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Is blockchain capitalist or socialist? Libertarian or collectivist? Leftwing or rightwing? The answers to the above questions are neither or both, as we shall find out in this article, scraping throug...
1200 words, 4.5 minute read Central bank balance sheets are ballooning the world over, and in parallel, adoption of shared ledgers using blockchain is accelerating. These major shifts indicate the glo...
As summer of 2020 is coming to an end, the DeFi movement is peaking. With ETH up over 70% in July, the total value locked in leading decentralized finance protocols surpassed $7 billion, making it imp...
A much more intelligent person than me once saidthat cryptocurrency is “everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers.” This makes me feel ...
It’s very hard to argue that there has been a better innovation in the fintech industry than blockchain in the last decade. This small but powerful technology has completely changed the understanding ...
Early July I wrote my blog Blockchain and Interoperability: key to mass adoption. There I concluded that “we may say that blockchain seems to be at the threshold of widespread acceptance and adoption”...
There has and continues to be much talk around digital securities or security tokens, which are securities represented digitally on a blockchain. Many advantages are talked about on how they will disr...
Based on the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey's comments, there will soon be a decision whether to create a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for the UK. A state-issued digital pound has mu...
Banks and financial institutions were shockingly slow to respond to the rise of fintech - now they are in danger of making the same mistake with the rapidly emerging crypto banking sector. While legac...
The extent of money supply increases needed to facilitate stimulus packages by sovereign central banks to counter the negative effects of the current crisis will dictate the inflationary pressures tha...
According to an April study published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), in fear of transmitting COVID-19 via cash, people are increasingly looking into cashless payments. With a sudden ...
Cryptocurrencies have been around for a while now, and we’re well past the point where they were considered a temporary, passing gimmick. At this stage, many people agree that cryptocurrencies are the...