Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. In an unstable world, Stablecoin market growth continues as Crypto goes sideways.  With Russia menacing Ukraine and the world potentially facing the largest conflict since World War 2, our small sector of stablecoins is growing and working as intended, stable! Cryptocurrencies, […]

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Inevitable does not mean imminent. It is inevitable that the decentralized Web3 will replace the centralized Web2, but nobody knows when this will happen – it is not imminent. Amaras law is still true; I have deep conviction on direction of travel, but I have no idea on the speed of travel. To trade successfully […]

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Crypto crimes are on the rise. Last year, scammers took home a record $14 billion in cryptocurrency. Criminals laundered $8.6 billion worth of cryptocurrency in 2021, up by 30% from the previous year, based on a report by Chainalysis. On February 8, the Justice Department announced that it seized more than $3.6 billion in stolen cryptocurrency […]

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Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. CBDC development and research continues.  CBDC is the ultimate stablecoin, but the design and operational choices are not straightforward and involve substantial implementation risk (unless of course you are China).  So we will not be seeing any Silicon Valley “move fast […]

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One reason why Web3 has some negative chatter is that it is being used to hype some crypto projects. The implied correlation is Web3 is good so crypto project X is good. I am NOT promoting any crypto projects, but I think that Web3 based on decentralised and permissionless exchange of value is real and […]

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Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Will stablecoins and CBDC’s help or hinder Crypto? Some would argue that CBDCs will cancel out the need for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. After all, how many different digital currencies do we really need?  This article argues that in fact, the opposite […]

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The Internet was originally designed as a decentralized system to withstand attack by the Soviet Union during the cold war. The Internet protocols are also permissionless. You just connect your system to the Internet. Nobody can stop you – except the market if you don’t add value. That changed with Web 2 when centralized services […]

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In 2000 we had the “dot-com bowl,” and twenty-two years later it looks like we’re going to have the first “crypto bowl.” Among this year’s Super Bowl advertisers are two crypto companies, Crypto.com and FTX. Advertising during the Super Bowl can put a brand in front of an audience of 100 million people, but placing […]

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Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Facebook exits the stablecoin business, or has it? This week the news was dominated by the news that Facebook has exited the stablecoin arena.  Or has it?    Certainly on the face of it (no pun intended) it looks like a clean […]

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Is it Libra or is it Diem, is it Facebook or is it Meta?  Hard to keep up with all the name and brand changes, but whatever way you look at it, the news just in about the sale to a US based VC called Silvergate for $200m represents a significant fail. To try and […]

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Gavin Wood, now based in Switzerland, is crediting with coining the term Web3 in 2014 when he was CoFounder and CTO of the Ethereum Foundation. Web3 is a vision of a an Internet that is not controlled by a few big centralised players such as Google, Facebook and Amazon ie the Web2 we use every day. […]

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The entire week JPMorgan, the biggest US bank, was all over the Greek news. This weekend it was mentioned countless times in Greek parliament by the prime minister and several other cabinet members, during the no-confidence vote initiated by the main opposition leader. Last Monday, JPMorgan announced that it agreed to acquire a 49% stake […]

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