CryptoCoinsNews) Could Bitcoin make it back into Russia? The latest news is that the draft law is in need of major revision as the Russian Ministry of Economic Development has not approved the draft in its current form. This is certainly not because of the desire to enhance freedom and liberty for Russian citizens, but because it may hurt Russian corporations ability to attract new business. The “quasi-money” designation includes things like gift cards and certificates that businesses use to bring in new customers. Banks, major retailers, and telecom companies would take a huge hit, and with the national GDP/economy is already having a terrible year, this bill does more harm than good overall.
“The proposed draft regulation act doesn’t solve any tasks assigned, but only serves to create legal barriers to the implementation of marketing programs of businesses and business development in general,” according to the Ministry of Economic Development.”
The issue with nation-states attacking Bitcoin out of defense of their currency is a complicated one. Many nations are in debt due to their debt-based fiat currency/central banking system. The current inherently flawed system is designed to leave nations indebted. Bitcoin and it’s potential growth leave open a way to build new businesses, generate new revenue streams by attracting investors, and ways for future taxation to help alleviate the nation’s indebtedness. Russia’s previous hard stance against Bitcoin was taken before many of their current economic issues and sanctions manifested.
Russia’s economic situation may continue to spiral downward, as they may soon suffer from restriction of access to the global financial system. In particular to the payment system SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, which supplies secure messaging services and interface software to wholesale financial entities. An international banking computer partnership). Some critics say the government should pay more attention to financial innovations instead of trying to ban them.
Does this mean Bitcoin is in the clear? Not exactly. The bill most likely will be revised, but it may just benefit Russian corporations, but still restrict Russians ability to use electronic currency. The ban may just work around gift cards and bonus cards and remain for digital currency. The nature of the extent of the revisions remains unclear. What do you think Russia will do with Bitcoin?

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Why Telegram is so popular in the crypto community?

Bitcoin can rightly be called the “star” of the past year, since its price rise attracted the world attention to the cryptocurrency market, which becomes inexorably popular from day to day. Questions about how to become a member of the crypto community and earn from it provoked the creation of Telegram channels about cryptocurrencies, which provide users with all the information they are interested in the real-time mode.

And the lack of monetization of the application makes it attractive for both individual participants and large projects – so much attractive that many decentralized projects, digital publishers houses and even exchanges use the messenger and create the full-fledged platforms for communication and advertising. There are even whole groups of “whales” – the owners of large states in the cryptocurrency. Such public accounts can have up to 30 000 – 40 000 active users. The most famous have the talking name – Whale Club and Coin Farm. Here you can meet those who bought bitcoin only for $ 1, and sold for $ 9,000.

$ 5,000 per subscription

There are some channels, sending signals, related to the growth of exchange rates, to subscribers. At the same time, the monetization of such communities is quite successful. So, the price of joining a closed paid channel can reach $ 5,000. Many users are willing to pay such amounts, because they are sure: with one signal it is possible to multiply your asset by up to 10 times. You can be part of a speculative market, but it’s much more effective to create it yourself. This is the opinion of the pump groups subscribers, whose goal is to repeatedly increase the price of a particular currency by making a group exchange purchase by using the strategy of increasing. The final sale price is usually announced in advance and exceeds the purchase price by at least 2 times. For example, in the leading Russian-language pump channel Big Russian PUMP no less than + 200% increase is promised. Further, after the agreed sale, the rate may return to the original values. On such jumps in the token price it is easy to understand whether a coin was pumped or it’s a question of growth against the background of natural demand.

  

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Where is Lambo?

Which messenger still can boast of having the games-bots? Of course, there is no sense to expect a wow effect from them, but they can help to spent some time while transit.

Well, finally, no hype is done without memes, especially when it comes to millions of dollars. If you know the crypto market for a long time, then, for sure, you are familiar with the phrase “When moon?”, which means waiting for the coin to grow. We have collected the top 5 phrases and memes, which any self-respecting crypto trader should know:

1st place – To the moon

The growth of each single coin on crypto market is accompanied with the image of a rocket flying to the moon. Originally for bitcoin, the “cosmic” growth was a figure of $ 1000, then it reached 2000, and now, to fly to the moon, it must overcome the barrier of $ 50,000. In general, for altcoins this distance is much less.

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2nd place – When lambo?

Along with cosmic symbolism, the sign of the crypto trader’ success is Lamborghini, or, as it was fixed in the community, “lambo”. Why is this car, and not Ferrari or Tesla, is unknown. But you can always count how many coins you need to buy this sport car. For example, according to https://crypto-to-lambo.com/, the bitcoin owner will need only 36 coins.

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3 place – Just HODL

Being just some typos, the word hodl (instead of hold – hold), actively spread in the cryptocurrency community’ circles. However, later, it acquired its own meaning: «HODL», Hold on for dear life

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4th place – Mr Trader

Judging by the diversity of this set of stickers, the popular Mr. Trader went through all the charms of crypto market.

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5th place – Cryptolamb

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When it comes to the falling market, no one wants to be known as a “cryptolamb”. This slang characterizes an inexperienced trader who buys the currency at the last stages of growth, often during the pump, without discouraging initial costs.

 

And, at last, we will be honest, Telegram gives only those mailings on which the user is subscribed. There is no place to spam. The only weighty drawback is the number of channels in the phone of the cryptocurrency community member, which quickly grows to a very significant one, making it difficult to use the messenger for its intended purpose and turning it into a clogged news line.

This Article was provided by our friend Christopher Owen

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Also, please click on the images below to the read the full press release published on the major magazines about Bitcoin and the Blockchain, including Cointelegraph Espana, CryptoCoin News, Bitcoin.com, and more… 

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Bitcoin Excel Support among Microsoft projects

Microsoft officially announced its plans to add a Bitcoin Excel support in the upcoming release of its new version of Excel 2017,

This Bitcoin Excel Support will allow users to calculate, format and analyze bitcoin on the program.

Account executive at Microsoft, Martin Butler posted on Twitter:

“In 2017, Excel will be able to recognize, format, calculate and analyze numbers expressed in Bitcoin currency. The new feature will be available for Excel running under Windows 10, Android, Mac OS and iOS, and will include Excel Mobile versions as well.”

Bitcoin expert Alistair Milne first expressed his enthusiasm for the Bitcoin integration. and also the whole Bitcoin community reacted positively for this the company’s effort as it can help a massive adoption for Bitcoin.

“Bitcoin is a currency” for Bitcoin Excel Support

During the past few years, a few government agencies and financial institutions avoided the word “currency” in describing Bitcoin.

The official recognition of Bitcoin worldwide by tax authorities is still a minefield, even if Russia recently declared its decision to recognize Bitcoin as a foreign value.

By the end of 2016, investors and traders were considering Bitcoin as a worldwide currency and the only safe haven asset for its capacity and ability to prevent financial issues and economic problems.

Bitcoin has been crucial in protecting the wealth of most households and businesses in the past 12 months. Maybe it is for this reason that Microsoft coined Bitcoin as a currency for its global users who utilize Microsoft Execel every day.

Microsoft loves cryptocurrencies

Microsoft is heavily involved in the development and deployment of various Blockchain-based platforms, including Azure Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) platform, where businesses can use the distributed ledger to simplify the settlement of financial data.

The company also supported meetups about Ethereum and other blockchain-related companies, demonstrating their love for the cryptocurrencies industry development.

To read more about Microsoft and Bitcoin, click here.

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Saxo Bank Bitcoin Prediction for 2017

Today the Danish investment bank published its Saxo Bank Bitcoin Prediction for 2017, where it explains that wouldn’t be surprised if the bitcoin price will see huge growth during next year.

Saxo Bank, in fact, recently published its annual “Outrageous Predictions for 2017”, a list of speculations that represent its effort to get financial industry think about more possibilities and revolutionary projects for the next year.

In addition to the prediction that UK will not actually leave the European Union (EU) and that Italian equity prices will soar thanks to the European Union led bailout, Saxo Bank affirmed that the bitcoin price will reach a value of more than $2,100 by the end of 2017.

Among its reasons the prediction explained that the American President’s administration might cause turbulence in the American economy, so this can be a good reason for people to invest in digital currencies like bitcoin.

Saxo Bank Bitcoin prediction explains:

“If the banking system as well as sovereigns such as Russia and China move to accept bitcoin as a partial alternative to the USD and the traditional banking and payment system, then we could see bitcoin easily triple over the next year going from the current $700 level to +$2,100 as the block-chains decentralised system, an inability to dilute the finite supply of bitcoins as well as low to no transaction costs gains more traction and acceptance globally.”

Altough this Saxo Bank prediction doesn’t represent an official position, it is not the first bullish indication the bank has made during its career.

In 2014, then-current CEO Lars Seier Christensen explained his personal interest in bitcoin, describing it as a great opportunity for worldwide investors.

At the time, Christensen had also mentioned about early testing of the technology within Saxo bank, although later he explained that liquidity problems at the time were keeping banks on the sidelines.

Source: coindesk.com

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Blockchain Japan Banks: a new Consortium

42 financial institutions created a new Blockchain Japan Banks Consortium focused on decentralized payments.

Created by the financial service called SBI and co-launched with the distributed ledger startup Ripple, this new blockchain consortium includes a wide range of large and small companies and institutions. The creation of this blockchain consortium comes a few days after SBI revealed that it would work to create its own digital currency exchange in Japan.

Members involved in this new program want to share resources and work on a cross-border proof-of-concept, with the goal of creating a new common ground for commercial-scale products in 2017.

SBI explained in a statement:

“The Consortium will promote discussion, from both technical and operational perspectives, on activities required in domestic and foreign exchange services to utilize blockchain and other new technologies, consolidate domestic and foreign exchange services, and build 24-hour and real-time remittance infrastructure, and will try to finish PoC by next March to move forward commercial base.”

Also, SBI explained that efforts to create this blockchain consortium began in August, with the first goal to involve 15 member banks, but the group has rapidly increased its members during the promotional period, the company commented.

This blockchain Japan Banks consortium created by SBI is the latest effort of its kind. Similar groups have been created in recent months among Russian financial companies and European insurance brands. Read more here.

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Central Bank of Canada revealed the digital Cad coin

Is Cad Coin the future for Canada?

Yesterday the Central Bank of Canada announced its new project: Cad coin, or the digital version of the Canadian dollar based on the blockchain.
Cad coin is just a part of a greater study about the blockchain, called “Project Jasper”, according to The Financial Times.
Bank of Canada is not the only bank involved: in fact, other important banks such as Bank of Montreal, CIBC, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Bank are participating to this innovative project.
As you can read on a Forbes post, Bank of Canada is doing tests on a system that allows people to give their cash to the bank that will convert it into Cad coin.

Banks: in love with the Blockchain?

During the last months, we read about several bank projects related to the blockchain and digital currencies.
“The development of modern financial markets is inseparable from the development of financial technology”, said Bank of Russia’s deputy chairman Olga Skorobogatova.
Are these news the proof that banks love blockchain applications or is it just fear?

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Central Bank of Canada revealed the digital Cad coin

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Is Cad Coin the future for Canada?

Yesterday the Central Bank of Canada announced its new project: Cad coin, or the digital version of the Canadian dollar based on the blockchain.
Cad coin is just a part of a greater study about the blockchain, called “Project Jasper”, according to The Financial Times.
Bank of Canada is not the only bank involved: in fact, other important banks such as Bank of Montreal, CIBC, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Bank are participating to this innovative project.
As you can read on a Forbes post, Bank of Canada is doing tests on a system that allows people to give their cash to the bank that will convert it into Cad coin.

Banks: in love with the Blockchain?

During the last months, we read about several bank projects related to the blockchain and digital currencies.
“The development of modern financial markets is inseparable from the development of financial technology”, said Bank of Russia’s deputy chairman Olga Skorobogatova.
Are these news the proof that banks love blockchain applications or is it just fear?

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