The market sell-off of May 19th

Market sell-off of May 19th Bitcoin

The sentiment in the crypto market had been extremely bullish for quite some time with the market seeing a clear uptrend since March of 2020.

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De cryptomarkt is nog jong. Wat voor innovaties in ontwikkeling geldt in het begin is het zoeken, vooral voor overheden en instanties.

New: Icoinic launches DeFi Fund

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Met de lancering van het DeFi Fund biedt Icoinic toegang tot de nieuwste innovatie in de wereld van beleggingsfondsen: het handelen in gedecentraliseerde financiële assets, ofwel DeFi-assets. Met het succes van het eerste Algorithmic Fund behoort Icoinic tot de top high-frequency traders van Europa. Het rendement over 2020 was maar liefst 278 procent, dit jaar […]

Crypto and the Dutch Banking Association

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The sentiment of the current financial overlords is that crypto is starting to get too big to ignore. We’ve seen multiple regulatory institutions easing up on regulations and starting to approve products and funds for the cryptocurrency markets. Grayscale was approved by the FINRA to publicly quote its Grayscale Digital Large Cap fund (GDLCF) on over-the-counter (OTC) […]

The difficulty of designing CBDC

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The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and a group of seven central banks, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, Sveriges Riksbank, and the Swiss National Banks released a report on Central Banks Digital Currencies (CBDCs). The report outlined the feasibility of CBDCs. […]

Zombie companies on the rise

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In previous blogs, we have discussed how the government debt is becoming an increasing problem for the US economy and why the new stimulus by the Federal Reserve is increasing fiat risk. But there is another problem that is becoming increasingly relevant: zombie companies. Definitions used for this term vary somewhat, but they are often […]

Holding FIAT is becoming increasingly riskier

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COVID-19 has had a severe impact on global economies. During the second quarter of this year, the US economy is estimated to have shrunk by an annualized 31.7%. That economies would be hit hard was well-known. It was thought by many that the rapid economic decline would be followed by a rapid recovery, also known […]

Are traditional banks going to accept Crypto?

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published a letter, nearly 2 months ago, clarifying the authority of national banks and federal savings associations to provide cryptocurrency custody services for its customers.  Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian P. Brooks said “From safe-deposit boxes to virtual vaults, we must ensure banks can meet […]