Why is the price of bitcoin for future settlement above the current (‘spot’) price? How are hedge funds trying to arbitrage differences in cryptocurrency funding rates? Why is the largest […]
In an echo of the 2011 Libor scandal, Coinbase’s past manipulation of the bitcoin price impacted a key market benchmark. On Friday the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which regulates […]
In an extended interview, media scholar Andrey Mir, author of “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers”, talks about the social media-driven polarisation in society and explains why our future money […]
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 […]
According to Dr. Franklin Noll, our digital money future will look a lot like the past: we are heading back to a time when humans had to juggle between many […]
Two of the three founders of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange will surrender to US authorities in coming weeks. Their forthcoming trials could help throw light on the controversial crypto-dollar, tether. […]
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 […]
The New York Attorney General (NYAG), Letitia James, today announced an $18.5m settlement of its fraud case against the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and its affiliated entity, stablecoin issuer Tether. 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 […]
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: […]