Neobanks and digital wallet providers like Revolut, Paypal, Robinhood and Square are already offering cryptocurrencies on their platforms. Millions of potential bitcoin buyers get access to crypto markets via PayPal, Robinhood, Square’s Cash App and Revolut. Bitcoin meteoric rise has spiked their cryptocurrency trading volumes and the number of new customers on their platforms. To…
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China, Germany and the U.S. Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. At the 4th Digital China Summit held in Fuzhou on 25 April, China and the world’s biggest bank, ICBC debuted more than thirty Digital Renminbi applications that it has independently developed during its participation in Digital…
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Some subjects are too complex for our short attention spans, so we do 4 posts one week apart, each one short enough not to lose your attention but in aggregate doing justice to the complexity of the subject. Stay tuned by subscribing. The reason to pay attention to DeFi is a) capital is flowing into…
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The cryptocurrency market ended the week with a total market capitalization of $2.23 trillion. After one of its worst periods in 2021, this week ended with gains across the board (Bitcoin +14%, Ethereum setting a new ATH, XRP +52% and Binance Coin +28%). Ethereum was in the spotlight with a 30% increase in value and…
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Will we ever see smart money? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. It seems to me to be a waste of time and effort to build a new form of money that is basically the same as we have today, especially as the technology enables us to…
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Two weeks after bitcoin was created, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote: “It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. If enough people think the same way, that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Once it gets bootstrapped, there are so many applications if you could effortlessly pay a few cents to a website…
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Something old – something new? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week we saw advances with old style stablecoins as well as with the new bright shiny Digital ones. The original stablecoin, The International Monetary Fund’s special drawing right or SDR created in 1969 to prepare…
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While the crypto industry is still in its infancy, lately it’s been seeing a lot of growth. Venture capital funding in crypto and blockchain startups is expected to break new records in 2021. The results for the first quarter of this year has been impressive, regardless on your source of data. Research from CB Insights…
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How do you engineer a Stablecoin? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. First from the crazy and wild world of DeFi we got some lessons on how not to do it. The most important data point is this: Fei was built to maintain a 1:1 peg with…
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Scanning the news this weekend there were plenty of interesting stories and we’ll be discussing three: central bank digital currencies, privacy and payments. Checking the Coinbase mobile app yesterday, bitcoin broke the $60k mark, reaching on Saturday $60,658. This is going to be a big week for crypto. On Wednesday, April 14, Coinbase, the world’s…
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