Crypto as a luxury good
    08 May 2022
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    Unwrapping Sam Bankman-Fried’s analogy about money-printing boxes, Daniel Kuhn of CoinDesk describes why he sees crypto as a luxury good. About 20 minutes into his latest interview with Bloomberg, crypto’s favorite entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried said something revealing about the industry: Crypto is mostly a shell game. “You know, where do you start? You start with…

    Regulating the Crypto Wild West
    01 May 2022
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    Digital assets present both opportunities and challenges that the regulators have to deal with, says Raghuram G. Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India. A well-functioning financial system is a key component of any successful economy. Without efficient payments and broadly accessible financial services, people cannot engage easily in commerce, save for a…

    Fast, fluid, frictionless crypto payments are the future – expert says
    28 Apr 2022
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    What does it take for a technology to really break through? – asks Dan Jeffries, an author, futurist, systems architect, and thinker, speaking on CoinDesk’s Payments Week. How does it go from something only a few people use to something everyone uses without even thinking about it? For over a decade people have wondered whether…

    ‘The bull thesis is the long-term crypto adoption,’ Coinbase analyst says
    27 Apr 2022
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    Crypto trading platform Coinbase continues to have a “bull thesis” even amid a crypto market sell-off, Owen Lau, Oppenheimer executive director and senior analyst, says. He believes “this is a great entry point for investors.” “The bull thesis is the long-term crypto adoption,” Lau said on Yahoo Finance Live. “That’s number one thing the market…

    Crypto-assets will back onto investors’ radar amidst Russia-Ukraine crisis – 3iQ CEO
    25 Apr 2022
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    Crypto assets are tracing a path back onto investors’ radar, notes Fred Pye, CEO and Chairman of Canadian investment fund 3iQ Corp. Anticipating the further pivot to crypto, he suggests that what’s happening at the present moment is only accelerating the crypto revolution. According to Frederick Pye’s opinion column on Gulf News, the conflict in…

    Coinbase Ventures reveals its crypto outlook for the rest of the year
    23 Apr 2022
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    Coinbase Ventures, the investment arm of crypto exchange Coinbase, recapped what it did in Q1 and what it sees happening in crypto over the rest of the year. One of the most active venture capital firms in the crypto market made 71 investments over the first three months of the year, with a record $12.5…