Sentences with phrase «role as a currency»

Genzken disassociates money from its role as currency, and encourages an appreciation of it as a material object, as a social artifact, and for its symbolic connotations.

The paper also indicates that privacy - focused altcoins, such as Monero and Zcash, may be cutting into bitcoin's role as the currency of the online black market.

Although this initial position was mostly based on bitcoin in its role as a currency and not so much the payments network, Pols excludes the possibility of banks using the latter as well.

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Bank of England governor Mark Carney said this week that the G20 needed to consider how easily digital coins should be converted into other central - bank issued currencies, as well as the role of anonymity, as «a lot of the underlying use of these currencies has been illicit activity».

For some teams, ETH's short time in existence played a bigger role than others, while some saw the potential for Ethereum to become a major player not only as a currency, but also in part because of its unique ecosystem.

In addition, the Parliament proposes the role of a «custodian wallet provider» as an entity that would provide services to safeguard customers» private cryptographic keys that are used to hold, store, and transfer virtual currencies.

Due to the massive debt being amassed by government spending, the role of the dollar as the global reserve currency is threatened.

As digital currencies emerge, therefore, the preference for decentralised payment systems would ostensibly render the use of a banking intermediary redundant, which raises pertinent questions regarding the role — or lack thereof — of central banks.

The very next year, in May 2015, JPMorgan Chase was hit with a new felony count for its role in rigging foreign currency markets as part of a banking cartel.

Prior to that, Chris spent 11 years at AMP Capital Investors, including as the head of interest rates and currencies, and has also fulfilled various roles at Bankers Trust, Credit Suisse First Boston and Reserve Bank of Australia, and lectured for the Faculty of Commerce, University of New South Wales and the SIA.

February 6th will see the SEC's Jay Clayton and CFTC's J. Christopher Giancarlo appear as witnesses before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, as part of a session dubbed Virtual Currencies: The Oversight Role of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Two issues stand out for the business community as particularly important ones to consider: inward direct investment flows from China and the continuing role of the UK as an RMB currency hub.

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Maca was used by the ancient Peruvians as currency for trade and played an important role in their cooking and medicinal uses for over 3,000 years.

After the US financial crisis began to heat up after Lehman Brother's bankruptcy in mid-September 2008, the Federal Reserve began to lower interest rates and the dollar, up until then rarely used as a funding currency, soon found itself in that role.

In a research note, Barclays Capital explains «For analysts... gold has traditionally been a tricky one due to its multiple roles as a commodity, currency, inflation hedge and hedge against credit risk and macroeconomic uncertainty.

Even Bloomberg admits there are implications for the U.S. dollar's well - established role as the global currency of the oil market, as Sungwoo Park sums up some of the key questions...

In his role as assistant fund manager he transferred to Aberdeen's Singapore office in 2004 to facilitate the incorporation of Asian fixed income into global bond portfolios, before joining the Asian fixed income team in 2005 to focus on Asian local currency interest rate and foreign exchange strategy.

The Fed certainly does play an important role in accommodating temporary spikes in the demand for currency (as it did around the «year 2000» turn), and in providing economic information, data and analysis.

Such automatic platforms pay a valuable role in the receiving extra income as the result of thorough analysis and tactics that are researched in currency trading.

Coins return in Super Mario Odyssey; however, rather than giving an extra life for every 100 collected (as lives are absent), or healing Mario (as hearts fulfill this role), they are instead used as a global currency in this game and can be spent on clothing, Power Moons and Life - Up Hearts in the Crazy Cap stores spread across the kingdoms.

If you do not feel like going through the motions and earning the bucks then you can purchase a separate in - game currency which can be used in the same roles as bucks.

Paralleling and entwined with Simon's mostly unknowable rationale for purchasing and selling individual works is the role that gold played related to the valuation of the original works as currency and a medium for art production.

But the role that animals play in human conflict — both as victims and as currency — is also in our hands.

According to Nicholas Gregory, CEO of London - based CommerceBlock, this comes as good news for the bitcoin sector, as government attention is like a stamp of approval: «What some will bill as censure, the cryptocurrency community will deem a stamp of approval that finally recognises the pivotal role that digital currencies will ultimately hold for the global economy.

The Legaler token fulfils a utility role, serving as the native currency within the Legaler ecosystem.

But as games got larger and more complex, so has the role of in - game currencies.

As cryptocurrencies grow and expand exponentially, they are also beginning to take over the role of paper currencies.

As the Asian nation's efforts to control its currency continue to draw headlines, cryptocurrency fund manager Jacob Eliosoff pointed to data supporting the notion that China is playing a key role in bitcoin trading.

«What some will bill as censure, the cryptocurrency community will deem as a stamp of approval that finally recognizes the pivotal role that digital currencies will ultimately hold for the global economy.»

RBC Capital's Mitch Steves returns with another missive about Nvidia's role in «mining» crypto - currencies, such as Ethereum; that market's value to Nvidia in terms of GPU sales has effectively risen by $ 100 million, or 25 %, in the last 11 days, he estimates.

Ethereum blockhain, with its role as the technology underlying digital currencies and not what constitutes them, is much more versatile than the digital currencies it powers.

«Digital fiat currency would certainly be influenced by [the] existing payment system and information technologies, but it should be distinguished from [the] current payment system so as to focus on service delivery and play its role in replacing traditional currency.

None of these cryptocurrencies are suited to playing the most basic role of currency, as a relatively stable medium of exchange.

BTC's current technical settings are not fluid enough to have a meaningful role as a daily, commonly used currency to factor regular economic transactions.

Along the same lines, Deloitte's seventh Technology Trends report featured a short analysis by Brian Forde, Director of digital currency at MIT Media Lab, who emphasised the role of cryptocurrencies as facilitators of monetary and legal transactions without third parties and stated that «in fact, similar to the Internet, which exponentially increased communication by reducing cost and friction to near zero, cryptocurrencies have the potential to exponentially increase transactions for the same reasons.»

Long - time Bitcoin investors and cryptocurrency researchers believe that the rise of cryptocurrencies as a new emerging asset class is playing a small role in the decline of fiat currencies across the globe, by separating money and state.

In the video, it's explained that «the technology behind crypto currencies such as Bitcoin will inevitably and radically change the role of traditional trusted parties such as banks, accountants, notaries, and governments.»

In the broader context of the arrival of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and in light of payments and regulatory innovation in the European market, this paper investigates the changing role of money in retail payments and the associated question as to whether central bank fiat currency risks to fall behind.

«The government had warned several times that virtual coins can not play a role as actual currency and could result in high...

As the currency becomes more important, the insurance industry is beginning to play a role in protecting this currency.

You could also indicate the cryptocurrency creators who emphasize that Bitcoin doesn't play the same role as that of fiat currency.

The government had warned several times that virtual coins can not play a role as actual currency and could result in high losses due to excessive volatility.

Titled, Virtual Currencies: The Oversight Role of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, both Jay Clayton of the SEC and the CFTC's J. Christopher Giancarlo will face lawmakers who are openly worried about the brave new future of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.

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Gold plays two roles: 1) insurance to fear 2) as a currency which usually does not perform very well in a deflationary environment.