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Keeping up to date on crypto news

28 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Dennis76

As crypto buyers, earners and hodlers, it is very important to keep abreast not only on crypto news and events, but current affairs and news which can greatly affect crypto prices, markets and the ability to earn crypto. For example, the upcoming US...

Why we need Decred: An inclusive approach to sound money

26 Sep 2020 21 minute read 2 comments rubyshred

What is sound money, and how is it related to Bitcoin? Why do our currencies lose value over time? Can we automate politics out of monetary policy making, but retain a structure for coordination and governance? Abstract: This research paper outlines...

Economic Collapse in Pandemic

16 Sep 2020 4 minute read 0 comments mjain14

Over the past few years, lot many companies have predicted that a great recession will strike by late 2019 or early 2020. But perhaps, no one would have imagined that a pandemic can cause such an economic void. No one would have imagined a global loc...

Weekly Briefing No. 66 | Care to Tango with an Algo?

8 Sep 2020 6 minute read 0 comments FinRev

This Sunday, tickets to the oddly named Super Bowl LI have reached a high of $22,000 on StubHub. If your budgetary philosophy won’t countenance that kind of outlay, please rest assured that The FR is still free — so there’s that. Here’s what’s on our...

Oh Boy 😱 ! These are crazy markets ! Crypto and NASDAQ sell-offs & COVID19 is back in Europe !

3 Sep 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Crypto_Lemon

Hello HODLers, Well this is quite a hard day for all of us investors; we were used to markets only "going up" as Dave Portnoy used to say... Well, today is a clear Cryptocurrency sell-off after a bunch of Pump and Dump / Ponzi scams (Hotdog, Spaghett...

Weekly Briefing No. 53 | Financial Disruptors Have Already Won the Election

24 Aug 2020 6 minute read 1 comment FinRev

Ah, November. What could be better than the Cubs, Guy Fawkes Night, Thanksgiving and the conclusion of an interminable election season? This week we look at what November 8th means for financial services disruption, as well as noting developmen...

Safe Heaven (SHA) - from inheritance and payment solutions to corporate payments

23 Aug 2020 3 minute read 14 comments PVM

Safe Haven (SHA) is a VeChain (VET) based decentralized B2B2C platform for digital asset management and financial technology solutions. The project started in 2017 as a crypto inheritance platform, based on the Ethereum block-chain, however, moved to...

Market fragility and American debt

19 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Simplify Crypto

FED keeps interest rates unchanged and the reaction after ePowell's speech shows fragility of the markets and dependence on stimuli to keep rising. As expected, the Federal Reserve kept the interest rate unchanged, between 0% and 0.25%, reporting tha...

Top Things You Should Know About UMA (UMA)

17 Aug 2020 7 minute read 3 comments MuyAsk

Hey guys :) I’m back with another comprehensive Q&A piece, this time for the decentralized financial contracts platform – UMA (UMA). UMA – short for Universal Market Access – is a decentralized protocol and financial contracts platform that enables g...

Weekly Briefing No. 36 | The Yield Curve is Set to Light a Fire in Digital Banking

5 Aug 2020 6 minute read 0 comments FinRev

The direction of the yield curve is set to light a fuse for digital banking. This week, we look into why, as well as blockchain lobbying in Washington, the annual Allen & Co. conference, Fred Wilson’s take on corporate VCs, the next phase for Quantop...