It seems that each asset bubble has a famous anecdote from someone who claims, being on top, that a collapse is impossible. In the stock market bubble that led to the Great Depression, it was the economist Irving Fisher, who declared in the New York Times that the stock “has…
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The former chief economist of the IMF and current professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University, Kenneth Rogoff, believes that bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies currently represent little more than “lottery tickets” at this time. Writing in The Guardian on Monday, Rogoff said that while some believe that cryptocurrencies…
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First of all we must clarify that it is ‘mining Bitcoin’. Without the intention of offending the technicians and of course the unknown in the matter, we will make a simple similarity of what the Bitcoin mining process is about. Imagine that you learned that in the yard of your…
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The firms are working on the development of a browser complement. Which will work in a similar way as the product developed by Moon to allow Bitcoin payments on the site through Lightning Network. Two Blockchain service startups announced an alliance to allow users of the Amazon retail chain to…
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The former Soviet republic of Georgia, which occupies picturesque mountain valleys and rugged ridges of the southern Caucasus. It has roughly the same population as the state of Connecticut. It is known for being the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, as well as being one of the oldest wine regions in…
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The American entity thus becomes the first bank to make a strong bet on digital currencies. It will have a restricted use to transactions between large investors, excluding individuals. The US bank JPMorgan Chase announced the launch of its own cryptocurrency, JPM Coin. Which will be indexed on the dollar…
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DX.Exchange, the digital trading platform powered by Nasdaq technology based in Estonia. It is one of the first in the industry with its launch of value tokens offer quotes and value tokens offers. As previously reported, DX.Exchange became operational in January, with support for several trading pairs of shares in…
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The Japanese cryptocommerce platform Liquid has reached the status of unicorn with the first closing of an ongoing financing of the Series C that places the valuation of the company in more than USD 1,000 million. The news was reported by Cointelegraph Japan on April 3. Liquid’s parent company is…
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The character string “0bs” in 0bsnetwork stands for “Zero Bullshit”. The Vienna Blockchain startup wants to offer a faster, more financially easier to plan and easier to handle alternative to Ethereum. We talked to founder Srdjan Kupresanin. “Our slogan ‘Zero Bullshit’ in the name is a clear reference to 95…
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Amazon Pay is a very popular and widely used online payment method. Worldwide, many retailers and online retailers have chosen Amazon Pay as the payment method, and the latest partnership could significantly expand merchant opportunities. From now on, all Worldpay retailers will be able to use the Amazon Pay service…
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