Sentences with phrase «own currency»

While there are now many virtual currencies, each with its own blockchain, there are also many government and corporate efforts looking at ways to use blockchain technology to securely record other kinds of data.

Typhon Capital was one of the first traditional hedge funds to dive into the market for digital currencies.

And with the arrival of social networks, the idea that users can help each other is gaining currency.

BI Governor Agus Martowardojo said on Tuesday the central bank had been intervening with «quite a sizeable amount» to defend the rupiah and will continue to stabilise the currency.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov called for «digital resistance», saying he was prepared to give out millions of dollars worth of grants in bitcoin digital currency to individuals and companies that run proxies and VPNs to support internet freedom.

And that billboard was, at the time, one of the most visible examples yet of how even the most arcane aspects of the cryptocurrency craze are now bleeding into the «real» world — accompanying a wave of interest in more «mainstream» digital currencies like bitcoin.

At $ 383 million, EBITDA was up 7.9 % on the high first - quarter 2017 performance, with a significantly stronger euro particularly compared to the US dollar, which resulted in a $ 26 million negative currency effect (on translation only).

Meanwhile, the State Administration for Foreign Exchange (SAFE) imposed onerous new reporting requirements requiring people to explain why, where and how they intend to use their annual quota of foreign currency (which is capped at $ 50,000 per person).

Countries actually generate revenue from printed currency, thanks to «seigniorage,» or the difference between the cost of production (roughly 9 cents per bill) and its face value.

Digital currency wallet Coinbase is among the companies that use Metropolitan for wire transfers, deposits, and its Shift bitcoin debit card.

Investors should have some of the portfolio hedged — a hedge on half could make sense, as that would essentially be a neutral call on currency, he says — but whether an entire basket of bonds is hedged is up to the manager.

This may not feel as exciting as a crypto - currency, however getting rich slow is not boring in my view.»

The final thing to say is that those «officials» should pay closer attention to what the Bank of Canada actually says, and less to the over-interpretation of those words by the currency traders who have driven the Canadian dollar to 80 U.S. cents in recent days, a 10 - percent increase since May.

Ethereum, an alternative digital currency, has also gone nuclear — from the $ 12 - mark as recently as March 2017 to $ 385 (# 299) today.

MSCI's emerging market share index fell 0.4 percent with Russian dollar - denominated stocks chalking up some of the biggest losses and currencies and bonds staying firmly under pressure too.

(Gavin Andresen, one early developer of the digital currency, said it appealed to his «mostly libertarian» politics.)

The strong dollar was felt widely across commodity markets and the emerging economies that are now borrowing record amounts of debt in the U.S. currency — $ 3.7 trillion according to the latest figures this week from the Bank for International Settlements.

«The new unit of currency is the individual,» said Brad Smith, a customer service expert at Sage North America during a recent Google Hangout with Entrepreneur.com.

To find the wealthiest people in the world, Wealth - X looked at its database of dossiers on more than 110,000 ultra-high net - worth people and used a proprietary valuation model that takes into account each person's assets, then adjusts estimated net worth to account for currency - exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors.

As Zynga becomes the latest adopter of the digital currency, the move highlights a budding trend: businesses adopting bitcoin to woo a key consumer demographic.

Unregulated digital entities, created by just about anyone out of nothing, that assume some value denominated in fiat currency simple because they're being traded between anonymous people or bots whose only desire is to make prices go up, on unregulated opaque exchanges where everyone thinks price manipulation is good as long as it pushes up the price....

Digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are soaring in value, increasing tenfold in a little over a year.

If that weren't enough, FreshBooks allows you to add your logo to your invoice, initiate repeat billing, calculate taxes, send paper copies and get paid in any currency.

There are currently no emerging - market fixed income products denominated in Canadian dollars; investors have to buy either American dollar securities (also called hard dollar bonds) or the local currency option.

Carlsberg's first - quarter sales fell 5 percent, weighed by a negative currency impact and lower volumes in Russia.

With barbecue, whisky, and heaps of entropy, Zooko and his crew are celebrating the completion of an elaborate computation meant to spawn a new, more private digital currency.

More from the New York Times: Tech thinks it has a fix for the problems it created: blockchain After Cambridge Analytica, privacy experts get to say «I told you so» Russia and Venezuela's plan to sidestep sanctions: virtual currencies

The biggest risk to Canadian investors may not be the default rate at all, but rather currency moves.

The creation of the new currency means every existing bitcoin holder is entitled to an equal amount of what the breakaway miners call «Bitcoin Cash.»

NEW YORK / LONDON, May 2 - Gold prices hovered near four - month lows on Wednesday as the dollar advanced, and were expected to remain under pressure from a significantly stronger U.S. currency and weak investment demand.

«Confidence is created by hard currency, not proclamations that are often qualified,» one investor said in a question read by the chairman.

And while most emerging market debt continues to be issued in local currencies, the IIF said that foreign currency denominated debt issued in these nations swelled by $ 800 billion last year to a record high of $ 8.3 trillion.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A major European dairy cooperative says that currency swings caused by Brexit are among the reasons it has to cut costs by over 400 million euros over the next three years.

«We want to monitor to make sure there's not going to be a resurgence of anti-euro sentiment, which would be negative to European assets and the euro as a currency,» says de la Durantaye.

Most places on Barbados accept U.S. dollars, but you can get more bang for your buck using the local currency, the Barbadian dollar.

«The volatility of bitcoin — and other crypto currencies — is an expected, and important, part of the journey to becoming a mature asset class.

It is also preparing for one or two major investment banks to dive into the market for digital currencies.

«People focus on it as a currency,» says Chris Dixon.

«U.S. stocks are probably among the more overvalued companies on a global scale,» says Luc de la Durantaye, managing director of asset allocation and currency management at CIBC Asset Management.

To resolve that issue, the court had to determine whether (1) virtual currency may be regulated by the CFTC as a commodity and (2) the CEA permits the CFTC to exercise jurisdiction over fraud in connection with commodities that do not directly involve futures or derivative contracts.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov called on Tuesday for «digital resistance», saying he was prepared to give out millions of dollars worth of grants in bitcoin digital currency to individuals and companies that run proxies and VPNs to support internet freedom.

The dollar, traded against a basket of major currencies, rose as high as 92.566, the highest since Jan. 10, before retracing to 92.454.

The world's most popular digital currency exchange, Coinbase, is under fire from angry customers over its decision not to support a new version of bitcoin that could also make it vulnerable to «ruinous legal trouble,» according to a prominent legal scholar.

As Ryan Selkis of the Digital Currency Group tweeted, blockchain is friendlier to business and innovation («I want to make money / follow rules») while bitcoin suggests obsession and perhaps delusion («I'm fighting a holy war»).

Thomas added that Ripple's own digital currency, known as XRP, is less vulnerable to forks or unpredictable changes because, unlike bitcoin, it relies on voting measures that favor users more than miners.

«The coins will change over time as the demand for whatever currency changes,» Hoffner said.

«Provided the Fed conveys a steady - as - she - goes approach and it isn't seen to be back tracking - and there is no reason from the data why it should - the dollar should be consolidating and pushing on from this level,» said Bank of New York Mellon senior currency strategist Neil Mellor.

Playboy's plan and the launch of the Vice token, though, could encourage a wider acceptance of the digital currency.

The Company provides certain percentage changes excluding the impact of foreign currency translation («F / X»).

Henry Blodget discusses this week's bitcoin rally, and how the virtual currency could just as easily go to $ 1 million as it could fall to $ 0.