Download this episode What impact will crypto have on the nature of organizations? Will experiments in crypto’s governance lab lead to lasting trends in how companies are orchestrated? This week on the Opinionated podcast we discussed this big topic with Jeff Dorman, the chief investment officer at Arca, a crypto hedge fund. Dorman, a CoinDesk
The past 12 months has seen a substantial increase of interest in central bank issue of digital currency, CBDCs. While few central banks have announced plans for issue of CBDC, there is a general sense on the need to be ready if it should happen. In this session we will flesh out what a central
Bitcoin has recovered most of its losses seen at the beginning of this week, thus proving to skeptic investors who were quick to predict the end of the top cryptocurrency’s bull run. The world’s leading crypto asset advanced as much as 7.5% to briefly climbed to $40,000 again on Thursday, with other altcoins such as
Roughly $500 million worth of cryptocurrency futures positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours. The mass liquidation of positions happened before the price of Bitcoin (BTC) dipped below $34,000 on Jan. 17. Bitcoin total liquidations. Source: Bybt.com Why were so many positions liquidated? Overnight, the price of Bitcoin rose by 6.7% from $35,500 to
The growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) has exploded over the last year, beginning with less than $1 billion in total locked value to almost $20 billion currently. DeFi has created transactional opportunities that were previously impossible without blockchain technology, unlocking additional value for users that was previously captured by third parties. With the explosion of
As the team behind Morph.Finance can attest, developing an algorithmic stablecoin project can be every bit as frustrating and thrilling as investing in one. While algorithmic assets have retreated from mid-December marketcap highs, the space has nonetheless continued to attract intrepid investors and developers aiming to position themselves at the forefront of a new financial
Bitcoin is seeing relatively lackluster price action today, with it consolidating within the mid-$30,000 region as altcoins all explode higher Where the entire market trends in the mid-term should depend largely on whether or not Bitcoin bulls can establish $37,000 as support The crypto has tested this level on a few occasions overnight, and it
In a bid to combat the use of digital currencies as means of financing terrorism, a group of representatives from the Republican and Democratic Parties has introduced a bipartisan bill to the House on Jan 13, which seeks to create a task force focused on preventing the usage of cryptocurrencies in sponsoring terrorism. Bill Against
On June 25, 2020, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission brought suit in the Northern District of California against NAC Foundation LLC, also known as the NationalAtenCoin Foundation, and Rowland Marcus Andrade, the company’s CEO, alleging that the company had violated the federal securities laws by selling an unregistered, pre-functional version of an “Anti-Money
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