Paul Amery, Author at New Money Review

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Bitcoin miners run out of countries

January 8, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Following this week’s forced shutdown of their activities in Kazakhstan, bitcoin miners face a rapidly shortening list of countries in which to place their equipment. On 5 January, Kazakh authorities […]

Heat rises over cryptocurrencies’ carbon footprint

January 7, 2022 Comments are Disabled

It took less than a week for Mozilla, the non-profit behind popular web browser Firefox, to backtrack on a New Year’s resolution to accept more funding in cryptocurrency. “Last week, […]

The growing problem of cryptocurrency addiction

December 16, 2021 Comments are Disabled

In the latest New Money Review podcast, psychotherapist Tony Marini talks about the growing problem of addiction to cryptocurrency. Tony Marini Marini, a specialist in gambling addiction, works at the […]

Coinbase, Kraken, eToro censured for UK crypto ads

December 15, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Three leading cryptocurrency exchanges misled UK clients with digital advertisements, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said today. The ASA is the UK advertising regulator, with the responsibility of ensuring UK […]

Unstable DeFi could trigger wider crash, warns BIS

December 6, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The booming decentralised finance (‘DeFi’) market suffers from an existential problem, says the Bank for International Settlements (BIS): it isn’t decentralised. Meanwhile, the contagion risks from DeFi to the rest […]

Central banks will provoke the next financial crisis

November 23, 2021 Comments are Disabled

A central bank policy mistake is likely to cause the next financial crisis, says Dan Awrey, my guest on the latest episode of the New Money Review podcast. “The combination […]

Cryptocurrency—who’s in charge?

November 4, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Cryptocurrency is an experimental technology. But it’s also a $2.5trn market with growing and increasingly complex linkages to the traditional financial system—whether through ETFs, the futures market, central clearing, repo […]

Why does bitcoin cost more in the future?

November 2, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Last year commodity giant Glencore pocketed $1.3bn through a clever trade it made when oil prices briefly went negative. Amidst the coronavirus shock to global trade flows, tankers idled, crude […]

Repo on the edge

October 25, 2021 Comments are Disabled

The market at the centre of the world’s financial system—repo—is witnessing record popularity. But it’s always prone to collapse, and now cryptocurrencies are joining the fray. The repo market The […]

A 400-year-old stablecoin (and why it failed)

October 21, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Stablecoins—digital currencies pegged to existing money, like the dollar, euro, pound or gold—are the hottest topic in finance. From crypto-market dollars like Tether and Circle to Facebook’s Diem project and […]

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Bitcoin miners run out of countries

Heat rises over cryptocurrencies’ carbon footprint

The growing problem of cryptocurrency addiction

Coinbase, Kraken, eToro censured for UK crypto ads

Unstable DeFi could trigger wider crash, warns BIS

Central banks will provoke the next financial crisis

Cryptocurrency—who’s in charge?

Why does bitcoin cost more in the future?

Repo on the edge

A 400-year-old stablecoin (and why it failed)

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