Tag Archives: Cryptocurrencies

Despite slumping markets, the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry continued to grow last year, driven by sustained funding activity and increased user adoption. In 2022, DeFi users growth averaged 44% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ), according to a report by crypto fund HashKey Capital. In Q3 2022, the industry reached a milestone, surpassing the five million DeFi wallet threshold. This growth came amid sustained support from investors in the cryptocurrency sector. In...

Markets got aggressive long before the FOMC did. Everything, and I mean everything, has been trending the other way. Jay Powell says inflation risks are most pressing when markets have consistently priced the opposite for a whole lot longer. It’ll be revised history when ultimately the mainstream attempts to write it over the months ahead, many will try to snatch some limited victory from the jaws of defeat. Should recession happen and bring an end to the...

TANSTAAFL is an acronym for “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”. It has been around a long time – Rudyard Kipling used it in an essay in 1891 – but it was popularized by Robert Heinlein’s 1966 book, “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. In economics it most often refers to tradeoffs or opportunity costs; resources are scarce and if you choose to use them in one way they aren’t available for an alternate use. The other way the phrase is often used is to describe a...

Can Russia Evade Sanctions via the Gold and Bitcoin Trades? [embedded content] [embedded content] You Might Also Like Gold Price Today – Gareth Soloway 2022-03-24 Dave Russell of GoldCore TV welcomes back Gareth Soloway of InTheMoneyStocks.com where we ask if the bull market for stocks is back and if $2,500 on gold is still on the cards for 2022? The Fed Has No Idea...

As investors increasingly incorporate digital assets into their portfolios, the crypto custody landscape continues to grow and mature. As of late-2021, around US$230 billion worth of digital assets, or about 9% of the total US$2.5 trillion cryptocurrency market, were being stored on the technology solutions of eight crypto custodians, separate research by The Block Research and Blockdata found. Coinbase stood as a leader in the space with some US$100 billion worth of...

The headlines last Friday were ominous: Inflation Hits Highest Level in Nearly 40 Years Inflation is Painfully High… Groceries and Christmas Presents Are Going To Cost More Inflation is Soaring.. America’s Inflation Burst This morning on Face The Nation, Mohamed El-Erian, former Harvard endowment manager, former bond king apprentice, economist and the man who seems to have a permanent presence on CNBC, had this to say: The characterization of inflation as transitory...

The debate between relatively new digital cryptocurrencies versus ‘tried and true’ gold has dominated most precious metals related websites. But what if gold and cryptocurrencies were combined? According to a Bloomberg article a NYC Real Estate Mogul, after learning about cryptocurrencies from his son, is putting this concept to work by securing a minimum of $6 billion in gold reserves to back his new cryptocurrency. The concept of pegging a digital currency to an...

Interview with Icaros For this interview, I have reached out to Icaros, principal author of the blog coronacircus.com. He is part of a group of liberty lovers working to build a “freedom cell” in the Swiss Alps. Before the interview, he told me the project is advancing well, as four new families have joined recently. I also happen to know him in real life, although he is completely unaffiliated to my commercial activity. His background is information technology, and he sees the...

Urs Birchler So digital wie Bitcoin, so sicher wie ein Fünfliber oder eine Banknote der Schweizerischen Nationalbank — so wünschen sich manche das ideale Geld. Verschiedene Notenbanken prüfen deshalb seit einigen Jahren die Idee des digitalen Zentralbankgeldes (CBDC — Central Bank Digital Cash/Currency). In einem Arbeitspapier der SNB haben drei Autoren — David Chaum (DigiCash u.v.m.), Christian Grothoff (Berner Fachhochschule), Thomas Moser (Mitglied des erweiterten...

Der oft zitierte Einleitungssatz zu Leo Tolstois Anna Kerenina — „Alle glücklichen Familien gleichen einander, jede unglückliche Familie ist auf ihre eigene Weise unglücklich“ — gilt offenbar auch für die Bitcoin-Familie. Familie? Richtig. Der ursprüngliche Bitcoin (an den Börsen BTC) hat nämlich verschiedene Abkömmlinge gezeugt. Einer davon ist Bitcoin Cash (BCH), entstanden 2017 durch eine Gabelung (fork) in der Blockchain aufgrund einer Meinungsverschiedenheit der...