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IPOs, M&As, and New Token Sales To Bring Fresh Capital For Crypto in 2021
6.2.2021
Few commentators have remarked on one big difference between the 2020 and 2017 bull markets: the fact that record bitcoin (BTC) prices weren’t complemented by a wave of high-profile initial coin offerings (ICOs). Unlike 2017, there were few notable ICOs that took advantage of heightened interest...
Pumping, Dumping, Rallying, Jumping and 20 Crypto Jokes
6.2.2021
This eventful week in crypto, ethereum reached a new all-time high, insiders shared a number of bullish signs for BTC, dogecoin dumped, then pumped again, tron dumped, then XRP doubled and dumped, while Ripple gave its preliminary legal response to the SEC and SBI’s crypto exchange started offering...
GameStop: I'm A WallStreetBets 'Degenerate' & It's Just Getting Started
5.2.2021
Mohammad Rajjaque, Program Director, Accounting and Financial Management Division, University of Sheffield.
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I joined the WallStreetBets forum on Reddit almost two years ago. But I was far from the image of the typical “bored, young Reddit trader” that has been portrayed in the media lately....
Can't Beat Crypto Regulators? Educate Them
5.2.2021
Crypto industry players urge each other to focus more on educating regulators to avoid overregulation and help authorities to foster financial innovation.
According to Dave Hodgson, Chief Investment Officer at NEM Group and Managing Director at NEM Ventures, “one primary obstacle that we are facing...
GameStop and Dogecoin Show How Memes Can Move Markets
4.2.2021
Source: Twitter/@elonmusk
Jason Potts, Professor of Economics, RMIT University, Chris Berg, Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University.
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One of the most difficult problems in finance right now is figuring out the fundamental economic value...
FTX Boss Bankman-Fried Says He Is Worth a ‘Mostly Illiquid’ USD 10B
4.2.2021
Sam Bankman-Fried. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/FTX Official
One of President Joe Biden’s biggest campaign backers in the 2020 presidential election has been grabbing the limelight in the mainstream media – as Sam Bankman-Fried (28), the CEO of the crypto derivatives platform FTX, continues...
Check These 4 Make-Your-Own-NFT Platforms
3.2.2021
Who's The Controller Now? by Hidden Forces. Last sold for USD 3,059.05. In the last two years, the non-fungible token (NFT) space has grown significantly, creating an entirely new asset class called crypto collectibles. Today, the NFT market is attracting established and would-be artists who want...
A Reddit Army Blurs The Line Between Crypto and Traditional Finance
1.2.2021
Philip Gradwell is Chief Economist at Chainalysis. He provides data and insight on the uses of cryptocurrencies and the direction of the market at markets.chainalysis.com.
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What does the phenomenon of retail traders coordinating on the internet to turn finance on its head have to do with...
The Economics of the Poet Ezra Pound: What Is Money For?
31.1.2021
Ezra Pound in 1920. The American poet Ezra Pound was never short of things to say, especially with regard to economics. While his literary contributions are unmatched, his economic ideas were largely discarded by his contemporaries, especially as he began to lean towards fascism in the latter part...
Global Uncertainty Drops But Is Still 50% Above Historical Average
31.1.2021
Hites Ahir is a senior research officer in the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Research Department. Nicholas (Nick) Bloom is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and a Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic...
Non-Fungible 2021: Prepare Your NFTs For DeFi, Staking, and Sharing
30.1.2021
An NFT created by an artist known as beeple and sold for ETH 67.331 (USD 90,224 today) in December 2020 on Nifty Gateway. Cryptocurrencies are — or at least aim to be — money. This not only means that they need to function as stores of value, media of exchange, and units of account, but that they...
Battling Wall Street, Sheriff of Nottingham, High Doge and 20 Crypto Jokes
30.1.2021
What a crazy week! And vastly entertaining! As the Wallstreetbets story intensified, pushing the price of GME up, the market got a new entrant, a a ‘wrapped’ GameStop token, and then DOGE soared right into top 10! Then Robinhood halted buying of the first and trading of the second, saying they...
GameStop: How Redditors Played Funds For Billions (And What Might Come Next)
29.1.2021
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James Doran, Associate professor/Deputy head of school, UNSW.
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How does a small retail company that sells video games, worth less than USD 400 million in the middle of 2020, become a USD 10 billion company in less than six months? How does its share price climb from about USD 20...
Mark Cuban May Be More Involved with Crypto, 'Shitcoins' than First Thought
28.1.2021
Mark Cuban. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, TMZSports
Crypto sleuths have taken a peek into the ethereum (ETH) wallet of the outspoken American billionaire Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball franchise. And it turns out that Cuban owns a lot more altcoins and what he...
Financial Professions Must Pivot to Stave Off Technological Extinction
27.1.2021
Erica Pimentel, PhD Candidate in Accounting, Concordia Public Scholar, Concordia University.
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Blockchain technology threatens to upend the financial sector. While this presents an opportunity to reduce costs for businesses and consumers alike, it may also make some professions, like accounting...
2021 Could Be Like 2017 — When Bitcoin Blasted Up More Than 21-Fold
25.1.2021
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...
Stablecoins May 'Penetrate Non-Crypto Markets' & Surpass USD 100B in 2021
24.1.2021
2021 could be the year when stablecoins move deeper inside the non-crypto markets, with some expecting the total value of stablecoins almost tripling and surpassing USD 100bn this year, according to industry figures.
Market capitalization of stablecoins already jumped by around sixfold in the past...
Davos 2021 & A ‘Great Reset’: We Can't Count On the Same Old Globalists
24.1.2021
WEF founder Klaus Schwab addressing the press conference ahead of Davos 2021. ___
Jonathan Michie, Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford.
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The 51st World Economic Forum starts on January 25, but with a major difference. Whereas this is famously the annual...
Regulators Ponder Strategy As Bitcoin & Co Are Too Large to Ignore
23.1.2021
Source: Adobe/Jon Le-Bon
The writing is on the wall: regulation is coming for crypto. While a small handful of nations have already introduced specific cryptoasset legislation over the past few years, it looks as though the world’s major powers are gearing up to introduce substantial...
Green Markets, Red Markets, Meh Markets and 20 Crypto Jokes
23.1.2021
This was quite a week for ethereum which reached its ATH territory in USD, though it remained far from its ATH against BTC. But some mining pools banded together to try and stop the EIP 1559. Meanwhile, as the bitcoin snowball is expected to hit more institutions in 2021, JP Morgan strategists told...