After delaying its blockchain project for one more year last week, Telegram is now asking U.S. investors to leave the project immediately by taking 72% refunds.

Raphael Auer is Principal Economist in the Innovation and Digital Economy unit at the, Bank for International Settlements (BIS). His research focuses on issues related to cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and central bank digital currency. The views expressed here are his and do not necessarily reflect those of the BIS.

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Washington, D.C., is the latest city to consider banning businesses from rejecting cash. Opponents of cashless stores say they discriminate against low-income, homeless and undocumented people.

Deutsche Bank isn't known for its gold bugs, but that hasn't stopped its strategist Jim Reid from writing a paper that discusses "the start of the end of fiat money." Reid's basic contention is this: The dominance of the fiat currency system since Richard Nixon decoupled gold from the dollar in 1971 "is inherently unstable and prone to high inflation," and an offsetting disinflationary shock that kept it afloat since 1980 is now slowly reversing.

Five payments companies led by eBay, Mastercard and Visa have abruptly dropped out of Facebook's project to create a new digital currency, Libra, dealing a major blow to the social network's plan.

The 1894-S Barber Dime is one of only 24 that were ever made, according to Stack's Bowers Galleries, which held the auction Thursday night.

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(Bloomberg) -- Ever since negative interest rates became a thing, banks have been too afraid to pass them on to retail depositors. That may be about to change.In Scandinavia, where sub-zero rates have been the norm longer than most other places.

How worthless is the bolivar, Venezuela's currency? You'd be better off investing in fictional currency from a video game. The virtual gold in "World of Warcraft," the online role-playing game, is now almost seven times more valuable than real cash from Venezuela, whose economy is in shambles. As the South American country suffers an economic crisis due to extreme inflation, the value of bolivar has cratered.

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A former senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia doubts Facebook's cryptocurrency will take control of monetary policy away from central banks.

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We went a long way since the first time two people decided to exchange goods. At the dawn of civilisation, barter was the only peaceful…