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FinTok & 'Finfluencers' Are On The Rise: 3 Tips To Assess Their Advice
25.5.2021
Angel Zhong, Senior Lecturer in Finance, RMIT University.
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Queenie Tan is full of financial advice. Whether it is cheap date ideas, buying furniture, saving your first USD 100,000, doing your tax return or investing in Dogecoin, there is seemingly no topic the 24-year-old Sydney woman can’t...
RSK is Bitcoin’s Fastest Growing Layer, Not Liquid nor Lightning
23.5.2021
Since the resolution of the Bitcoin (BTC) block size limit debate in 2017, there has been a general consensus that Bitcoin is likely to scale via a multi-layer protocol stack rather than stuffing every transaction onto the base blockchain.
These secondary network layers, such as the Liquid...
Navigating a New Digital Era Means Changing the World Economic Order
23.5.2021
Shamel Azmeh, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.
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COVID-19 has accelerated the growth in the digital economy through a dramatic increase in working from home, online shopping, digital entertainment, online services, among other...
What EIP 1559 Brings to the Ethereum Table
22.5.2021
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Ethereum (ETH) is changing. Not only is it undertaking the gradual process of transitioning to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, but it’s only a couple of months away from significantly revamping its monetary system, via Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)...
Much Red, Very Down, Super Panic and 20 Crypto Jokes
22.5.2021
What a week! Even more so than weeks prior. As the Cryptoverse was hard at work debunking Elon Musk's BTC criticism, with many accusing him of market manipulation, markets turned super-red in a flash crash, for which insiders gave several reasons, and BTC nearly tested USD 30K. And while many...
What Role Could NFTs Play In E-Commerce?
21.5.2021
Justin Banon is the CEO and Co-Founder of Boson Protocol, a dCommerce ecosystem using non-fungible tokens (NFTs) encoded with game theory.
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At the advent of Web 2.0, the now ubiquitous e-commerce platforms were presented and sold as a fairer alternative to how business was done up to that...
Green Investments Help Bitcoin Miners Amid Possible Regulatory Crackdown
20.5.2021
Regulators have been moving into multiple areas of the crypto industry, and they will – in one way or another – come after crypto mining powered by non-renewables, according to two miners that talked with Cryptonews.com.
However, as the concerns, facts, and misinformation over Bitcoin (BTC)’s...
Status Plans Payments With Keycard, Develops Crypto-Native Communities Feature
18.5.2021
Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/Satus
One of the top ICOs of 2017, Status (SNT), a crypto marketplace application and decentralized mobile and desktop client for Ethereum (ETH), is planing to enable crypto-to-crypto payments on its Keycard hardware wallet. Also, a tool for crypto-native...
Does Digital Yuan Threaten Global Stability?
16.5.2021
Daniel Broby, Director, Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation, University of Strathclyde.
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China is making promising progress with testing its digital yuan currency. It has announced the success of a pilot in Suzhou City, near Shanghai in eastern China, where 181,000 consumers were...
Why The Inflation Rate Doesn’t Tell The Whole Story
16.5.2021
Richard S. Warr, Professor of Finance, North Carolina State University.
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Markets, economists and policymakers have been fretting about inflation for months, worried that the trillions of dollars being spent in recent and future government stimulus programs could overheat the economy...
Imagine Bitcoin as a Reserve Asset. What Then?
15.5.2021
Governments have finally sat up and taken notice of crypto. For years they derided, criticized, and even banned cryptocurrencies, but now they’re rushing to get in on the act, with numerous central banks planning to roll out their own digital currencies in the coming months and years.
As for real...
Slumping, Pumping, Hitting, Hustling, Musking and 20 Crypto Jokes
15.5.2021
This week in the fun world of crypto, as people were arguing again whether it’s time to switch to sats from BTC, bitcoin mining difficulty hit a new ATH, but then after ETH broke USD 4K and bitcoin rallied past USD 59K, Tesla Elon Musk once again moved the whole crypto market and triggered a sharp...
Are Bitcoin Futures A Top "Risk-Free" Trade?
14.5.2021
Luis Martim Aureliano is an independent financial crypto analyst, consultant.
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With cryptocurrencies surpassing the USD 2trn market capitalization milestone, the upward price momentum has drawn a fair share of cheerleaders and detractors into the conversation surrounding Bitcoin (BTC)’s future....
Why Ethereum is Far From ‘Ultrasound Money’
9.5.2021
Memes are extremely important in the crypto market. Dogecoin (DOGE) may be the best recent illustration of the power of memes in a market powered by a combination of scarcity and user demand (note: some memes are more sustainable than others), but every cryptocurrency has their own memes that...
Our Future with High Public Debt
9.5.2021
Marcos Chamon is a Deputy Division Chief in the Debt Policy Division of the Strategy and Policy Review Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Jonathan D. Ostry is Deputy Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the IMF and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy...
Dogecoin Needs 3 Conditions Fulfilled to Move Beyond USD 1
8.5.2021
The rallying dogecoin (DOGE) could grow to be a “true” payment token, and to be widely accepted by retailers - but for its price to grow, three relevant conditions need to be met, according to El Lee, the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Singapore-headquartered Onchain Custodian...
Surpassing, Outperforming, Flipping and 20 Crypto Jokes
8.5.2021
After DOGE led April, we entered the month of May, and ethereum took over, surpassing the USD 3K level for the first time ever - making Vitalik a very rich boy. But DOGE wasn’t far behind, flipping BTC and ETH on google trends for a bit, but then ETC outperformed ETH, but if history repeats itself...
US Dollar Share of Global Foreign Exchange Reserves Drops to 25-Year Low
6.5.2021
Serkan Arslanalp is Deputy Division Chief in the Balance of Payments Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Statistics Department. Chima Simpson-Bell is an Economist in the same department.
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The share of US dollar reserves held by central banks fell to 59%—its lowest level in...
Epic Spent $1 Billion On PC Exclusives By 2019
4.5.2021
As the trawl through Epic’s court documents continues, another figure jumps out: $1 billion—the amount Epic had spent on securing exclusives by 2019.Read more
The Ethereum Economy is a House of Cards
4.5.2021
In terms of the growth of various adoption metrics, such as active addresses and daily value transferred, the Ethereum (ETH) network has been killing it over the past year or so. Various applications in the area of decentralized finance (DeFi) have been the main drivers behind this growth, as those...