Crypto Long & Short: Why the PayPal Rally Isn’t What It Seems, and Why That’s OK
The bigger you are, the bigger the splash when you jump in the water. And when it comes to mainstream payments companies, there are few...
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DeFi Still Needs a Silk Road Moment
Mainstream criminal adoption would prove that decentralized finance (DeFi) is building tools with real utility, because if there’s any one group that is both underserved...
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Should We Care if the US Is Falling Behind on CBDCs?
A reading of two recent op-eds on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
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Bitcoin’s Rivalry With Gold Plus Millennial Interest Gives It ‘Considerable’ Upside Potential: JPMorgan
Bitcoin has proven itself to be a risk asset, not a safe haven, with “considerable” potential upside, according to a Friday note from JPMorgan’s Global...
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Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Paul Tudor Jones: A Bet on Bitcoin Is a Bet on Human Ingenuity
A recap of an exceptionally bullish week for bitcoin and crypto as a whole. On this week’s Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at: The initial...
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IBM-R3 Pact Shows Tech Trumps Tribe in Enterprise Blockchain
News this week that R3 and IBM are working together raised eyebrows, because each entity has been on different and competing sides since the early...
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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Pulls Back From $13K While Ether Falls on DeFi Cooling
Bitcoin has pulled back from 2020’s highs while ether slips as DeFi cools off. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $12,919.97 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m....
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Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Release Kicked Back Until November
The Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract is a few weeks away at least, according to Ethereum Foundation researcher Danny Ryan. Speaking Thursday on the Bankless podcast,...
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FBI Investigated Extortion Attempt Against Ripple About Allegedly Negative Videos
Ripple Labs Inc., a San Francisco software company that develops XRP, one of the five largest cryptocurrencies, was blackmailed at the height of the crypto...
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Why Fiats Are Failing in 2020
From Brazil to Argentina to Turkey, bitcoin priced in local currencies is reaching all time highs. But is this a story of bitcoin succeeding, fiat...
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US Moves to Cast a Wider Net for Catching Money Launderers, Crypto or Otherwise
The Federal Reserve, the U.S.’s central bank, published a proposed rule change Friday asking about the recording requirements for money transfers involving virtual currencies. According...