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Crypto-Wills: How To Leave Cryptocurrency In Your Will
Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 6:38pm | 1472The Basics of Cryptocurrency and How to Leave it in Your Will the Right Way Author: Patrick Hicks, Head of Legal with Trust & Will Cryptocurrency is a relatively new phenomenon and as such, leaving cryptocurrency in a will is somewhat uncharted territory. If you’re one of many who...
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16 Basic Cryptocurrency Terms You Need to Know
Monday, August 16, 2021 - 6:45pm | 683This article by Kelly Ebbert was originally published on NisonCo and appears here with permission. Whether you’re just hacking into the crypto industry or you’ve been thinking about starting some cryptocurrency trading on the side, it’s a great move to...
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Reddit's Crypto Communities Are Driving the Hype Behind MemeCoins, Is This a Danger For New Investors?
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 - 2:25pm | 1208After the r/SatoshiStreetBets and Elon Musk Tweet-fuelled rise of Dogecoin in early 2021, many online cryptocurrency communities began hungrily pushing their own tokens. From ‘groundbreaking tokenomics’ to charity coins, every MemeCoin imaginable began capturing fledgling investors with...
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Ethereum Versus Bitcoin: A Tale Of Two Blockchains, Can Ethereum Eclipse Bitcoin?
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 - 1:47pm | 2685Introduction Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is the largest cryptocurrency in the world being valued at around $32,000 with a market capitalization of roughly 621 Billion Dollars. It was founded back in 2009 and is the first cryptocurrency to have ever utilized blockchain technology. Fast forward four years...
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Square Scores With Afterpay Acquisition And Bitcoin Revenue, But Cathie Wood Sells The News. What To Do In Case She Was Right.
Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 9:02pm | 13537Jack Dorsey's Square scores with Bitcoin trading revenue, but its latest acquisition profits from the poor. Silicon Valley Monetizes Precarity Eight years ago, journalist Steve Sailer made an astute observation about Silicon Valley, that the "sharing" economy...
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Could Cryptocurrency Become A Key Player In The Fight Against Climate Change?
Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 8:42pm | 1230Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, an increasing probability and rate of natural disaster, and the pervasive feeling of doom; sometimes the concept of climate change can feel too large and overwhelming to even begin to think of possible solutions. This overwhelm makes sense too, considering the...
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Why Cryptocurrency Matters To Finance And Accounting Professionals
Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 8:18pm | 968If you pay attention to cryptocurrency markets, you'll notice that prices have gone up—way up. Since 2009, the value of Bitcoin has gone from fewer than ten cents to over $56,000 (as of this writing). The value quadrupled in 2020 and surged more than 63 percent in 2021. Though...
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How Blockchain Will Enable The World's First Equitable Data Economy
Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 8:05pm | 1309By Charles Silver, CEO of Permission.io If browsing the internet doesn’t seem as fun as it did in the past, that’s because it isn’t. It’s work. In our data-based economy, interacting on social networks, filling out surveys, reading news stories online and...
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The Importance Of Community Governance In DeFi
Monday, August 2, 2021 - 12:13pm | 514Decentralized Finance (“DeFi”) platforms have greatly grown in popularity in 2020 and 2021 year to date, having a significant impact on the financial technology sector. These platforms were created by combining blockchain technology with financial technology, providing financial...
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Betting On A Bitcoin Breakout With A Hedged Bet On Riot Blockchain. Heads You Win, Tails You Don't Lose Too Much.
Monday, August 2, 2021 - 9:53am | 671Stonetoss's classic comic on Bitcoin volatility. Bitcoin Attempts Another Breakout As I type this early Saturday, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) looks like it's attempting to break out of the range it has been stuck in since mid-May. Chart via Coin Market Cap. Here I'll...
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Payment Systems' Mechanics: The Risks And How To Deal With Them
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 - 8:57pm | 1357By Nikolay Bocharov, Head of Anti-Fraud Department at the global payment network Mercuryo All participants of the crypto-powered payment industry have their roles. Based on these roles, they establish specific relationships among each other and with regulators, including Card Schemes and...
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AS Roma Just Became The World's First Professional Football Organization To Embrace Blockchain Technology In $42M Partnership Deal
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 - 8:18pm | 1414Iconic Italian football club, AS Roma just struck a $42 million product partnership deal with support from the DigitalBits Foundation. In an excitingly new development in the world of sports, AS Roma (ASR) has reportedly become the world’s first major professional football organization to...
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Bitcoin Excitement Extends To Stocks; Now It's Time For MicroStrategy Longs To Add Some Downside Protection
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 - 7:48pm | 695Pseudonymous cartoonist "Stonetoss" on Bitcoin volatility. More Sunday-Monday Excitement For Bitcoin Haven't we been here before? Bitcoin rallies on a Sunday after some rumor about wider adoption or some other catalyst, and then bounces off the top of its range on Monday. This time,...
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Crypto Marketing Strategy Insights From Big Blockchain Exchanges
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 - 4:06pm | 2518By Anastasia Semianova Ask any team behind a successful business if marketing is an important part of its development, and the answer will undoubtedly be a Yes. At the same time, when we think of a blockchain and crypto industry, where developments happen at the speed of light, the standard...
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7% Of Crypto Asset Could Be Held In Hedge Funds In The Next Five Years And Here's Why
Monday, July 19, 2021 - 7:39pm | 951By Rebecca Barnatt-Smith A recent survey conducted by Intertrust has indicated that hedge funds will increase their cryptocurrency holding to 7% in the next five years. Moreover, by 2026, hedge funds plan to increase their crypto exposure significantly, producing new digital assets and...