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Juan M. Villaverde On
August 15, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Last week, an insightful email hit my inbox with a bang. It delivered a story of widespread crypto market manipulation.
To paraphrase …
Big-money whales sell off their crypto to buy Tether....
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Tony Sagami On
August 13, 201807:55 AM Eastern
There’s a huge obstacle keeping cryptocurrencies from becoming a mainstream investment. That is, the inability of large institutional investors to find a third-party custodian to hold it for...
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Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 8, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Monero, Dash, Zcash and similar coins use advanced mathematics to protect the privacy of transactions, and the technology underlying these specialized coins can be very beneficial.
It could help...
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Tony Sagami On
August 6, 201807:55 AM Eastern
On July 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission again rejected an application from the Winklevoss twins to launch a new Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF).
When the news hit the tape,...
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Juan M. Villaverde On
August 3, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Since early 2017, the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) marketplace has been growing at an unstoppable pace.
Even in 2018, in the midst of a crypto market that’s been mostly bearish or dead, new...
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Juan M. Villaverde On
August 1, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Despite the tremendous amount of expert manpower and money poured into blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), crypto naysayers continue to push their negative narrative.
“It’s all...
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Tony Sagami On
July 30, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I don’t know about you, but I am growing weary of the media’s obsession with what Russia did or didn’t do during the 2016 presidential election.
I have no doubt that Russia and other foreign...
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Juan M. Villaverde On
July 27, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I’m worried.
With each passing day, I see more signs of central governments around the world working in concert to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the use of physical cash.
Their goal: To...
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Juan M. Villaverde On
July 25, 201807:55 AM Eastern
The technology underlying cryptocurrencies, called Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), is sweeping the globe.
It could one day transform who controls global financial markets.
And it could...
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Tony Sagami On
July 23, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Bloomberg calls it “the definitive sign that cryptocurrencies have arrived on Wall Street.”
They’re talking about some big changes coming to one of the toughest tests in finance — the one needed...