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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....
Post-COVID-19, Bitcoin & Co May Help UK Escape from Economic Funk
14.3.2021
After the UK’s decidedly mixed response to the coronavirus pandemic, the nation has proven something of a frontrunner in all things vaccine-related, leading it to start easing out of its latest two-month-plus national lockdown on March 8 ahead of its European counterparts – almost a year since...
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...
Ethereum Developers On Why They Don’t See Cardano & Binance Chain As Rivals
13.3.2021
Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Max Holloway
It has been an interesting few weeks for Ethereum (ETH). Having hit an all-time high of USD 2,043 on February 20, it has been outshone by a couple of rival platforms and cryptoassets, Binance Smart Chain (and BNB) and Cardano (and ADA).
While neither...
Bomb Demons, Force Shows, NFT Everything and 20 Crypto Jokes
13.3.2021
This adventurous cryptoweek, Vitalik Buterin said Tether is Bitcoin’s ticking time bomb demon, some Ethereum miners are preparing for "a show of force" against EIP-1559, and analysts said ETH miners don’t cause price volatility. Also, XRP jumped as Ripple said its partnership with...
Swaps and NFTs Accelerate MetaMask's Growth
10.3.2021
Source: A Screenshot, Instagram/metamask.io
ConsenSys-owned major Ethereum (ETH) wallet and Web 3.0 browser MetaMask saw its swap feature growing substantially, while non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are also gaining traction.
Their token swap feature, which enables users to compare and swap tokens...
A Debt-Fuelled Economic Crisis & Bitcoin: What to Expect?
7.3.2021
It’s hard to shake the fact that bitcoin (BTC)’s ascent from one fresh all-time high to another in recent months has taken place amid a backdrop of a struggling global economy. The United States’ GDP infamously tanked by a record 32.9% in Q2 2020 and fell by 3.5% across 2020 as a whole, while...
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...
DeFi On Bitcoin To Grow In The Shadow Of Ethereum
6.3.2021
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is big and getting bigger, having accounted for only USD 1bn in total value locked (TVL) in July 2020 and now accounting for around USD 40bn. However, while almost everyone tends to treat the sector as a single, rapidly growing bloc, it’s actually composed of a number...
Mary’s Arrival, NFTs Explosion, Uncomfortable Suits and 20 Crypto Jokes
6.3.2021
This week in crypto news, the Cryptoverse rejoiced as BTC jumped over USD 52K again, and Cardano Mary update arrived with native tokens. Enjin announced two scaling solutions meant to remove gas fees and support NFTs from any blockchain, and as stablecoins in general rise, tether’s supply dominance...
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...
5 Leverage Trading Platforms (for Experienced Margin Traders) in 2021
3.3.2021
As we continue to see new all-time highs in a broad range of cryptoassets, margin traders are back in full force, attempting to capitalize on a bull market that still might trick and liquidate many inexperienced traders.
In this guide, you will discover five trading platforms that you can use...
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...
DOGE’s Rally Has Revived Dogecoin Development, But For How Long?
28.2.2021
Amid all-time highs for bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH) and various other tokens, dogecoin (DOGE) has remained something of a black sheep of the crypto family. It rallied almost 2,000% in the past 12 months, yet it’s still widely regarded as a ‘joke’ currency, despite — or partly because of —...
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...
Crypto Exchanges Scale, But Outages Likely To Remain A Fact Of Life
27.2.2021
Exchanges have been the epicenter of the recent crypto bull market, facilitating the surge of bitcoin (BTC) and other coins towards new all-time highs. However, while they have almost certainly profited from the record prices and volumes the market’s now witnessing, many have been found lacking...
BTC Downturn, ETH Scaling, Coinbase Listing and 20 Crypto Jokes
27.2.2021
Welcome! Let's do a short recap of what happened in the crypto week behind us. Coin Metrics said there's little reason to believe that Bitcoin miners are responsible for downturns in BTC’s price, Kraken’s CEO Jesse Powell said that “extreme” ethereum selling caused Monday’s flash crash to USD...
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...