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Algorand Looks to Prove Why Algoracle Is Needed in the Contemporary Blockchain and Crypto Sector
14.4.2022
PRESS RELEASE. As the complexity of current dApps (decentralized applications) on Algorand grows, so must the infrastructure, notably oracles, to enable significantly higher and better feature sets. In the Algorand ecosystem, Algoracle’s opinions on off-chain computing are therefore worth...
Five-year Jail Term: Has Virgil Griffith Become Ethereum’s Ross Ulbricht?
13.4.2022
Locking up crypto developers who stray into murky legal waters may become a more everyday occurrence in the years to come....
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How NFT Finance Accelerates NFT Mass Adoption
10.4.2022
Stephen Young, Founder & CEO, NFTfi, an NFT collateralized loan marketplace.
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When Bitcoin Meets Inflation
8.4.2022
Alice Liu, Senior Associate, Cryptocurrency Investments at exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product sponsor WisdomTree.
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NFT Self Defense: Staying Safe in Web3
8.4.2022
John Ennis, Ecosystem Lead of Gnosis Safe, a multi-signature (multisig) wallet solution.
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From BAYC, Cryptopunks, Meebits, NFT collections are gaining mainstream attention from brands to celebrities to everyday individuals, but not all this attention has been positive. NFT hacks...
Walking the Crypto Tax Tightrope in US
1.4.2022
Co-Authored by Jaideep Singh, CEO of AI-powered, SaaS platform FlyFin, Luke Olson, CPA, and Sridevi Yathirajyam, EA, FlyFin.
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Ukraine War’s Surprising Links to the 2008 Financial Crisis – and the Parallels With 1939
27.3.2022
Ronen Palan, Professor of International Politics, City, University of London.___
The historical parallels are uncanny. A decade or so after the two most devastating financial crises in modern capitalism, in 1929 and in 2008, a terrible conflict begins in Europe that threatens to draw in...
The Prospects, Possibilities, and Dangers of CBDCs
25.3.2022
Suren Ayriyan is the Managing Partner and CEO at TEMPO Payments, a digital money transfer company.
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Today, 15 countries – including China, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa – are testing their own centralized digital currencies: Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Another...
‘Big Holes’ Undermine Russia Sanctions – And It's Not Crypto (Psst! It's Traditional Politics & Finance)
24.3.2022
An opinion columnist writing for Bloomberg has identified two flaws that “fundamentally undermine” the United States and EU-led “sanctions regime” against Russia – and neither have anything to do with the use of crypto.
Since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, senior lawmakers in the USA...
Bitcoin Inches Higher as Terra Starts Implementing Its USD 10B BTC Plan
24.3.2022
Following Terra’s announcement in February that it would partly back its stablecoin UST with bitcoin (BTC), the market has been waiting for clues that Terra is in fact following up on its promise and buying BTC.
An indication that the stablecoin protocol is following through with its plan came...
How War in Ukraine Is Increasing Inflationary Pressure Across World’s Regions
20.3.2022
Alfred Kammer is the Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Jihad Azour is the Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the IMF; Abebe Aemro Selassie is the Director of the African Department at the IMF; Ilan Goldfajn was Governor of...
How To Design Blockchain Games Ethically
19.3.2022
Gregor Žavcer, Executive Director at Swarm, an Ethereum-powered decentralized storage and communication system.__________...
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Another Putin’s Mistake of the Ukraine War - Trusting the Western Financial System
13.3.2022
Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
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The West is arraying financial weapons never deployed before against a country of Russia’s size, forsaking some of the principles that have defined it....
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Ukraine War and the Financial Markets: the Winners and Losers So Far
11.3.2022
Gabriella Legrenzi, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Keele University; Reinhold Heinlein, Senior Lecturer in Economics, the University of the West of England, and Scott Mahadeo, Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomics, the University of Portsmouth.______ ...
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Is Russia Really About to Cut Itself Off from the Internet?
11.3.2022
Mohiuddin Ahmed, Lecturer of Computing & Security, Edith Cowan University, Paul Haskell-Dowland, Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University.
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The invasion of Ukraine has triggered a significant digital shift for Russia. Sanctions imposed by governments around the world...
Could the Ukraine Invasion Spark a Global Financial Crisis?
5.3.2022
Nasir Aminu, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance, Cardiff Metropolitan University. ____
The Russian assault on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities has intensified uncertainty in the world economy. To condemn Putin’s war, western leaders announced some restrictive economic measures to target...
How to Responsibly Donate to Ukrainian Causes
4.3.2022
Beth Gazley, Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, O'Neill School, Indiana University._____
When Russia invaded Ukraine, I responded like many Americans: by making charitable donations.
I was able to make my gift with confidence because I’m a scholar of nonprofits who has studied...
Utility Is the Future of NFTs
4.3.2022
Ben Arnon is the co-founder and co-CEO at the Curio NFT platform.
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Ukraine War: How Russian Aggression Could Derail the Fragile World Economy
26.2.2022
Steve Schifferes, Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre; Professor of Financial Journalism, City, University of London._____
The invasion of Ukraine comes at a delicate time for the world economy, which was just beginning to recover from the ravages of COVID. Russia’s...
Ukraine Invasion: What the West Needs to Do Now
24.2.2022
Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham.
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