{"id":8304,"date":"2018-03-05T09:41:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8304"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:41:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:41:06","slug":"bank-of-england-gov-wants-era-of-cryptocurrency-anarchy-to-end","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/bank-of-england-gov-wants-era-of-cryptocurrency-anarchy-to-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of England Gov Wants Era of Cryptocurrency \u201cAnarchy\u201d To End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Carney is calling for greater regulation to bring the era of cryptocurrency \u201canarchy\u201d to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of England governor said Friday the \u201ctime has come to hold the crypto-asset ecosystem to the same standards as the rest of the financial system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carney, who is also head of the Financial Stability Board, joins a growing chorus calling for greater oversight of the technology after the explosion of new cryptocurrencies created more than $438 billion in paper wealth since March 2, 2017, according to research site CryptoMarketCap.com.<\/p>\n<p>His comments also follow a rollercoaster ride for Bitcoin, which lost half its value at the start of the year after surging to a record near $20,000 in December.<\/p>\n<p>Carney noted that \u201cextreme volatility,\u201d and said it reflected a a lack of any intrinsic value or external backing. He calculated that the average volatility of the top 10 virtual coins by market capitalization was more than 25 times that of the U.S. equities market in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, he lauded the potential value of the underlying technology of Bitcoin, but said the digital currencies themselves have failed as a form of money and rejected the prospect of a central bank digital currency in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Carney is calling for greater regulation to bring the era of cryptocurrency \u201canarchy\u201d to an end. The Bank of England governor said Friday the \u201ctime has come to hold the crypto-asset ecosystem to the same standards as the rest of the financial system.\u201d Carney, who is also head of the Financial Stability Board, joins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[320,322],"class_list":["post-8304","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-tech","news-category-world","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bank of England Gov Wants Era of Cryptocurrency \u201cAnarchy\u201d To End<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bank of England Gov Wants Era of Cryptocurrency \u201cAnarchy\u201d To End\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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