Opinions
- Bob Mason
The crypto regulatory landscape is an evolving one. While cryptos remain intertwined with the equity markets, regulators could ease financial stability risk.
- Martin Young
There is little doubt that Ethereum is the primary driver of current market momentum as it approaches a major shift in consensus, but could it actually surpass Bitcoin?
- Bob Mason
Elon Musk may have just turned his back on the crypto market, as he aims to do with Twitter in what has been a chequered past.
- Ilman Shazhaev
Tech stocks plummet. Startups are facing the most challenging fundraising climate in a decade. The blockchain community enters a protracted period of what is dubbed “the crypto winter”.
- Bob Mason
Crypto debit cards are getting a foothold in Europe as crypto adoption rises. Crypto and fiat currency spending options take crypto cards mainstream.
- Bob Mason
Crypto credit cards have become more mainstream in the United States. Fees, APRs, and rewards are now as competitive as fiat credit cards.
- Varuni Trivedi
As cryptocurrencies become the new way of buying, selling, and traveling, are they destined to become the payment giant in these sectors?
- Joel Frank
Another upside inflation surprise could send crypto into a tailspin, though soft consumer spending/sentiment figures could offer some respite.
- Bob Mason
The crypto winter has extended into July, with the total crypto market cap falling below $1 trillion. For decentralized application developers and exchanges, it has been a particularly tough year.
- Bob Mason
This winter, the Bitcoin Whales showed resilience to deliver price support. Bitcoin Hodlers could begin to rise in numbers amidst bullish projections.
- Aaryamann Shrivastava
One of the most significant drawbacks for Bitcoin has been the sudden brake its whales hit as soon as the April crash took place.
- Julia Magas
The second quarter of 2022 was the worst performance period for Bitcoin (BTC-USD) in the last 11 years, as its price collapsed by almost 60% from $45,000 to less than $19,000.
- Sujha Sundararajan
Nano blockchain network uses Open Representative Voting (ORV) consensus mechanism and has an energy footprint for one transaction being 0.00012kWh.
- Cyril Widdershoven
Libyan oil exports under force majeure as political crisis increases
- James Hyerczyk
The best advice appears to be: bet on the vaccinations to work, keep monitoring the global economy and keep an eye on gasoline demand.
- James Hyerczyk
During July, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell mentioned his concerns about labor market growth twice in his public speeches.
- James Hyerczyk
We may have seen emerging signs that stock market and gold traders are banking on dampened fears over inflation, Fed easing policy.
- Stuart Cole
The unexpectedly hawkish message delivered by the Fed last week took the markets by surprise, with cable one of the big losers.
- Stuart Cole
The policy paths of the BoE and the Fed now appear to be diverging.
- James HyerczykTreasury Traders are Asking, ‘What if the Fed is Wrong about Rising Prices Being Just ‘Transitory’?’
This time the jump in yields is different. This time, the professionals have evidence of inflation.