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By Juan M. Villaverde On July 8, 201911:07 AM Eastern
Some are calling Facebook's Libra a “cryptocurrency.”
But that label doesn't quite fit, as the fundamental defining principle of cryptocurrencies is decentralization. And Libra defies that...
By Juan M. Villaverde On July 3, 201903:21 PM Eastern
Within just the last couple of weeks, so much has been said and written about Facebook’s Libra, it’s making a lot of people very dizzy.
But, as often happens in the crypto world, much of it is...
By Juan M. Villaverde On December 19, 201808:55 AM Eastern
Big corporations have amassed giant treasure chests of customer data. They’ve stored the data in a central location. And they’ve connected their huge, centralized databases to the Internet.
In...
By Juan M. Villaverde On September 19, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Last week, I demonstrated how highly successful distributed applications (killer dApps) will be the driving force behind mass adoption of cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technology.
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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...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On May 21, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Some people think banking crises are purely a thing of the past. Others fear the next crisis will be like the last one — a repeat of 2008. We envision a third, very different scenario, which...
By Mandeep Rai On February 7, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Have you ever heard the term “buy and hodl”?
No, that’s not a typo. “Hodl” is Bitcoin slang that means “hold through thick and thin” — from the early days when it was trading for a fraction of...
By The Weiss Crypto Team On May 18, 202103:30 PM Eastern
You’re already familiar with Layer-1 technology, even if you’re unfamiliar with the term. Layer-1 is the base blockchain technology that runs all cryptos. Now, Juan Villaverde, editor of Weiss...
By Juan M. Villaverde On May 31, 202404:00 PM Eastern
And it’s going to make big waves in the market.
By Beth Canova On May 8, 202404:00 PM Eastern
The market has been dragged down since Bitcoin’s halving. But BTC and other leading cryptos are changing their tune.