Last week, a global consortium was announced at the WEF to focus on designing a legal framework for managing digital currencies, including stablecoins. In 2020, the WEF brought more than 3,000 global leaders from politics, government, civil society, science, arts and culture, and media together. Under the theme “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World”, […]
The misconception that technology enslaves us can be contrasted with another view. A perspective that sees technology as a tool for individual emancipation. Thoughts on the new digital age by Claudio Grass. Internet – the Decentralized (R)evolution People are driven by different motives. Some see the greatest happiness in the accumulation of material values, others […]
This year’s CV Blockchain conference in Davos had interesting topics and speakers. While many representatives from the Blockchain industry presented the latest developments in various areas, economist Roubini was extremely critical of the developments. Just as the promising discussion round on “Decentralized Finance” (DeFi) was concluded with promising prospects for the future and a mood […]
The recently observed price increases in bitcoin have caused the search volume on Google to rise. According to statistics on Google Trends, this pattern of bitcoin price increases correlating with increased search volumes, has been observed frequently in the past. But there are also other findings. Google Trends is an online service provided by Google […]
Basel-based Thierry Gilgen is launching a digital trading platform together with business partners. This platform collects and analyzes real-time data. It enables everyone to operate with the same resources of a bank, so to speak. The Business Parc advised and mediates experts. Thierry Gilgen is bubbling with energy. With the start-up and system “MachinaTrader“, the […]
(Source: JD Lasica via flickr.com) At the end of November, Stephan Roth asked the daring question: “is Andrew Yang crypto’s man”? To the ears of crypto fanatics, attempting to provide an affirmative answer to such a question, is heresy. For crypto-hardliners, the notion that the highly libertarian crypto-movement could be advanced by a political figure […]
We saw an eventful year, with investment growth in the crypto-currency sector as well as in trading. There were also some important macro moments that have motivated Bitcoin traders in 2019. A review and outlook by Patrick Heusser. Bitcoin: Trading review 2019 and outlook 2020 If one looks at the market as a whole, as is done […]
In May 2020 it is “halve-time”. The fee received by a miner for securing the blockchain network in the form of newly created bitcoins will be halved. The term known as “halving” will half bitcoin’s inflation rate. Thus, it is important to ask, what impact have the past halvings had on the price of bitcoin? Bitcoin money supply and inflation Bitcoin, as a […]
Bitcoin is undoubtedly becoming more popular. While many people have heard of bitcoin, the percentage of the world’s population that owns bitcoin is still negligible. In the following article, a two-pronged interpretation regarding the distribution of bitcoin will be presented. The first part will focus on total quantity and distribution. Total quantity: Limited maximum number and inflation rate […]
Central bank policy and monetary system Since the financial crisis, the global trend that the central banks are pursuing is evident. Currently, an expansive monetary policy is being propagated by central banks, which was originally intended to rescue the traditional banking system. However, this policy is now being further continued in the hopes of achieving the vision of eternal growth without recessionary periods. Low […]
