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There are very few investments that can deliver an infrastructure-style downside case with a venture-capital-style upside. The combination of energy arbitrage with accumulating a balance sheet of Bitcoin (BTC) can deliver this. That is why we are seeing a rush of institutions pouring into the Bitcoin mining space and starting
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The U.S. economy is less dynamic than it was two decades ago, and with this shift has come massive concentration in market power and control. Industrial concentration has risen. More workers than ever work for very large firms. A handful of major investors own a greater percentage of public companies.
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Why is the marriage of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) happening now? It’s debatable but you can make an argument that it comes back to DeFi’s favorite robo-advisor for yield: Yearn.Finance.Lately, everything in DeFi seems to link back to Yearn.Finance in some way.The excitement in DeFi has shifted
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This week’s “Long Reads Sunday” reading is from macro analyst Lyn Alden and focuses on the inflation vs. deflation debate in historical context. When monetary policy is effective versus when fiscal policy needs to take over How short-term debt cycles add up to long-term debt cycles that have very different remediesWhy long-term
Read MoreDetermining Bitcoin's (BTC) value can be more complicated than simply looking at its current market price."Most Bitcoins already cost at least $100,000, but probably more like $10 million," said Michael Goldstein, also known as Bitstein, in an Aug. 17 tweet. While Bitcoin sits around $12,000 at press time, many folks in
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As crypto traders ask why bitcoin prices shot downward, the power and influence of exchanges are at the center of the conversation. After settling in at the $10,000 price level, bitcoin (BTC) suddenly and rapidly fell more than 5 percent in an hour on Wednesday. As the market discusses possible
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Earlier this month CoinDesk Reported that the Federal Reserve believes the dollar will one day soon become a digital asset much like XRP. Then David Schwartz also spoke of creating a dollar stablecoin but instead of being backed by the FED, backed by XRP & we got excited. The key distinguishing property of
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Patrick Harker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, is confident that central bank digital currencies are inevitable.As Reuters reported on Oct. 2, Harker expressed the idea that central banks — including the Federal Reserve — will inevitably release digital currencies. Still, Harker believes that the United States should
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