Bitcoin Tests $12,000 Mark as Decentralized Finance Surpasses $4 Billion August 4, 2020 This week the price of Bitcoin (BTC) went from about $10,200 to a near $12,000 high, but it was met with resistance and crashed to less than $11,000 within 6 minutes. At press time, it’s trading at $11,200 as it steadily recovers. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, started the week at $355 [...]
‘A Day in the Life’ of Jimmy Nguyen- Founding President, Bitcoin Association July 31, 2020 Jimmy Nguyen is the Founding President of Bitcoin Association, the Switzerland-based global industry organization that supports Bitcoin SV. One of the main competing chains of Bitcoin, Bitcoin SV uses the original Bitcoin protocol and is massively scaling to be the global enterprise blockchain. Following a distinguished legal career, Jimmy shifted tracks professionally in 2017 to focus [...]
Five years in the making: the hard fork to end all hard forks July 29, 2020 Ever since entering the blockchain space, with a view to building my own project Vaureum, I have been searching out best of breed partners to work with. It was in November 2017 when an associate with a number of patents under his belt said to me ‘if you are looking to do anything in the [...]
Crypto app Abra launches interest accounts after illegal swaps penalty July 28, 2020 Cryptocurrency investing app Abra has today launched interest-earning accounts, as it recovers after settling with US regulators over allegations it illegally offered swaps to users. Abra will now offer investors up to nine per cent annual interest on their holdings of crypto and so-called US dollar stablecoins — digital currencies tethered to the value of [...]
SwissBorg TALKS to BEQUANT- A Day in the Life of Alex Fazel July 28, 2020 Alex Fazel is Chief Partnership Officer at SwissBorg- a trusted and accessible wealth management ecosystem powered by blockchain technology. Our ‘Day in the Life’ series continues today with an interview with Alex Fazel to discuss SwissBorg, Digital Assets and how robot advisory is the future of wealth investment. What is usually the first thought that [...]
The good, the bad and the ugly of the cryptocurrency dream July 28, 2020 Way back in 2014, I debated the merits of bitcoin with cryptocurrency evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos. It was a wonderful, civil and not too disobedient dialogue. I was sceptical, not cynical. Six years later, I remain sceptical but now have a cynical bias. Let me explain what I see as the good, the bad and the [...]