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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 28, 202002:37 PM Eastern“CBDC” stands for “central bank digital currency.” It’s an attempt — by the European Central Bank (ECB), most prominently lately — to project past glory into the future.
Sure, a CBDC supported...
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Juan M. Villaverde On
September 25, 202003:04 PM EasternLast week, we discussed consolidation and a base for the next move higher. But, today, we’re going to be talking about a lot of red numbers, as the correction that started early this month resumed...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 23, 202002:07 PM EasternStablecoins are cryptos that peg their value to another financial asset. For example, Tether (USDT), USDC and DAI all peg their values to the U.S. dollar on a 1:1 basis.
Decentralized Finance...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 21, 202003:54 PM EasternGoogle Trends is a service started by the internet search giant to analyze the popularity of specific terms, particular to region and by language, over time.
It’s a pretty cool tool based as it...
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Juan M. Villaverde On
September 18, 202002:20 PM EasternPerhaps it’s just another sign of a maturing market, but we haven’t seen a lot of that familiar whipsaw action in crypto lately.
Indeed, after months of high volatility — first to the upside,...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 16, 202003:37 PM EasternDeFi — decentralized finance — is basically borrowing, lending and asset trading on the blockchain — with no banker, broker, or market-maker in between.
Because of this, DeFi transactions are...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 14, 202006:21 PM EasternThe simple fact that he has nearly a million followers on Twitter but follows no one would make him one of that social media platform’s most unique content creators.
But Naval Ravikant is also...
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Juan M. Villaverde On
September 11, 202006:21 PM EasternThere was more “red” in crypto markets over the seven days through Thursday, as the down-move we pointed out last week carried into the new one.
There is a noteworthy difference. Last week, we...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 9, 202011:51 AM EasternPreviously, we showed you how to open accounts on Kraken and Coinbase, which are both major, widely-used American cryptocurrency exchanges.
But neither of them accommodate the small,...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 7, 202006:13 PM EasternFolks, we have an amends to make.
Here’s how we led the July 27 issue of Weiss Crypto Alert:
Folks, the internet giveth, and the internet taketh away.
For Twitter, it’s that times a...
