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Maduro Orders Venezuelan Bank Closures Amid Coronavirus Scare

19.3.2020
In order to combat the coronavirus outbreak in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the entire country to quarantine themselves. With an inflation rate that rises more than 10,000% per year, the country’s citizens have already been dealing with economic turmoil. Maduro...

Bitcoin Difficulty Set for 13% Drop as Hash Rate Following BTC Price

19.3.2020
Bitcoin’s difficulty and hash rate are beginning to suffer from its price declines, data warns

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...

Fed Rate Cut: CZ Holds a Different Perspective

18.3.2020
The Covid-19 outbreak has affected the communities all over the world and has affected the worldwide economic activity. The financial conditions have been affected globally. As per the present economic data, the US economy is facing a challenging period. According to the official Press Release...

Analysts Question Gold’s Safe Haven Status – 2008 Data Shows Central Banks Oversaturated Bullion Markets

17.3.2020
After bitcoin prices dropped below the $5K region on Monday morning, gold also slid significantly. It saw a small spike in value after the Federal Reserve announced slashing the benchmark rate by 100 bps, but gold prices subsequently dropped below $1,500 per ounce hours later. The current sentiment...

Bitcoin Reacts to Fed’s 0% Rate Drop, Reserve Requirements Removed, $700B in Stimulus

16.3.2020
On Sunday, the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed the benchmark short-term rate by 100 basis points bringing it to zero. In addition to the rate cut, the Fed promised $700 billion in bond purchases and eliminated all reserve requirements for smaller financial institutions. However, the Fed’s rate...

QE4 Begins: Fed Cuts Rates, Buys $700B in Bonds; Bitcoin Rallies 7.7%

15.3.2020
Effectively, this is “QE4,” the fourth major round of quantitative easing by the American central bank since the global financial crisis a little more than a decade ago

Gold and Bitcoin Markets Tested, While Central Banks Try to Quell Stock Market Rout

13.3.2020
Central banks worldwide have been bracing for the worst, as the global economy has shuddered over the last seven days. On March 11, the Bank of England slashed rates by 50 bps bringing the base rate down to 0.25%. Meanwhile, Wall Street bankers and U.S. President Donald Trump want the Federal...

Classics Against Innovations: Can Venture Success Rate Be Outraced by Crypto?

9.3.2020
ICO, STO, IEO, IDO, … , and other difficulties of contemporary investment models, but is VC still relevant and works as it did?

Stimulus, QE, Rate Cuts: Coronavirus Fuels Central Banks’ Monetary Easing Policy

8.3.2020
The world has been focused on the coronavirus outbreak that’s claimed 105,612 cases and 3,562 deaths to date. The pandemic has caused government leaders to react and central banks are breaking out tools from their arsenal of monetary easing schemes. The world’s central banks say...

Hash Rate and Bitcoin Price During Mining Events: Are They Related?

7.3.2020
The correlation between Bitcoin’s hash rate and price action provide useful insight into the upcoming 2020 halving event

Riot Reports 147% Monthly Growth In Average Daily Run Rate of BTC Mined

5.3.2020
In February, Riot Blockchain saw a remarkable increase in average daily run rate of BTC mined compared to last December

Bitcoin Hash Rate Passes Record 150 Quintillion as Price Reclaims $9K

5.3.2020
Bitcoin price is the least of miners’ worries as hash rate gets a record boost this week

Coronavirus Rate Cuts: Australia’s Central Bank Did It First

4.3.2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia announced it would be cutting the cash rate by 25 basis points to 0.50 percent, its lowest on record according to recent figures

Coronavirus Prompts Fed to Slash Interest Rate – Stocks Slide, Gold Spikes, Bitcoin Uncertainty

4.3.2020
The U.S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by 50 bps on Tuesday citing concerns about the coronavirus outbreak against the bleak economy. The last time the central bank slashed rates by leveraging an “emergency rate shift” by half a percentage point was after Lehman Brothers filed...