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Minereum Launches Crypto Bond With up To 50% Yield
26.8.2020
Minereum, the project behind the first self-mining smart contract, has released a new crypto bond allowing investors to earn up to 50% a year on their digital assets. The Minereum Crypto Bond is described as a blockchain experiment to prove that it is technically possible to bring traditional bond...
Learn to Profit From Bitcoin’s Growing Correlation With Traditional Assets
13.8.2020
Veteran crypto traders Scott Melker and Michaël van de Poppe will be discussing Bitcoin’s different types of correlation with traditional assets and how to best profit from them
Only Bitcoin Outpaces G4 Central Bank Balance Sheet Growth
7.8.2020
Investment strategist Raoul Pal says bitcoin is the only asset with a growth rate that outpaced that of G4 central bank balance sheets. Pal says G4 central bank balance sheets have grown much faster than traditional safe-haven assets like gold. A founder and CEO at Global Macro Investor (GMI)...
The Bond Market Is the Truth Teller No One Heeds, Feat. George Goncalves
30.7.2020
A veteran bond strategist gives his take on why the bond market has a better read than equities on short-term and long-term macro trends
Investors Now Lose Money by Holding Bonds, Pushing Them Into Riskier Assets
23.7.2020
Inflation-adjusted yields on all U.S. treasury bonds are now negative as the Fed is widely believed to be propping up markets
Philippines Launches Blockchain App to Distribute Government Bonds
21.7.2020
The Philippines has launched a blockchain-enabled mobile application for the distribution of government-issued bonds
Christophe Cieters: Monopoly Money
12.7.2020
As money developed and people opted to place it in secured storage, banks started issuing banknotes which represented a client’s deposit at the bank and the promise to redeem each note for the amount of gold it represented at a 100% reserve rate. Market exchange rates of the coins were...
British Money Printer Goes BRRR: Bank to Buy USD 125bn of Bonds
18.6.2020
The Bank of England – the UK’s central bank – has sent its money printers into full BRRR mode, agreeing to essentially create USD 125 billion worth of pound sterling as the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt the British economy.
Per the BBC, the bank’s nine-member governing council voted...
Thailand to Raise $6.4M With Sale of Blockchain-Based Bonds
17.6.2020
The Thai Public Debt Management Office plans to sell the cheaply priced bonds through a state-owned bank’s blockchain e-wallet
Limitless Bailouts: US Federal Reserve Announces Billion-Dollar Corporate Bond Purchase Program
16.6.2020
During the last three months, the U.S. Federal Reserve has created a system of monetary avarice, as the central bank can literally do whatever it wants with zero oversight. The American public recently witnessed the Fed’s announcement on Monday, which explained the central bank will be buying...
Exponential Growth: Bitcoin’s Trading Volume Could Rival Major Asset Classes
4.6.2020
Bitcoin’s trading volume has experienced exponential growth which could reach levels similar to major asset classes, according to a new report by Coin Metrics. The cryptocurrency’s daily volume could exceed that of all U.S. equities in less than four years and all U.S. bonds in less...
Use Bitcoin, Gold, and Bonds as a Hedge Against Inflation - BitMEX
25.5.2020
With central banks and governments around the world injecting massive amounts of liquidity into financial markets, the threat of future consequences in the form of inflation is keeping many in the crypto community up at night, with major crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX now advising clients...
Buying Corporate Bonds and ETFs: US Federal Reserve Continues to Bailout ‘Too Big to Fail’
12.5.2020
The U.S. Federal Reserve has continued its schemes of monetary easing and funding a number of private banks during the Covid-19 outbreak. On Monday evening, the Fed revealed it would be buying corporate bonds and exchange-traded funds using the entity’s Secondary Market Corporate Credit...
Famed Economist Speaks: ‘US Coronavirus Bailout Scam,’ American Imperialism, De-Dollarization
30.4.2020
During the last few weeks, the world has been dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. These days, however, many of the world’s citizens are growing more concerned over the government’s reactions than the virus itself. Moreover, with the U.S. economy feeling the hardship of over...
Crypto Long & Short: The Battle of the Yields
20.4.2020
What does the current crisis mean for the value of actual cash, and how does it stack up to assets like bitcoin and gold?
How DeFi Dinner Bonds Can Help Restaurants During Crisis – DeFi Dad
8.4.2020
Travis Blane (aka DeFi Dad) explains how digital gift certificates ("Dinner Bonds") can help get money to restaurants
CoinDesk Quarterly Review, Q1 2020
8.4.2020
March 12 changed how investors look at crypto markets and assets, shook out some participants and left others unmoved. The CoinDesk Quarterly Review is a Q1 analysis of how the narrative has changed for crypto blue-chips like Bitcoin and Ethereum, which assets outperformed, and how the participants...
Cryptocurrency News From Japan: March 29 - April 4 in Review
5.4.2020
This week’s news from Japan included Nomura Research unveiling Japan’s first blockchain-based bond, the FSA receiving regulatory comments from the public, and more
Cash Crisis: National Currencies Plunge in the Wake of Coronavirus
24.3.2020
Announcing an open-ended QE program Monday for unprecedented asset purchasing, the U.S. Federal Reserve has pledged to purchase assets "in the amounts needed," signaling the beginning of a virtually unlimited easing effort which will include moving into corporate bonds for the first time.
The post...
QE4 Begins: Fed Cuts Rates, Buys $700B in Bonds; Bitcoin Rallies 7.7%
15.3.2020
Effectively, this is “QE4,” the fourth major round of quantitative easing by the American central bank since the global financial crisis a little more than a decade ago