Follow us or the Bunny gets it. No
Bunny gets it

Subscribe for newsletter


Follow us in Twitter



Gold standard and monetary metals:


Subscribe for browser push notifications

Category Archive: 6c) Crypto Currencies English

Filter archive by: Show All Show only Articles Show only Videos

Facebook Pay To Be Available to Online Retailers Starting With Shopify

2021-07-21

by

2021-07-21

With digital payments picking up pace across the globe, social media giant Facebook is extending its payment services to online retailers. Shopify has become the first e-commerce platform to sign up for Facebook Pay. This will allow Shopify merchants to offer Facebook Pay as a payment option during checkout, eliminating the need to re-enter payment information for every transaction.

Read More »

Visa Customers Spent More Than US$1 Billion on Crypto-Linked Cards in 2021

2021-07-09

by

2021-07-09

Visa revealed that its customers had spent more than US$1 billion on its crypto-linked cards in the first half of 2021. The payments giant reported that it had partnered with 50 leading crypto platforms on card programmes that make it easy to convert and spend digital currency at 70 million merchants worldwide.

Read More »

German Stock Exchange Snaps up Swiss Cryptocurrency Firm

2021-06-30

by

2021-06-30

The operators of Germany's main stock exchange have paid more than CHF100 million ($108 million) for a majority stake in Swiss cryptocurrency service provider Crypto Finance. The move reflects a growing trend of traditional financial institutions gearing themselves up for an anticipated growth in the trade of digital financial assets.

Read More »

Bitcoin Upgraded from Vacuous Child to Rebellious Adult

2021-06-14

by

2021-06-14

Child Bitcoin
As a naughty young child bitcoin was viewed as too vacuous and devoid of prospects to warrant serious attention. At the grand old age of 22, the cryptocurrency is poised to be given a seat at the high table by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

Read More »

AntChain Inks Deal With UEFA EURO to Be Its Official Global Blockchain Partner

2021-06-11

by

2021-06-11

UEFA and AntChain, the blockchain business of Ant Group, announced a five-year global partnership around blockchain technologies and to jointly explore how blockchain technology can be used to further the digital transformation of football industry and improve the experiences of fans around the world.

Read More »

9 Top-Ranked Crypto Blockchain Project Coins You’ve Probably Never Heard of Before

2021-06-08

by

2021-06-08

Cryptocurrencies have been all the rage this year with total market capitalization surging 132% since the beginning of the year. Given this crypto frenzy, it is quite remarkable how some of the top marketcap ranking firms have eluded  mainstream attention.

Read More »

Price Discovery is Alive and Well in Crypto

2021-06-08

by

2021-06-08

“If the market continues to see wild swings based on Elon Musk tweets, it’s going to be a big setback for this asset class,” Matt Maley, chief market strategist for Miller Tabak + Co. told Bloomberg. “The fact that it sees such wild swings to the tweets from one person takes away the legitimacy of the asset class.”

Read More »

FQX Secures $4.7M in Seed Funding Led By Earlybird Venture Capital and SIX Ventures

2021-06-02

by

2021-06-02

Zurich-based FQX secures $4.7M in seed funding to scale their revolutionary eNoteTM infrastructure. Earlybird led the round with participation of SIX Fintech Ventures, the non-strategic corporate venture arm of SIX, and the unicorn founder Carsten Thoma.

Read More »

ETC Group Lists Physically Backed Ethereum and Litecoin Crypto ETCs on SIX

2021-05-26

by

2021-05-26

Blockchain Bitcoin
ETC Group, a specialist provider of digital asset-backed securities, has announced that it will list its physically backed Ethereum and Litecoin cryptocurrency ETCs on the Swiss Stock Exchange SIX.

Read More »

Bitcoin Versus Gold: A Tired Debate

2021-05-19

by

2021-05-19

Bias vs. LogicWe’ve written elsewhere about the ironic over-use of logic to justify otherwise illogical biases. As Swiss-based precious metals professionals who see physical gold and silver as currency protection outside of an openly illogical (and dangerously fractured) banking system, it is more than fair for some to challenge our own “logic” (bias?) when it comes to precious metal ownership. We understand such critiques.

Read More »

56 Fintech Billionaires Worth a Combined US$327B in 2021

2021-04-27

by

2021-04-27

There are 56 fintech billionaires around the world who combine a total net worth of US$327.7 billion, data curated by Finextra based on Forbes’ 2021 World’s Billionaires list show. These represent some of the world’s biggest and most successful fintech companies in the world including Ant Group, PayPal, Stripe and Klarna.

Read More »

Swissquote Adds 9 Additional Cryptocurrencies for Retail Trading

2021-04-22

by

2021-04-22

Swiss banking group Swissquote announced that it is expanding its cryptocurrency offering with nine additional ones.

Read More »

Societe Generale Issues Structured Products as Security Token on Public Blockchain

2021-04-20

by

2021-04-20

Societe Generale announced that it has issued its first structured product as a security token directly registered on the Tezos’ blockchain network.

Read More »

Critics Claim Bitcoin Is a Threat to the Environment. They’re Wrong.

2021-04-14

by

2021-04-14

One popular critique of bitcoin is energy cost per transaction. This doesn’t begin to capture bitcoin’s massive energy savings compared to fiat currency. Bitcoin’s cost per transaction is well known, and often critiqued; one article in Wired magazine called bitcoin “[a] big middle finger to earth’s climate.” This is because bitcoin’s security, redundancy, and architecture are more energy intensive than traditional payments relying on a single point...

Read More »

Swiss banks queuing up to jump on blockchain train

2021-04-13

by

2021-04-13

Digital bank Swissquote is expanding its crypto business by delving into the new world of blockchain-compliant digital assets. It appears that they are not alone: several high street banks also plan to launch “tokenization” services.

Read More »

Delta Exchange Closes US$5 Million Raise From Blockchain Valley Ventures Among Others

2021-04-09

by

2021-04-09

Delta Exchange, a UK-based institutional-grade crypto derivatives exchange, announced that it has closed a US$ 5 million token raise from existing and new investors where Swiss venture firm Blockchain Valley Ventures (BVV) backed and advised the former on their token raise.

Read More »

PayPal Allows American Customers to Use Cryptocurrencies for Purchases

2021-03-31

by

2021-03-31

PayPal announced the launch of Checkout with Crypto, where US customers will be able to choose to check out with crypto seamlessly. Building on the ability to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency with PayPal, customers using Checkout with Crypto can check out safely and easily, converting cryptocurrency holdings to fiat currency, with certainty of value and no additional transaction fees.

Read More »

Austrian Crypto Broker Bitpanda Secures Unicorn Status With $170 Million Funding

2021-03-17

by

2021-03-17

Bitpanda, an Austrian digital investment platform dealing with cryptocurrency, announced that it has closed it Series B funding round with an investment of $170 million and attained unicorn status with a valuation of $1.2 billion. The funding round was led by Valar Ventures with participation from partners of DST Global. Bitpanda had also previously secured $52 million during its Series A from Valar Ventures. The Series B was signed last week and...

Read More »

God, Bitcoin, and Asymmetric Bets

2021-02-22

by

2021-02-22

Blaise Pascal was a brilliant mathematician, inventor of the calculating machine, and pioneer of probabilistic theory during the 17th century. His philosophical works were published posthumously under the title of Pensées.

Read More »

Digital Asset Adoption Gains Momentum With US$26 Billion in Bitcoin Transactions

2021-02-19

by

2021-02-19

Bitcoin’s recent price surge has accelerated institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies leading to institutional investor pouring an estimated US$26 billion into bitcoin over the past eight months, an analysis by SNGLR Group shows.

Read More »