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Trump vs. Twitter Fight Reignites Social Media Decentralization Vision

Blockchain has been hailed as the silver bullet for social media, which has long suffered from censorship, data mining, and surveillance capitalism. In the last few years, innovators have created several blockchain-powered social media platforms to combat the challenges found in...

, by Alex Lielacher

How BRRRing Money Printers Today Might Lead to Higher Taxes Tomorrow

Steven Pressman is the Professor of Economics at Colorado State University. French philosopher Voltaire famously quipped: “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” Something similar can be said of modern monetary theory, also known as MMT, because it may be the...

, by Steven Pressman

Governments Can’t Cancel Pandemic Debt By Printing More Money

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...

, by Ananish Chaudhuri

How Governments Will Kill Libra

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 supply, the whole thing is looking like a house of cards. The project, named Libra, was taken seriously in part because it had...

, by Elvira Sojli

Ethereum 2.0: The Original Ethereum Will be Gradually Phased Out

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. _____We rarely make a big deal about crypto tech upgrades. We dissect them....

, by Juan M. Villaverde

Why This May Be The Time For Bitcoin To Shine

Gary McFarlane is a cryptocurrency analyst at interactive investor, a UK-based investment platform. ____With central bank money-printing machines switched back on, might bitcoin be the star of the recession?Crypto – it’s still all about COVID-19 for nowWhether the bounce in both bitcoin...

, by Gary McFarlane

Bitcoin’s Growth To Help Make Its Price Less Volatile

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...

, by Brian Wong

Stiffened Regulations, Naira Devaluation Pushing Nigerians to Crypto

Nigerians are embracing cryptocurrencies owing to stiffening regulations Cryptocurrency usage is all-encompassing The surge could drop as the economic effects of the pandemic ease More education is needed to capture all age demographics.Around the world, the acceptance and utilization of...

, by Godfrey Benjamin

ECB Executive Board Member on European Payments in the Digital Age

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...

, by Fabio Panetta

Hey, Gov’t Officials! Do You Still Think You Can Ban Bitcoin?

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. _____________Dear government official,If you’re a member of Congress,...

, by Juan M. Villaverde

How Blockchain Could Prevent Future Data Breaches

Just before the new year, approximately 15 million Canadians — about 40 per cent of the entire population of Canada — learned that their sensitive personal data, collected by one of Canada’s major lab diagnostic and testing services, had been breached.The data included name,...

, by Victoria Lemieux

Are Miners Waiting for Bitcoin to Hit Breakeven Point?

Johnson Xu is the Chief Analyst at TokenInsight, a token data and rating agency. _____The sharp market downturn in mid-March 2020 forced some Bitcoin (BTC) miners to switch off their mining rigs. As a result, the Bitcoin network hash rate plummeted to ~75.8 EH/s. After reaching its lowest recent...

, by Johnson Xu

Regulating & Enabling Innovation: A Policymaker’s Perspective

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...

, by Greg Medcraft

Could Stablecoins Kill off Ripple?

The stablecoin market is booming. Since the start of the year, fiat-pegged tokens have seen an aggressive influx of funding as crypto traders continue to seek price-stable assets as a store of value.However, stablecoins are evolving past trading asset usage scenarios and are now increasingly being...

, by Alex Lielacher

Balancing Security, Decentralization & Scalability in Blockchain

Marie Tatibouet is the Chief Marketing Officer at crypto exchange Gate.io.______It was a quantum leap for Bitcoin (BTC) when its block size got close to 1 MB in 2017. However, the BTC blockchain is still only allowed to tackle seven transactions per second, many times fewer than the actual demand....

, by Marie Tatibouet

The UK and US Clamping Down On Crypto Trading – It’s Not Yet A Big Deal

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...

, by Gavin Brown

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