Cryptocurrency Insights

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Chris Harmse VP at BVNK

Why blockchain-based banking is better banking

Cryptocurrency-based financial service providers are rebuilding banking from the bottom up. Unsurprisingly, they’ve made a few improvements. It’s safe to say the traditional banking sector doesn’t get a lot of love from its customers. Consumers and business customers alike often view dealings with banks as a necessary evil. There are good reasons f...

07 April 2022 /wealth /crypto

David Ritter Director, Financial Services Strategy at CI&T

Can crypto ever take off as a mainstream currency?

In just over a decade, cryptocurrencies have enjoyed remarkable growth. We’ve all heard the story of the crypto miner trading 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas back in May 2010. Today, those same bitcoins would be worth around $391.7 million—that’s some expensive mozzarella. But it’s these unpredictable peaks and troughs in value that make cryptocurr...

06 April 2022 /payments /crypto

Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs

Cryptocurrency wallets security

Data security is an extremely complex industry. Even the most cutting edge applications, like blockchain and cryptocurrency wallets, are subject to “boring” data security threats. Especially because in the cryptocurrency context reputation equals costs. To eat an elephant one bite at a time, let’s have a think about the first and foremost things t...

22 March 2022 /security /crypto

Retired Member 

How Crypto Firms Can Comply with Ongoing Sanctions

As top policymakers continue ringing alarm bells about Russian entities attempting to dodge sanctions with cryptocurrencies, it is pertinent for the crypto industry to stay in line with the latest regulatory developments in order to ensure that the sector does not breach any applicable sanctions regulations, which would only invite potentially he...

21 March 2022 /regulation /crypto

Shane Rodgers CEO at PDX Coin

Crypto Adoption Won’t Grow Until the Cowboys Go Home and the Industry Grows Up

The crypto market is shooting itself in the foot. Every day, millions of investors interact in good faith with crypto exchanges and market tracking sites but are stymied and even abused by those very same organizations who take their money. Unreliable data, usurious fees, and poor service have resulted in investor distrust and cynicism. But there ...

15 March 2022 /regulation /crypto

Ilman Shazhaev Founder, CEO at Farcana Metaverse

Metaverse: the Next Stop for Social Networking and Influencers?

While many projects like to pitch the metaverse as the new way to experience gaming, it’s a place for so much more. First, the metaverse developers aim to create a virtual landscape meant to replicate the real world. Concerts, promotional events, hangouts, and all kinds of interactions can all occur in the space, giving easy access to experiences ...

07 March 2022 /crypto /markets

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Is this the end for meme coins on the tube?

Anyone who has been on the London Underground in the past few years cannot have failed to notice the exhortations to invest in BitCoin, or the next big meme coin, as this freedom of information request shows. Social media is awash with celebrities and influencers flogging crypto, something that had already caught the attention of the UK's financi...

10 February 2022 /regulation /crypto

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The banking sector isn’t keeping pace with Web 3.0

Crypto-native and crypto-curious businesses are creating a massive demand for transactions that simply isn’t being met by the traditional banking sector. The banking sector has historically done a pretty good job of taking care of transactions. While cash still reigns supreme in emerging markets such as India or Indonesia, most payments in mature ...

09 February 2022 /payments /crypto

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Bitcoin to tap $200K in H2 2022

While the $100K predictions withered away during the last month of 2021, bitcoin (BTC) price predictions are starting to resurface this year. In a note to investors, Fsinsight, a Fundstrat company said that BTC could increase by almost 500% from the current price point to around $200,000. The prediction stems from Fsinsight and the firm’s head of ...

09 February 2022 /crypto

Pierre Suhrcke Venture Partner at TempoCap

Why DeFi could signal the beginning of the end of traditional Fintech

How do you know when an industry has gone from disruptor to establishment? When people start to talk about how it is going to be disrupted. That’s the situation Fintech, that fusion of financial services and technology that has helped propelled all aspects of finance into the digital era, currently finds itself in. The pure Fintech players, such a...

08 February 2022 /crypto /predictions