The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Latest Billionaire Bull, Zcash’s Upgrade,…
Bitcoin continues to rally, with one indicator suggesting the bulls have room to roam. Zcash, the privacy-minded blockchain network, had its first halving. And acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks may stay on for…
First Mover: Why the Fed Cares About Remote…
Bitcoin was lower after surging nearly $600 on Thursday to climb above $16,000 for the first time in almost three years. “Investors should plan for volatility as well as price appreciation,” the blockchain analysis firm…
MicroStrategy CEO Explains Why Bitcoin Is ‘a Million…
MicroStrategy’s headline-grabbing bitcoin bet was a rational response to a macroeconomy in chaos, said Chief Executive Michael Saylor. Appearing Tuesday at CoinDesk’s Bitcoin for Advisors virtual conference, Saylor shed new light on one of this…
Blockchain Bites: Billionaire Bullish on Bitcoin, Updates on…
Another billionaire investor disclosed his bitcoin bags. The Silvergate Exchange Network added another exchange member. Riot Blockchain, a publicly traded bitcoin mining firm, recorded bumper revenues with plans to expand. Top shelf Billionaire’s bitcoinBillionaire U.S.…
Crypto Long & Short: Bitcoin Gets Ready for…
Of all of the many clever things Mark Twain is alleged to have said, one of my favorites, especially these days, is: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what…
Money Reimagined: Crypto-Informed Ideas for the Future of…
The good news is America is not in the midst of a full-blown civil war – not yet, at least. But, however you feel about Joe Biden’s apparent victory in the most difficult presidential election…
Financial Advisors, Bitcoin Is the Next Amazon
This is what skeptical investors are saying: 1. “It’s a bubble.” Andy Edstrom, CFA, CFP, is the author of the book Why Buy Bitcoin, a financial advisor, and Head of Institutional at Swan Bitcoin. He…
Why Crypto Is the Next Big Trend in…
Cryptocurrency might be a perfect addition to a financial service practice, if you’re trying to grow and maintain your business. Why would I say this when we know that most advisers would never tell their…
Bitcoin adoption could reach 90% by 2030, investment…
With the recent influx of mainstream financial players into the blockchain space, how long will it take for corporate allocation of Bitcoin (BTC) to become the norm? Brian Estes, founder of investment firm Off The Chain…
Spotify competitor Audius airdrops $8M of tokens to…
The crypto-powered Spotify competitor Audius has retroactively distributed 50 million of its native AUDIO tokens to artists and listeners using the platform. The distribution came alongside the launch of the AUDIO governance token on the…
How DeFi Can Avoid the Irrelevance of P2P…
How many Libertarians do you think there are in the United States? Everyone, right? Everybody wants personal freedom and a limited government. Just listen to Twitter bots and the talking heads on the propaganda channels.…
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund indirectly holds almost…
The Norwegian Government Pension Fund, also known as the Oil Fund, has over $1 trillion in assets, including 1.4% of all global stocks and shares. It is considered the world's largest sovereign wealth fund. According…
First Mover: Uniswap’s Sudden $5B Token Valuation Cements…
Earlier this week, analysts with the cryptocurrency analysis firm Arcane Research were musing that new developments appeared to have slowed in the fast-growing blockchain arena of decentralized finance, known as DeFi. But they predicted that…
First Mover: Federal Reserve Does What It Wants…
Every time the Federal Reserve meets, it’s important to remember that the only real monetary policy tradition at the 107-year-old institution is that a bunch of people will get together and talk about markets and the economy and…
13,000 DeFi users have already claimed Uniswap’s new…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Uniswap’s governance protocol token UNI went live on Ethereum earlier today. The community showed immediate support for the new token with Uniswap’s Twitter announcement garnering over 1.2 thousand likes in the…
Fed Chair Powell’s Flexible Inflation Views Were Already…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell did not raise many eyebrows Thursday morning when he announced the U.S. central bank would encourage some periods of inflation above its 2% target in certain circumstances to boost the…
Fed, futures and fundamentals: 5 things to watch…
Bitcoin (BTC) starts another week in a bullish mood as hurdles line up to shape price trajectory. Cointelegraph presents five factors determining where BTC/USD may go in the coming days, and what traders should look…
BlackRock, Vanguard, Indirectly Hold Bitcoin Via MicroStrategy Investment
Earlier this week Bitcoin (BTC) bulls and crypto investors were thrilled by the news that MicroStrategy, a Nasdaq-listed business intelligence company worth $1.2 billion, had formally adopted Bitcoin as its primary reserve asset by purchasing…
How Grayscale Investments Sells Bitcoin to Financial Advisors
In a webinar hosted by InvestmentNews, Grayscale Investments’ managing director, Michael Sonnenshein, and financial consultant, Tyrone Ross Jr., educated financial advisors about the benefits of crypto investments. A slide from Sonnenshein’s presentation. Grayscale offers ten…
Market Wrap: Derivatives, Altcoins Take Market Spotlight as…
Traders want a bitcoin price breakout but they aren’t sure when that will happen. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $9,174 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 0.64% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour…
DeFi Protocols Should Be Fiduciaries, Not Structured Product…
Lex Sokolin, a CoinDesk columnist, is Global Fintech co-head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based blockchain software company. The following is adapted from his Fintech Blueprint newsletter. This week, I grapple with the concepts of financial…
WisdomTree Tests SEC’s Bitcoin Acceptance Threshold With Latest…
Many investment firms have launched crypto exchange-traded funds, but so far, none has found favor with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Firms keep trying, though, and this past week, two more tendered applications…
Demand for Charter Cities During Covid-19 Pandemic Grows…
For quite some time now, a number of libertarians, bitcoin evangelists, and blockchain entrepreneurs have been promoting the idea of charter cities and seasteading concepts. One such project, Pronomos Capital, has raised $9 million from…
US Financial Services Committee Hearing Discussed the Creation…
On June 11, 2020, the United States Congress Financial Services Committee held a remote hearing about the creation of a “digital dollar.” A number of well known individuals participated including the former Chairman of the…
First Mover: Fed Sees No Inflation Through 2021,…
There’s no end in sight to loose monetary policy at the Federal Reserve, and that’s just fine with bitcoin bulls. Officials with the U.S. central bank, led by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, said Wednesday…
Multibillionaire Hedge Fund Pits Bitcoin against Lower-Yield Bonds
Bitcoin got a special mention in a journal penned by Paul Britton, the CEO & Founder of Capstone Investment Advisors. The hedge fund manager recommended asset allocators to think about alternatives to government bonds, such…
Institutional Interest in Bitcoin to Keep Rising After…
Having recently gone through the third halving, one of the most important events in the ecosystem, Bitcoin (BTC) continues to establish itself as a new asset class and a worthy contender to gold as a…
Analyst: Key Signs Show There’s a “Good Chance”…
Since hitting $9,500 last week, Bitcoin has entered a consolidation pattern around $9,000. The cryptocurrency has traded between $8,700 and $9,200 for days, failing to decisively break out of this range. Some say this is…
This Odd Signal Marked Bitcoin’s $3,700 Lows. Now…
It’s been a strong week for Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market. Per data from Coin360.com, the leading cryptocurrency has gained close to 20% in the past seven days. While this is undoubtedly…
Future of Finance: CBDCs Offer the New Architecture…
Despite its nascency, central bank digital currencies and their offshoots have rapidly evolved into a serious alternative to typical bank accounts. A CBDC is electronic money issued by a central bank for use by consumers…