Top Cryptocurrency exchanges experience historic volume ahead of Bitcoin’s halving May 12, 2020 This week the price of Bitcoin (BTC) began rising from about $8,600 to surpass the $10,000 mark on May 8, before seeing a pullback. Over the weekend, it lost 12% of its value in 15 minutes, dropping from $9,480 to an $8,300 low, but has since recovered to $8,600 at press time. Ether (ETH), the [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on NAYMS May 12, 2020 NAYMS is building the world’s first insurance market that allows Institutional crypto-holders to underwrite cryptocurrency risk. “In 1686, individuals called ‘names’ came together to cover risk of all varieties by pledging capital in return for a yield. The Lloyds of London marketplace was born. It’s now 2020, and NAYMS is bringing together capital markets and [...]
The Building Blocks Of Recovery May 12, 2020 It would be an understatement to say that the fight against COVID-19 has been a challenging one. This completely unprecedented situation has no easy solutions and people are making decisions that they have never had to make in the past, with very little or no evidence to go on. It is very much unchartered waters, [...]
Bitcoin: Five Factors; One Conclusion, Three Parts May 12, 2020 Bitcoin (BTC) has been labeled as an “uncorrelated asset” since BTC is not directly connected to global GDP, company, revenues, profits (P/E ratios), dividends, and instead, relies on the network effect. For those reasons, the million dollar question is… What are the factors that impact Bitcoin’s price the most and why? The answer to this [...]
Fake news websites exposed by their supply chains May 11, 2020 Fake news websites could be identified by the partners that provide their video streaming and advertising, research shows. The new approach could help search engines and social media giants, such as Facebook and Twitter, to flag untrustworthy articles more rapidly and prevent their misleading content going viral. Fake news stories and conspiracy theories have proliferated [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Koine May 5, 2020 Founded in 2017 by Al Moore and Phil Mochan, Koine offers segregated, institutional custody and settlement of digital assets, providing a transformative security model, eliminating settlement and counterparty risks. Under the steer of CEO and Chairman Hugh Hughes, Koine brings together, for the first time, the full suite of governance, compliance, risk management and audit [...]
Three things to expect from the Bitcoin Halving 2020; an on-chain perspective May 5, 2020 The bitcoin halving is estimated to happen 7 days from now, on 12th May around 11:30am. Contrary to some unpopular beliefs, halving does not refer to the price. Halving means that the number of bitcoins ‘rewarded’ to miners is cut in half. At present time, miners are rewarded 12.5 BTC ($112,500) for each successful block [...]