Gavin Brown is the Associate Professor in Financial Technology ant the University of Liverpool. The sale and promotion of derivatives of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to amateur investors is being banned in the UK by the financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It is a further blow to the burgeoning cryptocurrency market, coming soon…
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Speech by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), at the ECB Conference "A new horizon for pan-European payments and digital euro." Frankfurt am Main, 22 October 2020. ______ Key points: An uncontrolled change in the payments landscape is dangerous.Three trends are shaping the payments landscape: the role of…
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Ananish Chaudhuri is the Professor of Behavioural and Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland. ___ With the government borrowing heavily to fund its pandemic response and recovery, it has been suggested it could simply cancel its debt by printing more money. That sounds like an attractive idea, but it is one that would have…
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Eric Meltzer is the Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures, a cryptoasset fund. ____ "Ethereum (ETH) can do everything that Bitcoin (BTC) can do, plus a lot more." I hear this often from people who are very new to crypto, and figured it would maybe be useful to make a list of the things that make…
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Jay Hao. Jay Hao is the CEO of crypto exchange OKEx. _____ Bitcoin (BTC) is a frequently discussed topic and Blockchain Center recently released some data that allows us to have a broader view of BTC from the perspective of its distribution. Breaking it down, the data shows that the current distribution of BTC is…
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Lane Retting is the core team member at the Spacemesh cryptocurrency project and a former Ethereum core developer. __________ Ethereum (ETH) is rapidly becoming a decentralized finance (DeFi) network, and DeFi feels quite similar to traditional finance in important ways. What does this mean for the network, the community, and the future of Ethereum? The…
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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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Source: Adobe/andy_gin 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. _____ In terms of price action, things have actually been rather dull in the crypto space, with most assets trading in narrow…
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Chris Vasantkumar, Lecturer in Anthropology, Macquarie University. ____ “No Cash Accepted” signs are increasingly common in Australian shops, thanks to COVID-19. Even before the pandemic struck, though, we were well along the cashless path, with demand for coins halving between 2013 and 2019. For the most part Australians have taken cashless payments in their Read…
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Mark Crosby, Associate Professor, Director of Bachelor of International Business Program at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Over the past 16 months journalists have been scouring through more than 2,000 Suspicious Activity Reports originally sent by banks to the United States Treasury, before being leaked to Buzzfeed and then passed along to the Read more…
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