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Crypto Exchanges to Spend 2021 Focusing on DeFi, UX, and New Services
12.12.2020
After cryptoassets themselves, exchanges are arguably the most important part of the crypto ecosystem. Without exchanges, individuals would have fewer means for buying and selling crypto, which in turn wouldn’t benefit from the impressive price rises that have driven so much investment into...
Bitcoining, Doubling, Confirming, Transforming and 20 Crypto Jokes
12.12.2020
In the world’s No 1 crypto news, in what might be an uneventful December price-wise, as more macro investors are buying into the bitcoin story, and bitcoin's current cycle seems to be "right on track" with "striking similarities" to the previous one, one of the most anticipated...
Remarks to The Federalist Society’s Capital Conversations - Hester M. Pierce
12.12.2020
Hester Peirce. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Blockland Solutions
This is a speech by Hester M. Peirce, pro-crypto commissionaire at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), given to the Federalist Society on December 10, 2020.
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Thank you, Dean [Reuter]. I have...
Everything Your Mom Needs to Know About Crypto...But Was Afraid to Ask
9.12.2020
A speaker at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, which kicked off online today, thinks that crypto is not too complicated for your mother – or your father, for that matter. And even your grandmother could get to grips with bitcoin (BTC), blockchain and the rest, so long as she is able to get to grips...
Crypto in 2021: Bitcoin To Ride The Same Wave Of Macroeconomic Problems
6.12.2020
2020 was the year that the bitcoin (BTC) and the wider crypto market started responding to macroeconomic trends and indicators more actively. While critics continue to argue that this market responds only to its own issues and movements, it looks like investment in bitcoin from the likes...
How the Rich Get Richer
6.12.2020
Davide Malacrino is an Economist in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Wealth begets wealth. This simple concept of privilege has added to growing discontent with inequality that has escalated under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A paper co-authored this...
'Traditional' Art vs. Crypto Art: How to Value It
5.12.2020
EthBoy, by Trevor, Alotta Money. Sold for ETH 260. Updates once a day to reflect ETH/USD, BTC/USD, and Ethereum network gas prices. While the crypto art space seems to be growing at an increasingly fast pace, critics challenge its ability to rival the traditional art market in function...
First ETHs, High BTCs, Pushed USDCs and 20 Crypto Jokes
5.12.2020
This rallying week, after a short correction, bitcoin started hitting all-time highs. We took a look at the 3 and a half phases Ethereum will go through on its path to full ETH 2.0 rollout, just before the long-awaited launch of Phase 0, with a number of exchanges supporting ETH 2.0 staking....
Why Crypto Will Outperform Gold and Gov. Bonds in a Post-COVID World
29.11.2020
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...
Undetected Inflation: Your Money Devalues Faster Than You Think
29.11.2020
Marshall Reinsdorf is a senior economist in the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Statistics Department and past president of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.
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Lockdowns, working from home, and physical distancing caused people to spend larger shares of their...
Crypto Tech In 2021: Focus on Scalability, Privacy and Usability
28.11.2020
Among other things, cryptocurrency is also fintech, financial technology. With bitcoin (BTC) hitting its highest ever market capitalization in November, the financial part of this combination has received plenty of attention in recent months, but what about the technology part?
While they don’t...
Rallies, Corrections, ATH Conundrums and 20 Crypto Jokes
28.11.2020
This past week in crypto, bitcoin made a strong move and surpassed USD 19,000, but not before coins below USD 1 had their own rally as the best performers among the top 100. Speaking of BTC climbing, we wondered what exactly is bitcoin’s all-time high. Then, BTC dropped below USD 17K and altcoins...
ECB Exec: Sovereign Money Needs To Be Reinvented
27.11.2020
Fabio Panetta. Speech by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), at the Deutsche Bundesbank conference on the "Future of Payments in Europe." Frankfurt am Main, 27 November 2020.
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Retail payments play a fundamental role in our daily lives...
This Is How Confiscated Bitcoin, Ethereum, And Monero Sold By The Taxman
26.11.2020
Source: Adobe/stockphoto-graf
Selling the confiscated EUR 6.4m (USD 7.63) in crypto for the Lithuanian tax authority was a lengthy and complicated process that lasted at least two months and required long preparation and detailed coordination between the seller, supplier, trading partners,...
Wake Up on Black Friday and Smell the Crypto Deals
25.11.2020
Thursday, November 26 is Thanksgiving in the United States, and right after it comes the Black Friday bonanza globally. On this day, retailers open wide and in great fashion the doors to Christmas shopping season, offering a myriad of '-X% offs' on pretty much any product in existence. And more...
DeFi Industry Ponders Strategy as Regulators Begin to Circle
24.11.2020
2020 hasn’t been good for much, but it has been very good for one thing: decentralized finance (DeFi). The sector has boomed this year. And while DeFi fads have been frequent, it appears that the wider DeFi sector has built up a head of steam, and will prove to be no more flash in the pan.
But...
John Lennon’s Son Says Bitcoin Brings Hope Amid 2020's 'Ocean of Destruction'
23.11.2020
Sean Ono Lennon. Source: A video screenshot, Youtybe/johnlennon
US musician and cryptocurrency enthusiast Sean Ono Lennon said that bitcoin (BTC)’s surge in 2020 has boosted his morale during a year that he described as otherwise “an ocean of destruction,” raising hopes for a new financial...
Major Exchanges Are Hiring: Here’s What the Data Is Saying
22.11.2020
Bitcoin (BTC), is back in a full-blown bull market, ethereum (ETH) and altcoins are rallying too, prompting a hiring spree at leading digital asset exchanges.
To gain further insight into what direction the crypto industry is heading, we will delve into some of the publicly available current...
What Would Negative Interest Rates Mean For Borrowers And Savers?
22.11.2020
Source: Adobe/UMB-O
Harry Scheule, Professor, Finance, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney.
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There’s a row brewing in the corridors of financial power. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) recently advised the trading banks that the official cash rate might move from...
Crypto Security in 2021: More Threats Against DeFi and Individual Users
21.11.2020
In 2020, the crypto industry was no stranger to cyber-attacks and cybersecurity breaches. Hackers made off with millions after hitting the KuCoin exchange in September, while a range of DeFi (decentralized finance) platforms — Balancer, Opyn, Akropolis, and others — also received more than their...