To understand bitcoin, think of it as a technology rather than as a speculative financial asset, a leading computer scientist said this week. “People often talk about bitcoin as an […]
The leading cryptocurrency’s design features cause it to behave weirdly: the more speculators buy bitcoin, the greater the short-term downward pressure on its price. “There are two features of bitcoin […]
Bitcoin poses a revolutionary challenge to conventional models of financial governance, says a University of Luxembourg researcher. Financial market infrastructures—or ‘FMIs’, for short—are the most heavily regulated part of the […]
The dramatic March 12 price crash in cryptocurrency markets showed that the underlying market structure of bitcoin and ethereum is broken and needs fixing, says Kyle Samani, our guest on […]
Serious long-term holders of bitcoin want to control the private key that gives them ownership of their coins. In practice, many delegate control to specialist custodians like BitGo, which is […]
The leading cryptocurrency will be the world’s future financial settlement network, says Obi Nwosu, chief executive of London-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinfloor, in an exclusive interview with New Money Review. Obi […]
Last week the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Agustín Carstens, made a spirited defence of central banks’ role in the global monetary system. “The monetary and […]
Asset manager WisdomTree has shaken up Europe’s cryptocurrency tracker market with the launch of a new bitcoin product that undercuts competitors by more than half. On December 3, WisdomTree listed […]
In developed financial markets, a fundamental principle of the legal regime is that a financial institution’s assets and its clients’ assets are kept separate. That way, if the institution goes […]
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is boosting its response to innovative financial technology such as cryptocurrency by appointing European Central Bank board member Benoît Cœuré as the head of […]
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