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Regardless of one's investment objectives, whether short-term, long-term, bearish or bullish, change in the stock market is constant.

Match point. The 2023 Australian Open men’s finals. Novak Djokovic, who had missed last year’s tournament because of his vaccination status, was now on the verge of winning his record 10th Australian Open. If he wins this point, he wins the set, he wins the tournament

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) are an equitable, efficient means of distributing stakeholder power and resources. Removing the need for a central governing authority, they align with Web3’s decentralized, egalitarian ethos.Since the original DAO – simply

During last year’s World Cup, the crypto world saw the re-emergence of an almost forgotten trend: soccer fan tokens. Sorry – football (for you non-U.S. readers) fan tokens, a concept started by blockchain provider Chiliz back in 2021. At the tail end of 2022, while a

Circle Internet Financial’s $3.3 billion cash reserves problem was seemingly solved Sunday when federal regulators promised that depositors of failed Silicon Valley Bank would be made whole in short order. But Circle’s USDC stablecoin isn’t out of the woods.That

Silvergate Bank, en algún momento quizás la institución financiera más importante en el sector de las criptomonedas, cerrará sus puertas tras un período de retiros catastróficos y un fallido rescate de parte de una entidad federal

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Amazon is reportedly launching an NFT marketplace next month -- a move widely lauded in the industry as it further cements the increasing adoption of the digital assets. The effort follows that of...

In the years since Bitcoin first emerged, many other cryptocurrencies and tokens have arisen, each attempting to solve a different problem or address a different use case.

It was the best of times … well, okay, my highfalutin analogy is already falling apart.It’s just the worst of times.

If this year’s bruising battle between U.S. regulators and the crypto industry were a prize fight, we might judge the latest round as one in which the latter finally landed some meaningful blows even as the former maintained the upper hand.By the week’s end, fallout f

Is ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain and the second-largest by market cap behind bitcoin, an investment security?The question has been a source of simmering speculation ever since Ethereum switched last year to a proof-of-stake blockchain network w

Industry heavyweight and crypto-friendly bank Silvergate announced March 8 that it was winding down operations and liquidating, as it believes it is "the best path forward."  The Future of Finances:...

Silvergate Corp. (SI) is a publicly traded company covered by at least 10 sell-side research and financial analysts. These analysts evaluate Silvergate (and other regional banks) and issue a recommendation on the company’s stock or debt (e.g., buy, sell, hold).To a person,

Silvergate Bank, perhaps at one time the most important financial institution in crypto, will wind down after a period of cataclysmic withdrawals and a failed bailout from a federal mortgage backer. The bank’s conversations with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last week

Paul Krugman recibió un duro golpe de parte de un proveedor centralizado de pagos. Tal vez ahora esté aprendiendo algo nuevo sobre el valor de Bitcoin.Read this article in English.

Market efficiency, the hypothesis that states asset prices reflect all available information, has split the advisor community.Most advisors say the market is efficient and that you should just own the market. As a result, they suggest investing in diversified portfolios or passiv

The short timeline between the FTX exchange's collapse in November 2022 and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) vote in February 2023 to expand the types of digital assets included in the so-called Custody Rule shows that regulators are moving quickly to tak

This week, Glenn Williams Jr. tackles one of the core bits of infrastructure that anyone in the hunt for crypto investments must grasp.Then, Todd Groth of CoinDesk Indices wades into one of traditional finance’s biggest numbers: $7 trillion.

Paul Krugman has been rugged by a centralized payments provider. Maybe he’s learning something new about the value of Bitcoin.This morning, Wednesday March 8, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and longtime crypto skeptic took to Twitter to announce that the payments app Ven