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Bitcoin & Inflation: Maturing Into A Real Asset
14.7.2021
James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at major European digital asset investment firm CoinShares.
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Producer prices, being exposed to rising commodity prices, is where inflation is beginning to rear its ugly head. At 7.1% for the developed world, this is now in the 90th percentile...
Holding The World To Ransom: Top 5 Online Gangs
11.7.2021
Roberto Musotto, Research fellow, Edith Cowan University, Brianna O'Shea, Lecturer, Ethical Hacking and Defense, Edith Cowan University, and Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University.
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On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog!
These words from...
Inflation Watch: Four Facts about Soaring Food Prices
4.7.2021
Christian Bogmans is an economist in the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Research Department (Commodities Unit); Andrea Pescatori is an Economist at the Western Hemisphere Department of the IMF; Ervin Prifti is a Senior Economist with the Research Department of the IMF.
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Rising world food...
Why Jason Calacanis Is Wrong and Worldcoin Is Unlikely to Succeed
1.7.2021
There is a new cryptocurrency in the works that has the backing of some of the biggest names in tech. Worldcoin is the startup behind the upcoming crypto project, and the founding team includes the former head of the Silicon Valley business incubator Y Combinator, Sam Altman. Additionally, the list...
How SPACs & Bitcoin Disrupt Common Wisdom Of Investing
27.6.2021
Daniele D'Alvia, Teaching Fellow in Banking and Finance Law, Queen Mary University of London.
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What do Taylor Swift’s record company and Asian “superapp” Grab have in common? They are both part of Wall Street’s recent dealmaking fad: special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
SPACs...
How the Yield Farm Space is Changing
25.6.2021
George Harrap is a veteran crypto entrepreneur currently serving as the co-founder of Step Finance, a Solana-focused portfolio management dashboard, and Head of DeFi at YAP Global, a PR agency specializing in crypto, blockchain, and fintech.
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Yield farming on decentralized finance (DeFi)...
Crypto Savings Rates Are 10X Greater Than High Street, But Is It For You?
25.6.2021
Matthew Shillito, Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool.
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Leading crypto banks such as BlockFi and Nexo are attracting a lot of attention. Customers can earn an APY (annual percentage yield) of up to 12%, dwarfing high-street savings accounts, whose interest rates are sub-1%. But before...
Inside A Ransomware Attack: How Dark Webs of Cybercriminals Collaborate
20.6.2021
David S. Wall, Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds.
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In their Carbis Bay communique, the G7 announced their intention to work together to tackle ransomware groups. Days later, US president Joe Biden met with Russian president Vladimir Putin, where an extradition process to bring...
The hypocrisy of G7: Criticise Bitcoin Mining but Protect Fossil Fuel Industry
13.6.2021
G7 leaders have gathered for a family photo on Carbis Bay Beach ahead of the first meeting of the G7 Summit. George Ferns, Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation, Cardiff University, Marcus Gomes, Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Sustainability, Cardiff University.
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The...
Inflation Might Keep Rising in 2021 - But What Happens Next?
6.6.2021
Brigitte Granville, Professor of international economics and economic policy, Queen Mary University of London.
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The US Federal Reserve has just reassured the markets that it doesn’t expect inflation to get out of hand in the coming months. It comes as concerns about serious inflation damaging...
Ethereum options data shows traders' mixed opinions on ETH's future
4.6.2021
Data shows traders are buying $400 protective puts while also holding $7,000 call options, a signal that traders either have mixed emotions or are just cashing in on the upfront premium
How Crypto Volatility Index Realizes The Upside In Market Downturns
4.6.2021
Luis Martim Aureliano is an independent financial crypto analyst, consultant.
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In its infancy, the crypto market was very directionally one-sided. You could speculate on the market’s upside appreciation, but capitalizing on the downside was limited. Until the introduction of accompanying...
What Crypto Traders & Investors Can Learn From Daniel Kahneman About Noise
30.5.2021
Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UNSW.
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Imagine two doctors presented with identical information about the same patient giving very different diagnoses. Now imagine the reason for the difference is because the doctors have made their diagnosis in the morning or afternoon, or...
FinTok & 'Finfluencers' Are On The Rise: 3 Tips To Assess Their Advice
25.5.2021
Angel Zhong, Senior Lecturer in Finance, RMIT University.
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Queenie Tan is full of financial advice. Whether it is cheap date ideas, buying furniture, saving your first USD 100,000, doing your tax return or investing in Dogecoin, there is seemingly no topic the 24-year-old Sydney woman can’t...
RSK is Bitcoin’s Fastest Growing Layer, Not Liquid nor Lightning
23.5.2021
Since the resolution of the Bitcoin (BTC) block size limit debate in 2017, there has been a general consensus that Bitcoin is likely to scale via a multi-layer protocol stack rather than stuffing every transaction onto the base blockchain.
These secondary network layers, such as the Liquid...
Navigating a New Digital Era Means Changing the World Economic Order
23.5.2021
Shamel Azmeh, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.
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COVID-19 has accelerated the growth in the digital economy through a dramatic increase in working from home, online shopping, digital entertainment, online services, among other...
What Role Could NFTs Play In E-Commerce?
21.5.2021
Justin Banon is the CEO and Co-Founder of Boson Protocol, a dCommerce ecosystem using non-fungible tokens (NFTs) encoded with game theory.
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At the advent of Web 2.0, the now ubiquitous e-commerce platforms were presented and sold as a fairer alternative to how business was done up to that...
Does Digital Yuan Threaten Global Stability?
16.5.2021
Daniel Broby, Director, Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation, University of Strathclyde.
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China is making promising progress with testing its digital yuan currency. It has announced the success of a pilot in Suzhou City, near Shanghai in eastern China, where 181,000 consumers were...
Why The Inflation Rate Doesn’t Tell The Whole Story
16.5.2021
Richard S. Warr, Professor of Finance, North Carolina State University.
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Markets, economists and policymakers have been fretting about inflation for months, worried that the trillions of dollars being spent in recent and future government stimulus programs could overheat the economy...
Are Bitcoin Futures A Top "Risk-Free" Trade?
14.5.2021
Luis Martim Aureliano is an independent financial crypto analyst, consultant.
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With cryptocurrencies surpassing the USD 2trn market capitalization milestone, the upward price momentum has drawn a fair share of cheerleaders and detractors into the conversation surrounding Bitcoin (BTC)’s future....