Jay Hao. Jay Hao is the CEO of crypto exchange OKEx. __________ When I woke up this morning, I received many messages from my friends, who told me, "Stocks have skyrocketed. Can we short bitcoin (BTC)?" Then I opened my Bloomberg and saw the following chart. The Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index has reached its…
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. The sculpture’s roughly 60-ft.-high granite faces depict US presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies Read more »Pay, Trade,…
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The Australian government is planning to spend AUD 190 billion (USD 132 billion) to support the economy in response to COVID-19, according to the latest Parliamentary Budget Office estimate. The total impact of COVID-19 on the government’s net debt, including both revenue impacts (down, because of less activity) and spending impacts (up because of spending…
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On June 18, ETC Group and HANetf announced the listing of a new exchange-traded bitcoin investment vehicle – named Bitcoin Exchange Traded Crypto (BTCE) – on the Germany-based Xetra exchange. But what exactly is BTCE? And what potential impact could this new exchange-traded product have on the wider crypto market? What Is BTCE? In essence,…
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Bitcoin (BTC) sentiment analysis tools can be powerful. Used correctly, they can allow traders and investors to gauge whether crypto markets (and their participants) are feeling bullish or bearish. So, with some claiming that the market is now hovering between bear and bull status, perhaps there is no better time than right now to look…
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There are scores of ways you can trade and invest in cryptocurrencies. Sure, you can buy and HODL or frantically day-trade to catch the day’s highs and lows. But how about going beyond all that? How about using the techniques traders in other markets apply when they invest? It’s time to learn a little more…
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The world has failed to halt global warming. Four years after the signing of the Paris Agreement, most experts predict global warming will exceed the agreed thresholds, with disastrous consequences. As much as the world faces a climate crisis, it also faces a climate governance crisis: we know what must be done to halt climate…
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A protest at the Los Angeles City Hall in June. Source: Twitter, @callmethebear In 2014, several surveys found that African Americans were less likely to know about and use Bitcoin (BTC). However, in 2020, a Coinbase study found that African Americans are now much more interested in and trustful of bitcoin and other decentralized digital…
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Greg Medcraft. Greg Medcraft is the Director of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). ______ The past twelve months have served to illustrate the rate at which blockchain and other distributed ledgers technologies (DLTs) are maturing and integrating into mainstream financial Read more »Pay, Trade,…
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Brian Wong is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the BTSE exchange. _______ This week, we saw bitcoin’s dramatic rise to USD 10,000, followed by a quick drop which happened far too suddenly to be considered natural. The crypto market is seeing an increased number of quantitative algorithms these days, many of which are…
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