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By Juan M. Villaverde On March 20, 201908:55 AM Eastern
When companies like JPMorgan Chase or Facebook issue “cryptocurrencies,” everyone gets excited.
“Wow! Now crypto is really gonna to take off,” they think.
Maybe, sure. But the tokens they...
By Tony Sagami On March 18, 201908:55 AM Eastern
If you ever have a chance to attend the Summer Olympics … GO!
I went to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and it was an amazing experience. Warning: Tickets to the most popular events — such as...
By Juan M. Villaverde On March 14, 201908:55 AM Eastern
The Big Four central banks of the world — the U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the Bank of England (BOE) — are arguably the most powerful institutions of...
By Tony Sagami On March 11, 201908:55 AM Eastern
Our future is going to be filled with robots. No, not “Terminator”-type androids. Rather, industrial ones that perform many of the tasks humans do today.
Robot usage is already taking off. In...
By Juan M. Villaverde On March 6, 201908:55 AM Eastern
Facebook is taking the plunge.
Behind closed doors and under a veil of not-so-secret hush-hush, they’re preparing to launch their own “cryptocurrency.”
No one on the outside seems to know what...
By Tony Sagami On March 4, 201908:55 AM Eastern
When will the cryptocurrency market take off?
That’s easy. When institutional investors start to throw even a small part of their trillions of dollars into it.
But before mutual funds,...
Below is the recent Weiss Ratings submission to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in response to the CFTC’s request for input on crypto-asset mechanics and markets.
We are very...
By Tony Sagami On February 25, 201908:55 AM Eastern
It is always a good thing when scumbags get their just desserts. I was pleased to see that Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán got convicted and will likely spend the rest of his life...
By Juan M. Villaverde On February 21, 201908:55 AM Eastern
Despite a tremendous improvement in transaction volume in leading cryptocurrencies, crypto naysayers continue to push their negative narrative.
“It’s all worthless,” they say.
“It will all...
By Juan M. Villaverde On February 13, 201908:55 AM Eastern
On Jan. 28, Canada’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, QuadrigaCX, suddenly went dark. At least $136 million in customer assets vanished under highly suspicious circumstances.
How was that...