The world tends to listen to economists, when they speak, especially when the Nobel award committee has recognized them for having achieved something grand in the discipline. We also like to joke about them, as well, i.e., if you laid all economists end to end, they still would not reach a conclusion. If you were…
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News cycles come and go. A few years back, articles covering the crypto space were few and far between, often only speaking to Bitcoin and what some regulator or government official had to say about the strange new substitute for fiat currency. Fast forward until today, and there are a multitude of websites, this one…
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The historical record demonstrates that when innovation strikes a particular industry, there are first responders or leaders, and then there are the “wait-and-see” types that drag their feet, often to their own downfall, and try their best to play catch up for years to come. When the names of Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, e*Trade, and Pershing…
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HTC is making great steps in disrupting the mobile/crypto space with its blockchain mobile phone Exodus 1. The blockchain device will now support Bitcoin Cash. The news came today, after HTC confirmed that the new function will also incorporate the standard wallet of Bitcoin.com. According to press, the Exodus 1 will be sold on the…
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Bitcoin’s first decade has witnessed a seminal sea change in the way investors now evaluate a “currency” in digital terms, and with these changing times, an historical fact pattern has emerged like none other before it. Our lexicon is now filled with crypto phrases and abbreviations to beat the band. Pretty soon, especially for the…
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RoboMarkets is an investment company that offers brokerage services in multiple European countries by providing traders with the company's trading platforms, which are proprietary. The clients of RoboMarkets can access more than 11,500 different trading instruments, as well as 8 types of assets. RoboMarkets is launching the trading of Cloudflare Inc. stocks. Cloudflare is an…
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After the UN report came out claiming that North Korea has stolen and hacked over $2 billion of cryptocurrencies, and after the country denied all such allegations, the Trump Administration had decided to go after the alleged hackers. The news came from the US Treasury's press statement released on Friday, September 13th. In particular, it…
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Bitcoin's price is currently around $10,300 at the time of this writing - but not everywhere, it appears. On Kraken, Bitcoin was trading for $12,000 per coin due to an order matching glitch that the exchange has identified to be the reason for the abnormally high price of the coin. The bug was first noticed…
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The Mt. Gox bitcoin hack is probably the most vivid example of how fragile the cryptocurrency world has been in the near past. Mt. Gox was a bitcoin exchange based in Japan that handled over 70% of all bitcoin transactions around the world, and was the leading crypto exchange during 2010 - 2014. However, Mt.…
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The crypto financial press has been inundated with recent articles discussing Bitcoin dominance and how it might be sounding the death knell for Altcoins. An Altcoin death narrative seems a bit extreme a position to take at this juncture in the crypto evolutionary cycle, but authors are speaking in terms like “survival of the fittest”…
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