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How Emerging Payment Methods Are Shaping Online Entertainment Platforms
28.10.2025
This article represents the personal views of Robin Burns; offering insights into how payment innovation is reshaping user behaviour and how entertainment platforms can adapt responsibly while maintaining trust, speed, and transparency in an evolving digital market. I’ve been following...
User Choice and Jurisdiction: How Regulation Shapes Platform Preferences
25.10.2025
This article represents the personal views of Robin Burns; offering insights into how regulation influences user behaviour, platform access, and why personal choice continues to shape how people engage with online services across borders. I’ve been watching how jurisdictional rules affect digital...
Finland’s Crypto Casino Boom: How Digital Assets Are Changing Online Gaming
24.10.2025
This article represents the personal views of Robin Burns; offering a perspective on how cryptocurrency is influencing the Finnish casino market and what players should know as digital assets continue to evolve. I’ve watched the rise of cryptocurrency transform not just finance, but also the way...
Dutch Gambling Rules Are Tightening (And Here’s What I Think Players Need to Know)
23.10.2025
This article represents the personal views of Robin Burns; offering insights into how players can adapt to changing rules and maintain control while enjoying online gaming responsibly. I’ve been following the changes in the Dutch gambling market closely, and I believe the landscape has transformed...
You Are Thinking About Crypto All Wrong
16.10.2025
As the global economy becomes more digital, the rails that move value are being rebuilt. Tokenization is not a fad – it is the quiet upgrade shaping the next internet. Crypto is misunderstood. For many, it is synonymous with speculation – a digital casino filled with meme coins, Bitcoin...
Latam Insights Encore: Brazil Embraces Crypto Even When Its Government Doesn’t
7.10.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. In this edition: we examine the astounding growth of crypto in Brazil and how adoption is outpacing the government. Latam Insights Encore: Brazil’s Crypto Adoption...
Latam Insights Encore: Venezuela Shows How A Stablecoin Strategy Can Drive a Country’s Economy
30.9.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. In this edition, we examine how USDT is overtaking dollar disbursements in Venezuela, and the irony of a sanctioned country leveraging a currency backed by the U.S. debt....
The End of Retail Banking as a Place to Store Your Money
29.9.2025
For generations, retail banks were seen as the safest place to keep money. Checking accounts offered convenience, savings accounts promised growth, and branches stood as symbols of security. That model worked in the past. Today, it no longer adds up. Leaving money in a retail bank has become one...
Latam Insights Encore: Bolivia Should Embrace Stablecoins Before Stablecoins Embrace It
24.9.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. In this edition, we examine the rising adoption process of stablecoins in Bolivia and how the government should embrace them for cross-border settlements. Latam Insights...
Wall Street vs. Silicon Valley: The Defining Battle for the Next Financial Era
23.9.2025
For more than a decade, while institutions, governments, and fintech giants have pursued scale, control, and revenue monopolisation, DeFi projects have championed open-source innovation and community-driven models. At its core, this has always been a competition for the same prize: customers....
Outfoxed by Algorithms? The Hidden Costs of AI in Trading for Everyday Investors
22.9.2025
(Note: This analysis focuses on individual retail traders. Institutional traders, with their vastly larger resources and sophisticated AI tools, are outside our scope.) AI Is Beating Retail Traders by a Wide Margin Let’s be honest: trading has never been easy for the everyday investor. Most of...
Latam Insights Encore: Schrödinger’s Bitcoin Purchases? El Salvador Should Issue Clarification
16.9.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. In this edition, we examine the mystery of El Salvador’s alleged bitcoin purchases and why the government is due to issue an official clarification. Latam Insights Encore:...
Latam Insights Encore: El Salvador Gold Purchase Sidesteps IMF Constraints to Acquire Sound Money
12.9.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. In this edition, we examine the significance of El Salvador’s latest gold purchase and how it aligns with bitcoin’s sound‑money ethos. Latam Insights Encore: El Salvador’s...
The Case for Including Bitcoin in Official Reserves—and Why It Won’t Become the Global Reserve Currency Anytime Soon
9.9.2025
Bitcoin has strengthened its place as a tactical asset for reserve managers and national governments alike in recent years, but contrary to some opinions, it is still a long way from becoming a suitable global reserve currency. Even as governments in the Philippines announce initial plans...
The Definitive Guide to Winning Web3 Hackathons
6.9.2025
The blockchain hackathon ecosystem saw explosive growth in 2024 and continues to expand massively in 2025. This year, well-known hackathons such as ETHDenver 2025, HeDERA Africa, and Unite DeFi 2025 (in collaboration with 1inch) pushed things even further, giving builders the chance to compete...
Crypto Scams in 2025: How to Spot Them and Protect Yourself
3.9.2025
Crypto scams continue to claim billions in losses — and today’s attacks are more targeted than ever. In 2024 alone, Americans lost more than $4 billion to crypto fraud, according to the FTC. But these scams don’t break into wallets; they convince people to hand over access themselves. A hardware...
Latam Insights Encore: Venezuela Shows the Power of Stablecoins
2.9.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. In this edition, we examine how stablecoins have become a tool for preserving value in Venezuela, facing increasingly high inflation and devaluation indices. Latam Insights...
Trump’s Central Bank Theatrics Expose the Fed’s Myth of Independence
31.8.2025
There’s plenty of uproar surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent pressure on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his contested dismissal of Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, raising questions about just how independent the Fed really is. Yet history makes it clear that White...
Latam Insights Encore: Central Bank of Brazil Fumbles on Bitcoin Reserve Matters
27.8.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. In this edition, we examine the failed stance of the Central Bank of Brazil on bitcoin and how it might prevent Brazil from pioneering a BTC reserve in Latam. Latam Insights...
Crypto PR in 2025: From Trust to Media Partnerships
22.8.2025
As the crypto market evolves, communication challenges grow sharper. In 2022, the industry was still recovering from the collapse of Terra and FTX, the market sank into a bear cycle, and companies’ main task was survival and preserving community trust. By 2025, the reality has shifted: Bitcoin...