Fintech Felt Like Funtech but Now Libra is On Its Way
Libra is on its way. The battlefields are marked. The trenches are built. The die is cast.
The financial crisis of ten years ago has profoundly shaped the social-cultural climate of the world. Especially in the...
Will an ETF Transform Bitcoin like it did in Gold?
March 28th 2003. That was the date the world’s first gold exchange-traded fund (ETF), ETFS Physical Gold (GOLD), made its entrance on the world stage. Around 18 months later, the largest and most renowned...
An Overview of Privacy Coins
One of the most sought after features of cryptocurrency is the relative anonymity one can have when sending and receiving payments. Whereas PayPal, for example, requires each sender to disclose details up-front pertaining to...
Various types of Distributed Ledger Technology
Introduction
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have become common buzzwords as their adoption, use and fascination grow globally. This new asset class is gaining interest with time as more people accustom themselves with digital currency. In comparison,...
The Importance of Cold Storing Cryptocurrencies & Generating Offline Transactions
Knowing how to properly secure cryptocurrencies is imperative to you not becoming a statistic. Generating private keys offline and storing them as encrypted text files on a USB drive is the absolute safest place...
Is It Now the Time to Replace the Banks with DeFi?
DeFi a.k.a. decentralized finance is here to over throne traditional banks, yet the billions of dollars worth institutions are still blind to the new age of finance.
What are the services that come to your...
All Things Cryptos.Forex.Stocks — 06/22/2018
Friday afternoon rolls in and a zillion things cross my mind that I need to talk about on my weekly blog. In summary the Global Equities are feeling the jitters from the escalating tariff...
Canadian City of Calgary launches its own digital currency
It's been a painstakingly agonizing year for the Crypto bulls - Ask anyone who had invested in the decentralized digital currencies at the beginning of the year or late last year when the cryptocurrencies...
Ethereum is still a force to reckon with in Cryptoverse
As the bull market strengthens with each passing day in the Cyptocurrencies, we can be cautiously optimistic that the Crypto winter is behind us. This morning Cryptos have really come alive as Bitcoin trades...
Stocks rebound revives hope but Cryptos struggle…
Some sort of sanity returned to volatility driven U.S stocks in the past week with the traders seeing the calmest period for the benchmark S&P 500 in three months, which did not post a move...
Cryptos recovery still elusive as Dovish FOMC fuels Stock gains
It was slim pickings for the Cryptos in the financial markets as the grind lower continued. With interest now diverted towards other digital assets like the tokenized securities, stable coins & cross border digital...
Swiss based ETP enters the Crypto trading market
Although there is hardly ever a dull moment in the financial market specially after the introduction of Cryptocurrencies, this week saw a little more meaningful market moves in all three market segments - Cryptos,...
Estonia’s Corporate Tax System Explained (Questions and Answers for Laypersons)
Estonia offers a favourable and unique tax policy, and this is one of the three main reasons that lead many crypto-companies to choose that country to run their businesses. To discover the other two...
Smart Dubai – World’s First Blockchain-powered Government initiative
The transformation of this small fishing village in the middle of the Arabian desert about 30 years ago to a major business hub and go to tourist destination for millions of people has been...
What are some of the Blockchain Security Risks?
While there is no denying that blockchain technology has brought transparency, security & reliability via the trustless, decentralized systems, nefarious players have found loopholes to penetrate the different security mechanisms that blockchains provide. To...
Cryptocurrencies reviving Agorism
Agorism in term commonly associated with the philosophy of counter-economics. The concept of Agorism was introduced by the Black market activist Samuel Edward Konkin III also known as SEK3. Through his libertarian ideals he defined...
4 Charts showing ‘Big Money’ accumulation in Bitcoin
Bitcoin has touched $9K so far this year - price levels not seen since July 2018. The crossing of the psychological level of $10K is still a level that needs to penetrated convincingly to...
A Guide to Masternodes
If you think that the only way to earn money from cryptocurrency is to simply buy some coins, "HODL", and hope the price sufficiently appreciates, then think again.
Already, projects have come up with a...
A few Promising additions to the Blockchain Ecosystem
Blockchain is evolving rapidly with new innovations being added on a daily basis. Just wanted to share some of the promising projects that I came across recently. So without further ado let's explore them.
Chainalysis
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Cryptocurrency 2018: is it worth investing in?
As we approach the half-way mark in the year, how will cryptocurrency shape up in Q3 and Q4? Here’s our insight into the future:
With the combined market cap of $17.7bn at the start of 2017...