João Marinotti, Associate Professor of Law, the Indiana University.______ In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about USD 4m. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse platform called The Sandbox. By buying 792 non-fungible tokens on…
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Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department. __________ While no systemic event has materialized, the balance of risks has tilted more firmly to the downside…. Read More: Financial Stability Risks Grow as War in Europe Complicates Push to Contain Inflation Read more…
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Jacqueline Best, Professor, School of Political Studies, the University of Ottawa.__________ With the Bank of Canada announcing an oversized interest rate hike this week, it might seem like central banks are coming to rescue us from inflation once again. Yet while they did play an important role in mitigating a COVID-induced recession, central banks…
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Matthew Shillito, Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. ______ In a busy start to April 2022 for the British chancellor, Rishi Sunak announced his intention to make the UK a “global hub for cryptoassets technology”. Put simply, this means he wants the country to be an attractive place for cryptocurrency companies to operate….…
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Joe Jowett is the CEO of StrikeX, a blockchain technology company._____ 2021 was the year of the retail trader. From high-flying meme stocks and cryptocurrencies to well-performing tech stocks, millions of new traders showed their power in a market revolutionized by online trading. … Read More: Stock & Crypto Traders Are Changing – It’s Time…
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Locking up crypto developers who stray into murky legal waters may become a more everyday occurrence in the years to come…. Read More: Five-year Jail Term: Has Virgil Griffith Become Ethereum’s Ross Ulbricht? Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
Stephen Young, Founder & CEO, NFTfi, an NFT collateralized loan marketplace. __________… Read More: How NFT Finance Accelerates NFT Mass Adoption Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
Alice Liu, Senior Associate, Cryptocurrency Investments at exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product sponsor WisdomTree. __________… Read More: When Bitcoin Meets Inflation Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
John Ennis, Ecosystem Lead of Gnosis Safe, a multi-signature (multisig) wallet solution. ______ From BAYC, Cryptopunks, Meebits, NFT collections are gaining mainstream attention from brands to celebrities to everyday individuals, but not all this attention has been positive. NFT hacks, phishing scams, and YOLO signed rug pulls are plaguing the metaverse. The OpenSea phishing…
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Co-Authored by Jaideep Singh, CEO of AI-powered, SaaS platform FlyFin, Luke Olson, CPA, and Sridevi Yathirajyam, EA, FlyFin. __________… Read More: Walking the Crypto Tax Tightrope in US Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
