Analysts tend to get complacent when their favorite asset goes into ranging mode for an extended period of time. BTC has been range bound for more than thirteen weeks, hovering about $10,300, as if “low volatility” was its middle and last name. We have seen a dearth of recent outlandish predictions of how high the…
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The advent of blockchain technology created a level of hype and enthusiasm that the Fintech industry had not witnessed since, perhaps, the introduction to the masses of the Internet. A few intuitive futurists had actually discerned years back that the “Internet”, per se, was nothing more than an “enabler” of a wave of innovative thinking…
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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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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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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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The Greenwich Associates (GA), a global analytics and consulting firm based out of Stamford, Connecticut, has published a new report, which sounds an alarm bell that blockchain technology, i.e., Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), when applied to the cross-border payments space, could be overly disruptive and undo financial arrangements that have evolved over centuries. The report…
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