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MoneyLion to Offer Crypto Investment Ahead of SPAC Merger

2021-09-16

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2021-09-16

US-based neobank MoneyLion announced the launch of its new cryptocurrency capabilities, enabling customers to buy and sell digital currencies within its app. MoneyLion said that eligible customers will initially be able to buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as round-up their debit card purchases in Bitcoin.

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Blockchain-Based Invoice Factoring Firm Hiveterminal Expands to DACH Region

2021-09-15

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2021-09-15

Blockchain-based invoice factoring platform Hiveterminal announced that it has expanded to the DACH region as part of its Europe growth plans. Hiveterminal aims to start cultivating relationships with Swiss-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who need fast and continuous access to liquidity without going through the hassle of applying for bank financing.

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When Should Governments Ban Bitcoin?

2021-08-03

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2021-08-03

When Should Governments Ban Bitcoin? When should governments ban new technologies?

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Nassim Taleb Now Calls Bitcoin Worthless, Too Volatile to be a Useful Currency or Store of Value

2021-07-23

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2021-07-23

Not only does bitcoin fail to satisfy the notion of being a currency without a government, but the cryptocurrency is also not a reliable inflation hedge nor a safe haven investment, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a probability researcher and former quantitative trader, says in a recent paper.

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Facebook Pay To Be Available to Online Retailers Starting With Shopify

2021-07-21

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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.

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

2021-07-09

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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.

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German Stock Exchange Snaps up Swiss Cryptocurrency Firm

2021-06-30

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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.

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Bitcoin Upgraded from Vacuous Child to Rebellious Adult

2021-06-14

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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).

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

2021-06-11

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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.

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

2021-06-08

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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.

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Price Discovery is Alive and Well in Crypto

2021-06-08

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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.”

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

2021-06-02

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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.

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

2021-05-26

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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.

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Bitcoin Versus Gold: A Tired Debate

2021-05-19

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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.

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Charlie Munger on Bitcoin

2021-04-28

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Charlie Munger & Warren Buffett give investing advice for young investors. Buffett & Munger are considered two of the greatest value investors of all time and built Berkshire Hathaway into one of the most well respected companies in the world.

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

2021-04-27

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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.

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Swissquote Adds 9 Additional Cryptocurrencies for Retail Trading

2021-04-22

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2021-04-22

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

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Shocking Prediction: The Price of Bitcoin by 2031 – Robert Breedlove

2021-04-22

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The simple definition of inflation is when prices rise and the purchasing power of a currency drops. It means that you can buy less with your money than you used to be able to.

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Societe Generale Issues Structured Products as Security Token on Public Blockchain

2021-04-20

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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.

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

2021-04-14

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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...

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