Bitcoin’s volatility has fallen by 70% in five months, reflecting calmer trading since the cryptocurrency’s price peak at the end of 2017. Volatility is a widely used measure of risk […]
Far from squandering electricity, bitcoin miners perform a socially important function by converting otherwise unusable energy into a global store of value, say analysts at CoinShares, a firm specialising in […]
Some institutional investors have written off cryptocurrencies as a bubble. Others may be taking their first steps to allocate money to a new, uncorrelated asset class. Wherever they fall on […]
A major discovery by Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin, was that you could ally game theory with computer science and cryptography and achieve a self-sustaining financial network. But there’s […]
A fierce debate over the optimal size of bitcoin blocks may have led to a schism amongst early adopters of the cryptocurrency. But the more efficient usage of block space […]
Just over a year ago, the fact that the price of one bitcoin had exceeded the price of one ounce of gold captured headlines. But this was only the start. […]
In the New Money Review podcast, technologist Dave Birch predicts a period of seismic change in the global monetary system. Birch is a commentator on digital financial services and the […]
Leaving too much data in the hands of profit-seeking commercial entities is proving dangerous for democracy and society. Can blockchains help? In March 2018 media giant Facebook became the epicentre […]
With cryptocurrency prices and trading volumes booming, cryptocurrency exchanges are seeing a meteoric rise in business. At the same time, exchanges, which are largely unregulated, remain an apparent weak point […]
For any investor exposed to bitcoin’s wild price movements during the closing months of 2017, a reliable and liquid hedging tool must have been top of a Christmas wish list. […]