Friday, July 18, 2025

“Bitcoin is not a F*cking Systemic Hedge If You Hold Your Bitcoin at a Financial Institution”

CoinShares’ chief strategy officer Meltem Demirors shared her view on how the latest crisis in the oil market will impact the ever-changing narratives around Bitcoin. Changing narratives According to Demirors, the recent crash in oil prices is a watershed moment which will change forever the narratives in the investment world. As she

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Mining Sector Sees Extreme Volatility Amid Coronavirus and Crash During Q1

Crypto research firm, TokenInsight, has published a report covering the crypto mining industry during the first quarter of 2020. The report emphasized swings in Bitcoin (BTC)’s hash rate and the phasing out of older ASIC models.However, volatility has had a greater impact on Chinese miners — with Antminer S9s becoming

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Bitcoin Sextortion: Scams Using Email, Videos, Passwords to Extort BTC

Millions of people worldwide have received sextortion scam emails in 2020 asking for bitcoin. These bitcoin sextortion schemes sometimes include recipients’ passwords to make the threat more real. The authorities have advised what to do if you receive a bitcoin sextortion email.Bitcoin Sextortion Scams Proliferate GloballyThe number of people

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COVID-19, Gold Demand and the Gold-Backed Stablecoin Opportunity

When markets are bleeding, investors turn to gold. The celebrated precious metal and former reserve standard of the world’s monetary system is valuable for several reasons, but primarily because it is scarce. So scarce, that supply-chain problems with physical gold delivery are manifesting as demand surges amid the COVID-19 financial chaos.Why

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Tracing Global Meat Related Risks With Blockchain Amid COVID-19

COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, with United States meat producers being the latest victims of the pandemic in a “cascading series of events,” including shutting down of the food service sector, universities and school lunch programs, all likely to impact millions of Americans.Meat processing plants around the U.S., which emerged

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