ECB’s Lagarde, Panetta See Digital Euro as More Efficient Payment Means Than Crypto

Unbacked cryptocurrencies are not an efficient means of payment and stablecoins are vulnerable to runs, top officials at the European Central Bank have pointed out in a new article making the case for a digital euro. The executives have marked key

ECB Chief Lagarde: Crypto and Defi Could Pose ‘Real Risks’ to Financial Stability

The president of the European Central Bank (EKP), Christine Lagarde, says crypto assets and decentralized finance (defi) have the potential to posereal risksto financial stability. She has some regulatory suggestions to supplement Europes Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA)…

Crypto’s Sanction-Slipping Power: Why Bitcoin’s Neutrality Is Its Greatest Humanitarian Asset

Decentralized networks such as Bitcoins dont know national allegiance, they only know math. And when youre trying to get your savings out of an ATM, or send a payment to relatives in a war-torn environment, someone elses politics is the last