Angel Zhong, Senior Lecturer in Finance, RMIT University. _____ 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 confidently tackle. Her posts and videos have gained…
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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 sidechain and the Lightning Network, are often referred…
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Shamel Azmeh, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. ____ 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 areas. Ideas such as telemigration in which people from different parts of the Read more »Pay, Trade,…
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Justin Banon is the CEO and Co-Founder of Boson Protocol, a dCommerce ecosystem using non-fungible tokens (NFTs) encoded with game theory. __________ 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 point. The premise seemed simple: connect…
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Richard S. Warr, Professor of Finance, North Carolina State University. _______ 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 and send prices soaring. On May 12, 2021, the worrywarts seemed to have their…
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Daniel Broby, Director, Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation, University of Strathclyde. _____ 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 given CNY 55 (USD 8.5) of free money in digital wallets…
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Luis Martim Aureliano is an independent financial crypto analyst, consultant. ____ 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. While the debate rages on, the expansion of the Bitcoin monetary ecosystem to Read more…
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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 proliferate around Crypto Twitter and other…
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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 Research. ______ Many countries are…
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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. ____ The share of US dollar reserves held by central banks fell to 59%—its lowest level in 25 years—during the fourth quarter of 2020, according to…
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