Simon Seojoon Kim is the CEO and Managing Partner at South Korea-based blockchain accelerator Hashed. ____ I. Bitcoin A solid and continuous Bitcoin (BTC) bull run is expected in 2021. Since the inception of Bitcoin, the amount of BTC owned by the exchanges has steadily increased. However, starting from February 2020, institutional investors have started…
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Alina Iancu, Neil Meads, and Yiqun Wu work at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, while Martin Mühleisen is the former director of this department. _____ The currencies that are being held by central banks as foreign exchange reserves have remained largely steady over decades. Changes in the composition of these…
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Eric Wall is a part of the Arcane Research team and works as Chief Investment Officer. ______ Market research 101 The wheel is in motion and cannot be stopped. What we’ve witnessed during the last few months is just how amenable high-profile investors appear to be to the bitcoin (BTC) pitch. An analogy I keep…
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Iwa Salami, Senior Lecturer in Financial Law and Regulation, University of East London. As stock markets around the world struggle through the pandemic, bitcoin (BTC) has seen a steady rise in its price. In December, the cryptocurrency surpassed its all-time high of USD 20,000 and hit USD 24,000 just this weekend. While this growth can…
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Source: Adobe/bruno135_406 Spencer M. Ross, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Massachusetts Lowell. Sommer Kapitan, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology. _______ Collectors for the Paralympic Games carried donation buckets ahead of the recent Santa parade in Auckland, asking for gold coin donations. Onlookers shrugged them off: “Sorry, no cash on Read more…
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Ramya Vijaya, Professor of Economics, Stockton University. _____ To stem the economic fallout from COVID-19, developed countries have injected an unprecedented USD 9 trillion into their economies. The International Monetary Fund has recommended sustained fiscal support, emphasizing greater spending on health care and environmental protection projects. Meanwhile, Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit…
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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 (DLT) and has been a lead crypto-tech analyst for Weiss Cryptocurrency…
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Hester Peirce. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Blockland Solutions This is a speech by Hester M. Peirce, pro-crypto commissionaire at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), given to the Federalist Society on December 10, 2020. __________________ Thank you, Dean [Reuter]. I have to start with my standard disclaimer, which is that my views represent…
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Davide Malacrino is an Economist in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ______ Wealth begets wealth. This simple concept of privilege has added to growing discontent with inequality that has escalated under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. A paper co-authored this year by economists from the IMF and other institutions confirms…
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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 (DLT) and has been a lead crypto-tech analyst for Weiss Cryptocurrency…
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