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Derivatives exchanges fed bitcoin crash

March 20, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Leveraged trading platforms played a big part in driving last week’s price collapse in bitcoin and ethereum, says a cryptocurrency fund manager. On March 12th bitcoin dropped from $7,800 to […]

Cutting the risk of exchange

March 19, 2020 Comments are Disabled

A few minutes or two days? In dangerous financial times, the time it takes to settle a transaction—exchange cash for goods—is vital. Now gold market participants are using new tech […]

Whose backstop?

March 17, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Welcome to the new financial system. Same as the old one? On the face of it, the philosophical differences between centralised and decentralised finance (or ‘CeFi’ and ‘DeFi’, for short) […]

Bank of England calls for help amidst payment revolution

March 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The UK’s central bank has called for public input regarding the design of a new national digital currency amidst what it calls a revolution in payments. In a discussion paper […]

Big Brother hasn’t won—yet

March 12, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Governments and big tech firms now observe all our activity online and can both predict and influence our behaviour. But some technologists are fighting back against the assumption that these […]

FCA’s crypto risk warnings cause confusion

March 5, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The UK’s financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), caused confusion this week by issuing risk warnings against two cryptocurrency exchanges, Kraken and BitMEX, then withdrawing one of them. One […]

BitGo enters crypto-asset lending market

March 5, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Crypto-asset custodian BitGo is launching a new service for institutional clients, enabling them to lend out their bitcoin or obtain cash loans for cryptocurrency collateral, the firm announced today. “BitGo […]

Buy more, price goes down: the strange case of bitcoin

February 27, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The unusual incentives built into the bitcoin network mean that the cryptocurrency inverts the laws of economics: the more people buy bitcoin, the more its price goes down. That’s the […]

Wyoming crypto bank to exploit legal split on custody

February 25, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Avanti, a new crypto-asset bank to be based in US frontier state Wyoming, will take advantage of the state’s potentially revolutionary new legal framework for the custody of clients’ crypto […]

The spirit of innovation

February 24, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Money is undergoing unprecedented change: around the world, we see new ways of paying each other, new stores of value, new ways of recording economic activity and new forms of […]

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Derivatives exchanges fed bitcoin crash

Cutting the risk of exchange

Whose backstop?

Bank of England calls for help amidst payment revolution

Big Brother hasn’t won—yet

FCA’s crypto risk warnings cause confusion

BitGo enters crypto-asset lending market

Buy more, price goes down: the strange case of bitcoin

Wyoming crypto bank to exploit legal split on custody

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