Crypto CFDs and why they’re not worth the effort
Cryptocurrency trading is almost at its peak already, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re where we want to be in terms of volume. In the past, there were quite...
January 29, 2020
Opinion
2020
Chainalysis traced $2.8 billion in Bitcoin sent by criminal entities to crypto exchanges
While exchanges have always been a popular off-ramp for illicit cryptocurrency, they’ve taken in a steadily growing share since the beginning of 2019. Last year, the U.N. shared a similar...
January 16, 2020
Ethereum-based DEX surpassed $2.3 Billion trade volume in 2019
In 2019, a total of $2.36 billion trade volume was executed on Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges (DEX). According to the analytics site Dune, IDEX leads with $853 million in trade volume...
January 8, 2020
2019
Banks in Germany have open hell gates for Euro savers. Negative Rates passed on to retail clients
After continued five years of negative rates imposed by the European Central Bank, some banks in Germany now have passed-on the charge to their retail clients for all their savings...
December 4, 2019
Employees of big tech companies would not trust them with their financial data
Big tech companies are swiftly planning to move to the financial sector. With Google’s checking accounts to Facebook’s digital currency, the traditional banking system will face direct competition with the...
December 3, 2019
The effect of blockchain and cryptocurrencies on developing nations
The political atlas, as we all know, is divided into two brief categories. One category contains the countries that have reached an incredible level of Human Development Index (HDI) –...
December 1, 2019
German banks allowed to sell and store crypto. How it may benefit Bitcoin?
A new business area opened up for German banks. Starting in 2020, German banks can sell and have custody of Bitcoin and other crypto-assets. Earlier German banks were not allowed...
December 1, 2019
Europe plans to overcome US-based payment providers dominance
Europe is planning to build an improved instant payment system to overcome the dominance of US-based payment providers such as Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, etc in Europe. To overcome this threat,...
November 28, 2019
Why do video games use cryptocurrencies?
Many don’t associate cryptocurrencies with things such as video games, but the coins have already tapped into some of our most beloved games and it seems they’re not about to...
November 25, 2019
Fostering negative interest rate policy through digital currency (CBDC)
The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 triggered the global financial crisis. To combat, central banks cut the interest rates to near zero. A decade later, interest rates still remain...
November 25, 2019