Crypto-Analysis

Europe is about to take a major step towards “Sinification” by introducing total control over the cryptocurrency operations of its citizens. European regulators decided that they had found a way of denying anonymity to any cryptocurrency dealings. Ever since the first real crypto boom in 2017, European financial regulators have taken an ambivalent position regarding…

This is more of an assumption, but the progression of events, the documents being adopted, and the author’s own information sources all indicate that the state digital currency of the Union State of Russia and Belarus could arrive completely out of the blue. The dramatic events unfolding in Belarus since August of last year are…

We have young people growing up today with experience dealing with money like no other generation before them. And while for people of the previous generation money is primarily coins, bills, and maybe also credit cards, in the minds of the youth, the word “money” has a lot more associated with it. Not the least…

New data from Cambridge University shows that the geography of mining has drastically changed over the last six months, and experts tell CNBC this will improve Bitcoin’s carbon footprint. By this May, China has been accounted for nearly 75% of all Bitcoin miners at its peak, according to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. But…

We continue to study platforms used for creating different blockchain projects: stablecoins, DeFi, synthetic assets. Today on the agenda is Terra [LUNA]. On July 16, the Terra [LUNA] crypto project team announced that it had received $ 150 million in investments to develop its ecosystem. The investments came from a pool of 23 large funds…

Will Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) make Bitcoin obsolete or not? – professor Sean Stein Smith reflects in the Forbes column. Recent comments by the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, highlight the need for more productive conversations around crypto competition. During testimony to both the House and Senate the topic of a central…