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PortuguêsRay Dalio, the billionaire hedge fund manager and founder and chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, believes capital markets are no longer free. Speaking to Bloomberg, Dalio said markets have…
Continue ReadingFrances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book, “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing,” explains how modern money creation and…
Continue ReadingIn 2008, a momentous occasion took place with the release of the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper. With author Satoshi Nakamoto explicitly calling for the deconstruction of financial intermediaries, regulators around…
Continue ReadingThere are many investors that are still hesitant to get involved with Bitcoin. They make comments like cryptocurrencies are hard to own, BTC is for criminals, and other sentiments along…
Continue ReadingThe fintech industry has been changing rapidly. Digital assets, distributed ledger technology and central bank digital currencies are gaining momentum. Multi-trillion-dollar United States Federal Reserve System money creation has increased…
Continue ReadingIn the past year, three major financial oversight bodies have voiced concerns about threats to financial stability purported to be posed by stablecoins. While acknowledging the potential for enhanced payments…
Continue ReadingHigher-than-normal selling volume pushed bitcoin down in early trading Thursday before managing to recover. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,297 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), slipping just 0.18%…
Continue Reading“Gradually and then suddenly.” –Ernest Hemingway “Your ATMs are safe, your cash is safe. There’s enough cash in the financial system and there is an infinite amount of cash in…
Continue ReadingEconomists at the Federal Reserve project that Libra, the Facebook-linked stablecoin frequently targeted by lawmakers and central bankers as an economic wrecking ball, was unlikely to have lived up to…
Continue ReadingEconomist, financial commentator and gold advocate Peter Schiff once again bashed Bitcoin in a tweet, essentially calling it fiat currency — the name for regional currencies, such as the U.S.…
Continue ReadingA languid Wednesday in traditional markets affected bitcoin as well although it’s been a steady six weeks where the world’s first cryptocurrency outperformed most traditional assets. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading…
Continue ReadingPrivate entities aren’t needed to build central bank digital currencies, said the head of the U.S. central bank on Wednesday. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, speaking before the House Financial…
Continue ReadingDecred (DCR) co-founder Jake Yocom-Piatt believes that the emergence of CBDCs will facilitate the growth of crony capitalism. He speculates that if successful, central banks will be able to play…
Continue ReadingLeaked Pentagon War Game Shows Gen Z Using Bitcoin to Battle the Corrupt State The United States has been creating military simulations, otherwise known as ‘war games,’ for years now.…
Continue ReadingDuring the last three months, the U.S. Federal Reserve has created a system of monetary avarice, as the central bank can literally do whatever it wants with zero oversight. The…
Continue ReadingNews that the Trump administration is considering a second round of economic stimulus has caused markets to surge, including Bitcoin. The asset’s entire uptrend from the Black Thursday bottom has…
Continue ReadingJerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, reported on the state of the economy at a Senatorial hearing held on June 16. During the initial report on the state…
Continue ReadingWhether or not the Federal Reserve eventually cuts interest rates to negative levels, it might be a case of heads: bitcoin wins, tails: bitcoin wins. So far this year, the…
Continue ReadingExperts in the financial market and the crypto industry foresee a major stock market correction unfolding in the short term. Given the high correlation of Bitcoin (BTC) with stocks observed…
Continue ReadingMarkets are taking the U.S. Federal Reserve’s less-than-optimistic economic forecasts quite hard, and that’s leading crypto traders to hit the sell button. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,258 as of…
Continue ReadingThere’s no end in sight to loose monetary policy at the Federal Reserve, and that’s just fine with bitcoin bulls. Officials with the U.S. central bank, led by Fed…
Continue ReadingBitcoin remains stuck below $10,000 amid jitters in traditional markets over the pace of economic recovery. As of 11:45 UTC, the leading cryptocurrency is changing hands at around $9,780, according…
Continue ReadingBitcoin saw a quick, short-lived run past $10,000 after the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve said Wednesday that interest rates will remain near 0% until the end of 2022…
Continue ReadingFederal Reserve officials see U.S. inflation as likely to stay below 2% over the next three years, based on a new summary of economic predictions released Wednesday by the central…
Continue ReadingAs Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell steers U.S. monetary policymakers away from negative interest rates, he risks becoming increasingly isolated among the world’s top central bankers. Officials in the U.K., Europe and…
Continue ReadingThe European Central Bank (ECB) may be fearing default as rumors circulate that it plans to plant at least half a trillion euros of “bad” debt in a “bad bank.”…
Continue ReadingOn June 8, news.Bitcoin.com chatted with the U.S. 2020 Libertarian candidate for president, Joanne Jorgensen. The Libertarian Party’s nominee for president is the party’s first female candidate and she is…
Continue ReadingThe COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to hit the brakes on economic activity, and in response, the United States Federal Reserve has introduced trillions of U.S. dollars to pay for…
Continue ReadingThe Federal Reserve’s Chair, Jerome Powell has hinted at using an Ethereum-based interest reference rate in a transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor). Powell also detailed in a…
Continue ReadingIn a May 28 letter to Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), Jerome Powell, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, described an interest reference rate based on the Ethereum blockchain, called Ameribor,…
Continue ReadingFor the first time since October 2019, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell admitted to leveraging quantitative easing (QE) tactics. Powell explained on Friday, the central bank is now comfortable with…
Continue ReadingOn May 28, the Digital Dollar Project released its white paper, a 30-page document detailing the potential applications of a CBDC. The white paper continues the nascent think tank’s work…
Continue ReadingEarlier this week, Tether (USDT) was making headlines for flippening XRP and taking the number three spot for largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Confidence in the leading stablecoin seems to…
Continue ReadingThe recent pandemic has caused a dramatic rift between everyday citizens and the politicians in charge of governing them. This growing mistrust in monetary policy may bring Bitcoin yet another…
Continue ReadingDid you notice the song that Christian Bale’s character was jamming out to in his office when his partner came in to pull the money in The Big Short? Well,…
Continue ReadingAs many economies slowly begin opening up again, their stability remains uncertain. 2020 will go down in the history books as the year financial markets suffered their worst day since…
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump’s nominee for the Federal Reserve board of governors is reiterating her advocacy for the gold standard — and adding digital currency into the mix. In an interview…
Continue ReadingThe central banking system in the U.S. and the country’s megabanks have manipulated the economy for quite some time and these days, the coronavirus has been a great excuse to…
Continue ReadingDespite the specter of inflation from money printing, the dollar has gained strength. Here’s why that’s a problem – for everyone. The dollar has a unique role in the world…
Continue ReadingThe crypto space and market cap is a small percentage of the trillions invested through the global equities market or the amount that the United States Federal Reserve is able…
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