Not exact matches
Though the philanthropy under Bill Gates» name has partnered with
cryptocurrency firm Ripple in a bid to help the unbanked, the world's second richest man
said Tuesday that the
main feature of Bitcoin and its ilk is not a «good thing.»
In the post, Gates
said the
main feature of
cryptocurrencies is «their anonymity» — which is not good, he
said, because the government needs to track money laundering, tax evasion and terrorist funding.
In a CNBC interview on the sidelines of the Web Summit conference held in Lisbon, Portugal in early November 2017, Oudea
said that the
main benefit of Bitcoin and the other
cryptocurrencies is its ability to provide anonymity to the individuals who are conducting the deals.
«When we started this we decided that our
main focus was going to... make it simple enough that new users can come into
cryptocurrencies,»
said Miron.
«The
main target audience is for investors who do want to invest a big amount of money, but into crypto assets - and we're talking about
cryptocurrencies and tokens which are generated during ICOs,»
said Artem Duvanov, director of the NSD and an adviser to D3, adding:
Likewise, it's not clear which exchanges are in active talks with the Maduro government, though a report by regional news source Panorama on Feb. 21 quoted Maduro as
saying that 36 of «the
main cryptocurrency exchange houses in the world» are working with the government there.
Coinsquare, one of Canada's foremost
cryptocurrency exchanges, has also
said that it will hold an initial public offering (IPO) on the
main TSX exchange later in 2018.
The South Korea Ministry of Strategy and Finance, one of the
main member agencies of the South Korean government's
cryptocurrency regulation task force, has come out and
said that it does not agree with the premature statement of the Ministry of Justice about a potential
cryptocurrency trading ban.
Gates
said, «The
main feature of
cryptocurrencies is their anonymity.
«Currently, the
main uses of blockchain is in
cryptocurrencies and securing data,» he
says, «as due to its decentralised nature the information [it records] can't be tampered with.»
This process is typically straightforward and explained more in - depth later in this guide, however at its core, it simply involves buying a
main cryptocurrency on Coinbase or any fiat - crypto conversion site, and then depositing
said cryptocurrency on one of the supported exchanges.
The Post
said that advertisements for
cryptocurrencies had disappeared from the biggest search engine Baidu and also the
main social media platform Weibo.
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: During a recent «Ask Me Anything» session on Reddit, the Microsoft co-founder
said that the
main feature of
cryptocurrencies is the anonymity they provide to buyers, and Gates thinks that can actually be harmful.