Grayscale Investments Successfully Attracts Institutional Investors

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Various financial firms maintain active cryptocurrency portfolios these days. Grayscale Investments is one of the more well-known companies in this regard. The company has published its first digital asset investment report, which offers rather interesting insights. Approximately $250 million was raised during the first half of 2018. Grayscale Investments Continues to Truck Along Few people … Read more

What Is Open Banking, and Is It Good or Bad?

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You know that major feature of blockchain technology? The one that cuts out the intermediaries and drives down the fees? Open banking is like fintech’s solution to that. If your bank is involved in open banking, it means that it’s part of a network of financial institutions. And between these institutions, your data is shared securely … Read more

Why Traditional Assets Are Hard to Sell, and How Blockchain Might Be a Solution

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Tokenization on the blockchain can make all asset groups easier to liquidate by creating a tradeable standard in security tokens. Longer term, return-seeking strategies typically tend towards investment in real estate, private equity, hedge funds, and companies. But as illiquid assets, these can be hard to shift quickly, and this locks up a vast amount … Read more

Wendy McElroy: Other Than the Black Market, a Last Stand for Economic Freedom

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The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 4: State Versus Society Chapter 9, Part 5 Crypto: Other Than The Black Market, A Last Stand For Economic Freedom? Money…is the economic area most encrusted and entangled with centuries of government meddling. Many people, many economists, usually devoted to the free market stop short at … Read more

Bitcoin Is Impractical, Blockchain Is Overhyped: Stripe COO

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Blockchain-based payment systems will not replace credit cards and other mainstream payment methods, at least not within a decade. This is mainly because they are too slow for day-to-day payments, with a Bitcoin transaction currently taking the better part of an hour. This is according to Claire Hughes Johnson, the COO of popular payment processor … Read more

Bitcoin Cash Developers Debate an Idea Called Pre-Consensus

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This past Thursday, the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC, Amaury Séchet, published a paper on the social media platform Yours.org about a protocol technique called ‘pre-consensus.’ According to Séchet, and other BCH developers like Bitcoin Unlimited’s Peter Rizun, pre-consensus could improve block propagation time, benefit zero-confirmation reliability and help delegate decisions tethered to consensus conditions. … Read more