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By Juan M. Villaverde On October 24, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Here’s why you shouldn’t touch ’em with a ten-foot pole
Cryptocurrency technology is advancing at an accelerating pace. And with each step in its evolution, landmark innovations are...
By Juan M. Villaverde On October 17, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Who would win a China-Bitcoin war? How would it impact Bitcoin’s price? Would it bring down the whole crypto world? Or would it give competing cryptos like EOS, NEO and Cardano more room to...
By Juan M. Villaverde On October 10, 201807:55 AM Eastern
One of the positive consequences of the crypto bear market is that it forces projects to either adapt or die. It separates the real companies from the passing fads.
That’s especially true for...
What will it take for blockchain, more broadly called Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), to go mainstream and change the world as we know it today?
In the first part of this series, we...
By Juan M. Villaverde On September 26, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Today’s banking system is an opaque web of intermediaries and third parties that stand between you and your money.
Moreover, as I’ll demonstrate in just a moment, they’re gutting the income on...
On January 24, 2018, the first Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings were released. Bitcoin got a C+ (“fair”). And many in the crypto community fiercely denounced the grade as overly punishing.
Charles...
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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With Bitcoin again testing its lows of 2018, crypto critics are reverting to their same old mantra. “Cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value,” they say. “Their market price will fall to zero,”...
By Juan M. Villaverde On September 12, 201807:55 AM Eastern
“You’ve gotta start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology.”
— Steve Jobs, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, 1997
The key to mass adoption of...
By Juan M. Villaverde On September 7, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Wall Street’s so-called “experts” are creatures of habit. They behave in patterns that are as predictable as the tides.
When a market soars into bubble-land, they pour out of the woodwork to...