Following the Summer Olympics in 2008, China will host the 24th Winter Olympics. The event led to the inspiration for the launch of Alibaba and Bithumb’s NFT collectibles. Alibaba, a Chinese multinational tech giant, announced the launch of four non-fungible tokens (NFTs) inspired by the sports featured in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. This is [...]

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China is testing out a central bank digital currency (CBDC) during the 2022 winter Olympics while the rest of the world still remains in a research and development phase. The digital yuan (eCNY) is currently being offered to athletes and foreign visitors to Olympic Village in Beijing, as well as cash or Visa cards. The […]

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Senator Pat Toomey, a senior member of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, urges the Treasury and State Departments closely examine Beijing’s CBDC rollout during the Olympic Games. (Read More)

After eight years of guesses, discourse, and conflicting reports, China’s digital yuan CBDC made a rather low-key debut at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on 4 February. Time to introduce “yuan” self Though China intended to make the introduction of the digital yuan a worldwide spectacle to showcase its fintech finesse, this wasn’t to be […]

In light of media crackdowns, social scoring and human rights abuses within China, a digital yuan strikes this Senator as a tool of control. 

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As China’s digital yuan sees its debut on the first day of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, another country has shown signs of stepping into the CBDC development arena. This was none other than the USA. Just window shopping here The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston [Boston Fed] and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] […]

Why is the most important sporting event in history also one of the most difficult to enjoy in VR? The 2022 Winter Olympic Games are just around the corner, which means many of us have already begun planning our Olympic viewing schedules. Thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, however, most of us were forced to […]

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After a rollercoaster January, Wall Street is now expecting the Fed to aggressively raise interest rates over the course of the year as they scramble to control inflation. The US dollar is once again king as most economists are now expecting the Fed to deliver anywhere between 3-7 rate hikes this year. The upcoming week […]

Joining hands with the United States and Europe is fundamental when meeting technical issues needed in the issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). (Read More)

Japan must cooperate with Europe and the United States in creating a global standard on the technical aspects of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), the chief of Japan’s central bank said on Friday. Several central banks across the world are actively working on their national digital currencies.    Bank of Japan is yet […]