Central bank digital currencies: Bitcoin, Libra could play a role

Cryptocurrency bitcoin and Facebook-backed Libra could play different roles in a world where central banks globally begin to issue their own digital currencies, Raghuram Rajan, former Reserve Bank of India governor, told CNBC.
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Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones: ‘My bet is it will be bitcoin’ as the best inflation hedge – MarketWatch

Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones made a prescient call on bullion in 2019, now he’s saying that bitcoin futures, the controversial digital currency,…
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Get Set for Bitcoin ‘Halving’! Here’s What That Means: QuickTake – Bloomberg

Bitcoin is notoriously volatile, prone to sudden price surges and swift reversals that can wipe out millions of dollars of value in a matter of minutes. Those changes are often mysterious to market observers, given the digital currency’s lack of fundamentals, or ties to the real economy. Bitcoin has another quirk, one that was built into the code that gave it birth: every so often, the formula that governs the rate at which new tokens are created changes. As another such event — called a halvin
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