Weiss Crypto Daily

Care to guess how many cryptocurrencies there are? If you include non-native tokens (typically dubbed “ICOs”), there are over 1,600 in existence worth around $370 billion in market cap. And,...

If you haven’t heard the news, you probably will very soon: The U.S. Justice Department is collaborating with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to launch a probe into the Bitcoin...

Heads up: We are getting ready to publish, for the first time, our sub-grades that are behind each and every one of our 93 cryptocurrency ratings: • One grade for technology and adoption —...

The Federal Reserve and other U.S. banking regulators are getting ready to water down the Volcker Rule. Reason: They want to make it easier for megabanks to take big risks with other people’s...

If you were working for one of the most profitable investment banks in the world and got a big fat raise, you’d probably be jumping for joy. Not Chris Matta, a freshly appointed vice president...

Why would anyone want to use crypto? Traditional money and banking work just fine, don’t they? In the world’s most advanced countries, yes. At least most of the time. But in countries that...

Juan Villaverde hit the nail on the head a couple of weeks ago: He said a Bitcoin correction was due by mid-May, give or take a few days. And sure enough, it’s here. The correction, he writes,...

I’ve had it. I’m tired of the nonsense we keep hearing that crypto has “no intrinsic value” because it’s created “out of thin air” or is “not backed by anything.” It wouldn’t irk me so much if...

With geopolitical crisis on the horizon, the economies of the world have a problem: They’re too reliant on an ever-growing pile of debt, both private and public. In 2008, it was the private debt...

Juan Villaverde covers mostly the cryptocurrency side of this space. I focus on the blockchain technology and business side, where a lot is changing very fast. Here’s your weekly crypto news...