Promises of unlimited money-printing lead the world’s largest crypto asset manager to sound the alarm to investors, promoting Bitcoin as a solution. Bitcoin (BTC) is now investors’ best bet against central bank money printing, a new report from asset manager Grayscale concludes. In the document, titled “Quantitative Tightening,” the world’s largest digital currency asset manager […]
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Bitcoin might not be the most stable asset out there, but it is more stable than some economies. The demand for cryptocurrency in certain countries is growing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Bitcoin (BTC) peer-to-peer trading volume in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Morocco has peaked over the past few weeks, marking new all-time highs. Additional reports […]
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CoinMarketCap’s traffic decrease from China coincided with similar action on leading Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges. CoinMarketCap, which recently became a Binance company, released a report on Q1 crypto market performance, as seen from its perspective. One of the more interesting details is the significant decrease in users from China. As revealed by the report, published on […]
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YouTube’s algorithm may be to blame for the platform recently deleting crypto-related content, but content creators are left to speculate. On March 16, YouTube released a statement warning its creator community that video removals may increase during the coronavirus pandemic. The popular video-sharing platform said that its system currently relies on a combination of people […]
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The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, faced a series DDoS attacks on its Chinese domains on April 29. The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has faced a series of distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks on its Chinese domains earlier today. Binance CEO and founder, Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, tweeted about the attacks on […]
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Wall Street veteran and the force behind Wyoming’s forthcoming ‘crypto bank’ Avanti, Caitlin Long, has urged crypto industry leaders to bolster transparency. Wall Street veteran and blockchain pioneer Caitlin Long delivered a presentation during Virtual Blockchain Week urging the crypto sector to be wary of the large number of IOUs underpinning stablecoins and third-party custodied […]
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In a recent panel, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce AKA CryptoMom opened up about the prospect of a digital dollar as well as the end of her term, coming in June. A noted crypto defender at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has spoken to the end of her term scheduled for June, as well […]
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The European Central Bank is looking to renovate its payments infrastructure, studying both public and private solutions, with or without blockchain. A blog post from the European Central Bank (ECB) discusses the importance of resilient payment mechanisms. While the report focuses on legacy systems, it also mentions novel blockchain-based technologies like the digital euro. Published […]
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Digital signatures, electronic identification and electronic signatures: Could Europe’s experience with their regulation help Australia (and not only)? Europe has been running a legislative framework for electronic signatures and digital identities since 1999. In 2014, the European Parliament introduced a significant upgrade by presenting electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal […]
Continue ReadingThe founder of Quantum Economics sees Bitcoin and the S&P 500 more closely correlated than ever as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Crypto analyst Mati Greenspan won the title of “father of the year” from the two hosts of Virtual Blockchain Week as he tended to his child while delivering a presentation to the […]
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