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Tether reserve mystery drags on

March 11, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Last month cryptodollar issuer Tether agreed with New York prosecutors to come clean on its reserves, long a topic of controversy. But the general public may still end up none […]

Digital ID will be crypto’s killer app

February 26, 2021 Comments are Disabled

In the latest New Money Review podcast, Paul Gordon, the founder of Coinscrum, the UK’s oldest and most popular cryptocurrency networking and events group, shares his thoughts on the past, […]

Kraken clients see red

February 25, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Yesterday I wrote a post on Twitter saying that clients of crypto exchange Kraken didn’t have much of a case for compensation after Monday’s flash crash in ethereum. During the […]

Yesterday’s price crash revealed large dislocations in the market for the second-largest cryptocurrency, ethereum. Although cryptocurrencies can be traded around the world 24/7, there is no single market for the […]

DeFi is centralised after all

February 19, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The major promise of DeFi is decentralisation. But activity is now shifting to a wholly centralised platform. To an outsider, there are many incomprehensible things about the expanding DeFi craze: […]

Tether has to open its vaults

February 18, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Stablecoins—digital money backed by assets of stable value—are in vogue. But for a stablecoin to function, its users have to trust in its backing. And history is full of examples […]

Bitcoin transaction fees rise—but are they enough?

February 18, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Doubts remain about the leading cryptocurrency’s long-term viability. Bitcoin miners—the computers securing the network and keeping a record of transactions—rely on two sources of income: the block reward and the […]

Jack Bogle was right

February 15, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The warnings of the man who popularised index investing have proved eerily prescient. Jack Bogle, late founder of the world’s second-biggest asset manager, Vanguard, was notoriously opposed to exchange-traded funds […]

Linking energy and money

February 11, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Far from being a problem, bitcoin’s electricity consumption is healthy. In fact, making an explicit link between energy and money would help promote sustainable economic development, says Andrew Webber, founder […]

Ethereum network sees record congestion

February 6, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Congestion on the ethereum cryptocurrency network has hit record levels, driving per-transaction fees into three figures and rendering many decentralised finance (‘DeFi’) projects unviable. “Just spent $100+ on ETH gas […]

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Tether has to open its vaults

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Jack Bogle was right

Linking energy and money

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