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Long-time regulators were not sure on if at all or how to handle the crypto ecosystem. But that has changed fundamentally with the crypto industry witnessing massive growth and interest from tradition...
Stablecoins are one of the newest hot spots on the crypto market. They have the potential to enhance the efficiency of the provision of financial services including payments, and to promote financial...
It is continually energizing to anticipate the crypto business' direction, since it's growing all the while due to, and rather than, the customary monetary framework. From one perspective, the present...
In an earlier blog about the newest trends in 2021 in the blockchain world I mentioned the spectacular growth in decentralised finance or DeFi. Decentralized finance, an unbundling of traditional fina...
Scrutiny over the strength of global supply chains has increased greatly over the course of the past year. The global pandemic, Brexit and a tanker blocking the Suez have illustrated how interconnecte...
The first U.S. dollar, as it is known today, was printed in 1914 upon the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank. Since Bretton Wood conference in 1944 U.S. dollar has been the unchallenged global reser...
NFTs are at the moment a real buzz. The word NFT stands for non-fungible token, which means a unique, irreplaceable cryptographic object. It aims to manage ownership of digital content (digital collec...
The year is 2009. A forum user, under the guise ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, sits down at their computer and is compelled to post something. They (an individual or group) have for years held a deep-seated dis
Long-time blockchain has been looked at as an isolated technology. Recently however we see a growing trend of blockchain being integrated with other technologies such as Big Data, Artificial Intellige...
Cryptocurrencies and the environmental challenges Bitcoin lovers and detractors have been fiercely arguing whether Bitcoin, the No. 1 cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, is good for the...
The biggest challenge the world faces today is absolute economic decimation for a large number of its population as we attempt to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and the havoc it has wrought on eco...
The dust has settled on the GameStop saga, and so has the stock price. Noise about Robinhood's questionable trading restrictions is calling into question the feasibility of current market infrastructu...