Martin D. Weiss, the founder of Weiss Ratings; Juan Villaverde leads the Weiss Ratings team that created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. _____ If you visit crypto websites or ask casual observers, you might come away thinking there are thousands of “cryptocurrencies” in the world. Big mistake! Yes, they’re all digital assets. And yes, they look similar…
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Gaining currency? Wit Olszewski Gavin Brown, Senior Lecturer, Finance, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Richard Whittle, Research Fellow in Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University ________ Many cryptocurrencies have been launched in the past few years, often to great fanfare and celebration, only to fade and fail as the public and Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
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. _____ Many people argue that cryptocurrencies will never be accepted as a valid form of money because governments can just pass laws to outlaw…
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Poring Studio / Shutterstock.com Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency has suffered a few setbacks recently. As well as facing pressure from global regulators, seven of its 28 founding members have left the project – including high profile firms PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, eBay and Stripe. It leaves 21 companies in the Libra Association, the organisation Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy…
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Michael Soussan is Marketing & Communication Manager at Blox, a crypto asset tracking, management and bookkeeping platform. ______ Blockchain and cryptocurrency technology has rapidly expanded its global presence, creating conflict and excitement within the financial and technology industries. This rapid growth of investors, new coins, stablecoins, Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
George McDonaugh is Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1 plc, the London listed cryptocurrency and blockchain investment company. ____________ Jeremy Bentham, an 18th century Philosopher and social theorist envisaged a building designed to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single security guard. It was called a Panopticon and in today’s…
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Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Alethea AI A deepfake of crypto trading master CZ is out, entertaining the Cryptoverse. But deepfakes, entering this industry may not be so funny in the near future. In a deepfake video, published today, we see the CEO of major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), and his followers celebrating…
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Major players in global electronic payments are shying away from Libra, spooked by the scrutiny Facebook’s operations are attracting from regulators around the world. Shutterstock Barely six months after Facebook announced its own digital currency, a plan heralded as the beginning of the end for central banks and government controls over the money Read more…
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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 Ratings since shortly after their launch. _________________ While crypto markets are quiet, the crypto industry evolution and revolution continues. Most investors don’t see this. Pretty much all they watch are the…
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Blockchain is touted as the next step in the digital revolution, a technology that will change every industry from music to waste. When it comes to money, it goes well beyond bitcoin. Academics have claimed it will “do to the financial system what the internet did to media”. There are many versions of public blockchains…
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