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Volatility Is Crypto’s Best Friend
9.4.2021
Stephen Ehrlich, Co-Founder and CEO at Voyager Digital, a crypto-asset broker.
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Volatility is good for crypto. It serves multiple purposes as the whole crypto ecosystem matures, which we have to remember is an industry and technology that is still only just over a decade old. New and emerging...
An Asynchronous and Divergent Recovery May Put Financial Stability at Risk
8.4.2021
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Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
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After enduring a tumultuous 2020, the global economy is finally emerging from the worst phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit...
5 Ways DeFi Can Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry
6.4.2021
Pradeep Goel, CEO of Solve.Care, a blockchain-powered platform for healthcare benefits administration and payments.
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Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the recent growth of the decentralized finance (DeFi) market could change the game for the healthcare industry. Let’s explore...
The Dark Side Of Coinbase Listing
4.4.2021
Brian Armstrong, CEO and Founder of Coinbase. Source: A screenshot, Coinbase
Jerry Davis, Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan.
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Coinbase’s plan to go public in April highlights...
Are NFTs an Implicit Backdoor Adoption to Crypto?
31.3.2021
Bird Keeper by JUNG. Marie Tatibouet is the Chief Marketing Officer at crypto exchange Gate.io.
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While it took around twelve years for crypto to reach the “early majority” stage in the tech adoption curve, non-fungible token (NFT) adoption is moving much faster. NFTs are bringing crypto...
Joe Biden's USD 1.9T Stimulus Won't Reignite World Economy
28.3.2021
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Michael Kitson, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School.
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The economic orthodoxy has long been that governments should try to balance their books and leave all the heavy lifting in managing their economies...
The Case Of a Plunging Fiat Currency: Turkey's Struggling Lira
26.3.2021
Emre Tarim, Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences, Lancaster University.
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The Turkish lira has once again made global headlines, with a steep drop of 15% on March 22, running from below 7.20 to the US dollar to over 8.28, before settling just below 8.00. This came on the back of a midnight decree...
Why Would Anyone Buy NFT – A Link To A JPEG File?
21.3.2021
Unlimited Possibilities by Buddyart00. Last sold for USD 3,707. Aaron Hertzmann, Affiliate Faculty of Computer Science, University of Washington.
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As an academic researcher, developer of artistic technology and amateur artist, I was quite skeptical about crypto art when I first read about...
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....
WBTC: Where Bitcoin Meets DeFi
18.3.2021
Alexi Lane of Ethereum tokens explorer Ethplorer.
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As bitcoin (BTC) keeps reaching its new all-time highs, all eyes are on the world’s leading cryptocurrency as it dominated news cycles and attracted newcomers to the digital asset industry. The price action of the heavily followed asset...
Why The Return Of High Inflation Can No Longer Be Excluded
17.3.2021
Radu Vranceanu and Marc Guyot are professors of economics at ESSEC Business School.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has caused worldwide economic devastation. In the EU and the United States, many early emergency measures sought to address the shortcomings and disorganization of health care systems....
Will Joe Biden's Stimulus Plan Cause the US Economy to Overheat?
14.3.2021
US President Joe Biden signed the USD 1.9trn coronavirus relief package on March 11. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/potus
Laurent Ferrara, Professor of International Economics, SKEMA Business School.
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American GDP figures published on January 28 show that the country’s economy continued...
NFT: Can Burning A Banksy Make It More Valuable?
7.3.2021
The burning of a Banksy. Source: A video screesnhot, Youtube/Burnt Banksy
Paul J Ennis, Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, University College Dublin.
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A blockchain company has bought a piece of Banksy artwork and burnt it. But instead of destroying the value...
Redefining the Future of Global Finance with DeFi
5.3.2021
Eddy Travia is the CEO of Coinsilium, a focused blockchain, DeFi, and crypto finance venture operator.
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Decentralized, peer-to-peer, and borderless, digital assets and open networks offer a promising alternative to the way money and value has traditionally been transacted — but what is...
Consider These Legal Questions Before Spending Millions on NFTs
5.3.2021
Nelson M. Rosario is an attorney at Smolinski Rosario Law, a US-based law firm, specializing in contract and intellectual property law.
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There are lots of intellectual property (IP) issues that are raised by non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Let's dive in to cover a few.
The main IP issues raised...
The Evidence Is in on Negative Interest Rate Policies
4.3.2021
Luis Brandao-Marques is a Senior Economist in the Global Financial Stability Analysis Division in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Gaston Gelos is Assistant Director in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where he heads...
Financial Institutions Risk To Cut Themselves Off From Innovations
3.3.2021
This is a speech by Hester M. Peirce, pro-crypto commissionaire at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), given at the FinTech Panel at the Institute of International Bankers 2021 Annual Washington Conference this week.
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Thank you, Briget [Polichene]. Good afternoon and thank you...
3 Reasons Why WallStreetBets Army Is Back For New Gamestop Rally
28.2.2021
Larisa Yarovaya, Deputy Head of the Centre for Digital Finance, Lecturer in Finance, University of Southampton.
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GameStop shares have gone soaring again. The Texan computer games retail chain at the heart of the stock market drama at the end of January surged from USD 44 to a high of around...
Why Bitcoin Likes a Hard-On Environment
26.2.2021
Charlie Morris is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of crypto-asset data provider ByteTree Asset Management.
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I want to re-examine the current macroeconomic environment and how it impacts the Bitcoin (BTC) price. It has been a rough week so far, but one thing I can be sure of is that...
Public and Private Money Can Coexist in the Digital Age
21.2.2021
Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli is a Deputy Division Chief in the same Department.
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We value innovation and diversity—including in money. On the same day, we might...