Category: Adoption

Bitcoin is peerless thanks to early distribution, CoinMetrics analysts argue

Bitcoin’s experimental launch contributed to its dispersion among the masses.

November 10, 2020
Video: Valiu And Protecting Wealth In South America

Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast On this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Simon Chamorro to discuss Valiu, a tool for protecting Colombian pesos from inflation and remit funds to friends and family in Venezuela, which has been hit heavily by hyperinflation. On its website,…

November 10, 2020
Here’s why this billionaire investor just flipped bullish on Bitcoin

Another day, another billionaire investor foraying into Bitcoin. Billionaire macro investor Stanley Druckenmiller is the latest legendary investor to flip bullish on the cryptocurrency. In a recent interview, he echoed what many of his peers – including Paul Tudor Jones and others – have been stating throughout the past few months regarding Bitcoin’s merits as…

November 9, 2020
Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini admits Bitcoin is a “partial” store of value

One of the most staunch critics of Bitcoin over the past few years has been Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini. The New York University professor, known for predicting the 2008 Great Recession, has crusaded against the cryptocurrency market due to its affinity to online crime and scams. Roubini has also branded blockchain “vaporware,” despite many of…

November 8, 2020
Will PayPal’s crypto integration bring crypto to the masses? Experts answer

Experts in blockchain technology and crypto take on the question: Could PayPal’s crypto integration help mass adoption?

November 8, 2020
Crypto ATMs continue to boom globally in 2020

New machines are now coming online at a rate of nearly 1 per hour

November 8, 2020
Crypto entrepreneurship is like climbing Mt Everest

Guest post by Thierry Gilgen, CEO of MachinaTrader. We are living in a special moment in time. There are not one or two technologies simultaneously changing the world, but five or so: AI and machine learning, blockchain, IoT, autonomous mobility, and data science. Each of them could have as big an impact as the steam…

November 8, 2020
Crypto fund’s unlikely strategy: Taking on Bitcoin and S&P 500 returns

A crypto fund is buying up Bitcoin at a major discount in a high-risk, high-return game. What are the odds of outperforming BTC itself?

November 7, 2020
The U.S. government owns $1b in Bitcoin—and some don’t think they should sell it

Undoubtedly one of the biggest crypto stories this past week aside from the price action was the news that the U.S. government had made a monumental move in the Silk Road case. Although the details remain sparse, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had seized $1 billion worth of Bitcoin and Bitcoin forks…

November 7, 2020
DeFi needs real-world adoption, not just disruptive pioneering

Crypto and DeFi remain mostly a subculture in the world of global finance. What does the industry need to do to achieve real, mass adoption?

November 7, 2020