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Can CBDC Help Recover From Coronavirus Recession And Lead To Bitcoin?
29.3.2020
Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in front of the Bank of England. There is a general consensus that the global economy is heading for a sharp recession. The economic output will contract, but there are, at least, certain innovations that can be implemented to mitigate...
Diversification - The Only Free Lunch For Crypto Investor
29.3.2020
Henry K. Elder is the Director Investment Strategies at Wave Financial, a Los Angeles and London based investment management company that provides institutional digital asset fund products. Ryan Anderson, Associate, Wave Financial.
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As both traditional and alternative asset markets descend...
Stablecoins Will Have to Adapt to Survive Coronavirus Recession
28.3.2020
Stablecoins are facing new challenges. With USD interest rates hitting 0% and US Treasury yields turning negative, it's becoming increasingly hard to earn a profit simply by holding USD in reserve or by purchasing US Treasury bills.
While some stablecoins operate using alternative business models...
Reversed Loses, Settled Lawsuits, Pickled Gold and 20 Crypto Jokes
28.3.2020
Let's see what this past week served on our crypto table. Bitcoin and major altcoins reversed losses Monday, after the Fed announced unprecedented measures to support the economy, while Coronavirus put gold in a peculiar pickle. As BTC mining difficulty saw a historic drop, a new Cardano scaling...
7 Solutions that Could Help You Self-Isolate During the COVID-19 Pandemic
27.3.2020
Over 500,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus have already been diagnosed across the globe, and that figure just keeps rising sharply by the day.
As a result, many governments across the globe have taken drastic measures – such as imposing quarantines and lockdowns, closing borders and shutting...
Are Miners Waiting for Bitcoin to Hit Breakeven Point?
27.3.2020
Johnson Xu is the Chief Analyst at TokenInsight, a token data and rating agency.
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The sharp market downturn in mid-March 2020 forced some Bitcoin (BTC) miners to switch off their mining rigs. As a result, the Bitcoin network hash rate plummeted to ~75.8 EH/s. After reaching its lowest recent...
Tezos, ConsenSys, Blockstack, and Others Share Their COVID-19 Stories
27.3.2020
A colorized image of cells from a patient infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The virus particles are colored pink. The image was captured from a scanning electron micrograph. In the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic, we asked several crypto/blockchain startups how they are operating...
Why This May Be The Time For Bitcoin To Shine
26.3.2020
Gary McFarlane is a cryptocurrency analyst at interactive investor, a UK-based investment platform.
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With central bank money-printing machines switched back on, might bitcoin be the star of the recession?
Crypto – it’s still all about COVID-19 for now
Whether the bounce in both bitcoin...
How Working From Home May Be Exposing Us To Cybercrime
25.3.2020
Apart from the obvious health and economic impacts, the coronavirus also presents a major opportunity for cybercriminals.
As staff across sectors and university students shift to working and studying from home, large organisations are at increased risk of being targeted. With defences down...
Stress-tested Crypto Companies Focus on New Products and Growth
24.3.2020
It seems that the notorious market crash on March 12-13 has affected every crypto company. But how?
A few industry players shared their own experiences and plans.
"The market crash is definitely an important stress-test for both Ethereum and the decentralized financial products launched...
Is Bitcoin Becoming an Alternative For Wall Street Investors?
24.3.2020
Following the last few weeks carnage in the financial markets, bitcoin (BTC) may be starting to look like a viable alternative for some of the capital that is leaving Wall Street.
A “decoupling” of bitcoin prices from the broader financial system is something many community members have called...
Coronavirus: How Blockchain, AI, And 3D Printing Can Help Solve Supply Crisis
22.3.2020
What seemed like science fiction a few short weeks ago is now very real. Movies such as Outbreak, Contagion and Virus are looking more like documentaries every day. As we battle COVID-19, a major issue that will only increase is disruption to supply chains.
This disruption has been as devastating...
What Is Bitcoin Dust – and How Can You Clean it?
22.3.2020
Spring is in the air for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means it is time to get started with some spring cleaning – especially for those of us with crypto holdings.
If you trade cryptocurrency on a relatively frequent basis, you will probably have tiny sums in exchange wallets...
VR and Crypto - a Match Made In Reality
21.3.2020
Cryptocurrency is also known as virtual currency. And funnily enough, "virtual" is becoming an increasingly apt word to use in the context of cryptocurrency, which is showing a newfound fondness for virtual reality.
More and more cryptocurrency events and meetings are being hosted in...
Devastation, Mitigation, Migration, Stabilization and 20 Crypto Jokes
21.3.2020
Another adventurous crypto week. Did you have fun? BTC once again saw heavy selling on Monday, after the news that the Fed was taking emergency measures to mitigate the financial devastation, Coin Metrics found that it's the short-term traders again who have been driving the most recent sell-off...
Why Is South Korea’s Coronavirus Fatality Rate so Low?
18.3.2020
With the coronavirus pandemic raging – bringing illness, death, and unprecedented economic decline in its wake, the pressure is on scientists, doctors and statisticians to pick key patterns out of the flood of coronavirus-related data.
In fact, rewind a few weeks and you may recall that South Korea...
How Will Bitcoin Halving Affect Its Security?
15.3.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) is the most secure cryptocurrency with the most secure blockchain, remind the legions of Bitcoiners who argue that the cryptocurrency's increasing hashrate is enough to ensure that it never succumbs to a 51% attack.
However, skeptics argue that Bitcoin's halving block rewards put this...
The Race Is On To Become the World's Digital Reserve Currency. Who Will Win?
15.3.2020
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Keld van Schreven is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1 plc, the London listed cryptocurrency and blockchain investment company.
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Central Banks are excited by Bitcoin's dramatic innovation, its blockchain technology and the potential for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)....
Attempts to Increase Bitcoin's Supply Would End Up With Another "Bitcoin"
14.3.2020
A famous painting by a Belgian Surrealist artist, René Magritte. It says: This is not a pipe.
Bitcoin's supply cap is one of its biggest selling points. Limiting the network to almost 21 million BTC, the cap makes Bitcoin a ‘deflationary’ currency.
Naturally, people have been questioning whether...
Crash! Boom! Bang! and 20 Crypto Jokes
14.3.2020
What an eventful, volatile week this has been. After Bitcoin mining difficulty and hashrate hit new highs, Bitcoin dropped suddenly to January lows, with altcoins suffering major losses, and then it crashed to USD 5,000 levels, and crypto exchanges had to make emergency moves to deal with...