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Mark Mobius: Buy Gold as Bitcoin Price Rises, Central Banks Cut Rates
20.8.2019
Veteran frontier markets investor Mark Mobius suggested that cryptocurrencies will help boost the price of gold
Passing the Burden of Negative Rates to Bank Clients Opens Door for Cryptocurrencies
17.8.2019
Record low and negative interest rates have put commercial banks in a difficult spot. Across Europe, they have been passing the burden to their clients. Some have introduced fees for those with large account balances, while others are punishing everybody equally. In any case, some bankers fear this...
Normalizing Negative Interest: It’s Flabbergasting How Closely Media Parrots the Government
12.8.2019
Negative interest rates have been making big headlines lately, as several countries and big banks are now experimenting with the unorthodox monetary policy. While typically viewed as a last-ditch effort to shock some life back into struggling economies, these policies are getting a shiny new spin...
Owning Fiat Just Got More Expensive – NIRP Strikes Again
8.8.2019
With the recent Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) announcement that even more customers will be charged to hold money in their banks, people are scrambling to find ways to preserve their wealth, while USB and others scramble to dam the losses resulting from national negative interest rate policy...
More Signs the Next Big Financial Crisis May Begin in Germany
3.8.2019
Germany, the locomotive of Europe’s huge economy, is entering a difficult period, various indicators suggest. And when the Federal Republic sneezes, the Old Continent usually catches cold. This time, Germany may infect the rest of the world as well. An economic and financial crisis there...
How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking
25.7.2019
In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score.
It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused...
US, EU and Japan Could Trigger ‘Cold Currency War’ by Debasing Fiat
24.7.2019
The world’s major central banks are waging war to determine who can make their respective fiat currency weaker. With the likelihood of even more money printing and negative interest rates ahead, people need to be ready to see the value of their money evaporate and the price of everything else...
How Big Hydro Power Partners With Bitcoin Miners to Prevent Energy Waste
22.7.2019
We are often told that the verification of bitcoin transactions eats a lot of energy. The largely inaccurate comparison to a small country, the size of Ireland or Denmark, is evoked thanks to numerous clickbait headlines. What mainstream media fails to explain, however, is that bitcoin mining...
‘Don’t Worry We Can Just Print More Money’ – Swedish Central Bank Ponders -1.5% Interest Rate
6.7.2019
At a press conference on Wednesday, the head of the Swedish Central Bank admitted that interest rates could potentially go as low as -1.5%, and quipped that Swedes likely wouldn’t even protest. Other countries implementing negative interest rate policies are producing lukewarm results that...
Three Bank Failures Open New Chapter in Never-Ending Financial Crisis
5.7.2019
The collapse of three banks on three different continents indicates a new global crisis is brewing. But it may also show that the last one never really ended and the tools used to manage the global economy simply don’t work. Also read: Side Effects of Economic Growth: Is Snowden Right to...
Side Effects of Economic Growth: Is Snowden Right to Say Bitcoiners Shouldn’t Be Bankers?
1.7.2019
Growth is a goal that’s worth achieving, in most cases, and the current economic paradigm favors it. But when central banks start undermining their fiat economies and crypto companies begin to mimic financial institutions in its name, growth becomes an end in itself with self-destructive...
In a World Where Central Planners Push Debt, Cryptocurrencies Look Better Every Day
6.6.2019
Economists have been predicting a worldwide recession which could pose a risk to financial stability throughout various countries. Fear of an economic downturn has caused the central bank of Australia to cut interests rates on Tuesday and both the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Reserve Bank of India...
Shipping Companies Raise Cargo Rates For Transporting Goods From The US To Venezuela
29.5.2019
According to three industry sources and two documents, the cargo rates for transporting goods from the United States to Venezuela has been raised by two major shipping company this month. The reason is said to be because the U.S has sanctioned limit transit between the two countries. Earlier on...
Countries Suffering From Rapid Inflation Show Significant Demand for Cryptos
28.5.2019
Cryptocurrencies have been trending upwards in price over the last few weeks, but in certain countries around the world digital assets have become far more valuable. For instance, in Argentina, the nation’s sovereign currency has lost considerable value and cryptocurrencies like BTC...
Polkadot Tokens Sold on Secondary Markets at Discounted Rates: Report
24.5.2019
Tokens for the Polkadot protocol are reportedly being offered on secondary markets at heavily discounted rates
Crypto Lending Startup BlockFi Slashing Interest Rates on Ether Deposits
22.5.2019
BlockFi is almost halving the interest rate it offers on ether deposits from June 1, while the rate on larger bitcoin deposits will go up slightly
BlockFi Crypto Management Firm Adjusts Interest Rates
21.5.2019
BlockFi asset management has adjusted interest rates for accounts holding bitcoin and ether
Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum (ETH) Strong Enough To Withstand Uncle Rates, Gas Generation Strong
15.5.2019
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, posted the current uncle rate vs gas generation analysis on Twitter. He went on to claim that stale blocks per new block infused have come down by five times since inception. Latest Ethereum uncle rate vs gas regression: Uncle rate = 0.033 + 0.0065...
Who has the fastest website in F1?
2.4.2019
Jake Archibald looks at the websites of Formula One race teams and rates their performance, carefully examining their images and digging into the waterfall of assets for each site:
Trying to use a site while on poor connectivity is massively frustrating, so anything sites can do to make it less...
Realtime Cryptocurrency Rates API with coinlayer
24.7.2018
Last year when cryptocurrencies were gaining massively in value each month, I badly wanted to create a personal web project which would let me quickly buy and sell crypto outside of brokers like Coinbase; the problem I ran into was not having a reliable API for doing so. I recently discovered...