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How Bitcoin’s Success Could Be Fueling Poverty for Latecomers and Non-Holders, ECB Economists Claim
21.10.2024
Bitcoin’s rise is enriching early adopters at the expense of society, according to a paper by European Central Bank (ECB) economists. They argued that bitcoin’s speculative growth leads to wealth redistribution, where early investors gain while non-holders and latecomers are left...
Why ‘Universal Basic Compute’ Is a Solution to Economic Inequality
3.9.2024
And how DePIN networks could make it possible, according to Mark Rydon, Co-Founder of Aethir
Donald Trump Pushes New Crypto Platform to Challenge Big Banks and Financial Elites
23.8.2024
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has promoted his family’s new cryptocurrency platform, “The Defiant Ones,” to his 7.5 million followers on Truth Social, framing it as a response to financial inequality. The Trump Organization’s crypto initiative, which has garnered...
Legendary cryptographer David Chaum on revolutionizing money to combat global inequality — Yat Siu
10.6.2024
Animoca Brands co-founder and chairman Yat Siu believes mass adoption is closer than one may think, and that blockchain gaming will be the catalyst
NFTs Are the Pillars of Digital Capitalism, Animoca Founder Says
8.2.2024
Yat Siu explains why we shouldn't dismiss NFTs as monkey JPEGs and how blockchain acts as a political system of sorts, fostering a consensus-based democratic process
Americans 'frustrated' by financial system inequality, 20% own crypto: Survey
28.2.2023
Crypto ownership among U.S. adults has remained steady over the last 12 months, with a large portion seemingly "frustrated" by the one-sided global financial system
How cryptocurrency could help tackle global income inequality
31.8.2022
A look at the many ways that cryptocurrency can help to solve the problems associated with global income equality
Russian protest group Pussy Riot seeks to tackle gender inequality in the NFT space
12.1.2022
The Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot plans to launch a DAO that will be promoting LGBTQ+ and women artists
Powerful Free Steam Game Captures The Consequences Of Housing Inequality For People Of Color
5.1.2022
Having been born and raised in one of the “white brick” buildings in Chicago’s now-demolished public housing projects in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood, I’d often find myself fantasizing about what scenarios led my family to live in what is now an empty lot in the shadow of a Target building....
How Bitcoin & Crypto Might Help Ease Wealth Inequality (Without Miracles)
10.10.2021
href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/22/wealth-gap-widening-for-more-than-70-per-cent-of-global-population-researchers-find">worsening. Whether we’re talking about disparities in income or wealth, the gap between the richest and poorest seems only to be widening over tim
Dysfunctional Financial Markets Are Making Inequality Worse
19.3.2021
Arman Hassanniakalager, Lecturer in Finance, University of Bath.
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The global market in government bonds has been bleeding red lately. “Bond market screams for help but no one answers”, says Bloomberg. It is “the worst start to a year in bonds since 2015”, according to the Financial Times....
The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap
18.3.2021
Alex Russell made some interesting notes about performance and how it impacts folks on mobile:
[…] CPUs are not improving fast enough to cope with frontend engineers’ rosy resource assumptions. If there is unambiguously good news on the tooling front,
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The post The Mobile...
Bitcoin Is Digital Social Justice, feat. Tyrone Ross
1.1.2021
The podcaster and CEO of Onramp Invest discusses DeFi, income inequality and the opportunity for bitcoin in 2021
Cashless future ahead? Utopian digital dream with dystopian inequality
2.10.2020
A society without paper money might be a less equitable society. Those lacking digital connectivity would suffer
Sven Henrich on the Ever-Weakening Economic Cycle
25.9.2020
The founder and lead market strategist at NorthmanTrader explains how the Fed has boxed itself in and why our fundamental economic capacity fails to grow
Income Inequality: Can Bitcoin or Other Cryptocurrencies Fix This?
24.7.2020
Despite the benefits of crypto being in the hands of the few, the current crisis may be a harbinger of change
Inequality, Social Chaos, Bankruptcy Rallies: The Best Insights From FinTwit June 2020
9.7.2020
From the "Robinhood Rally" to the most profit-disconnected stock market in history, these are the most interesting ideas from FinTwit last month
Why the Fed Keeps Denying Its Role in Increasing Inequality
11.6.2020
The Federal Reserve expects low inflation, says rates will stay close to zero through 2022 and keeps lying about the role of central banks in increasing inequality
‘Central Banking Is Socialism for the 1%’ – Report Cites Wealth Inequality Driven by Stimulus
18.2.2020
For a while now, central banks like the Federal Reserve have been participating in quantitative easing (QE) practices, despite the fact they don’t like to call it QE. Following the massive dollar injections, a recent report from the wealth insights provider Wealth-x details the number...
Coinbase Pitches Crypto As a Solution for Racial Inequality in Finance
18.2.2020
Coinbase’s new campaign reaches out to ethnic minorities with the claim that crypto can help tackle systemic discrimination in the financial sector