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Is Nvidia a Good Investment?
The Nvidia stock surge brought its market cap over $1 trillion. Is Nvidia a good investment still or has all the short term profit been made? Will Nvidia thrive over the long term or will new tech come in and pass it by?
Japanese Bank to Issue Stablecoins
Now we see that a Japanese bank is to issue stablecoins. Mitsubishi UFG is the biggest bank in Japan and they are going to use their own platform to issue stablecoins linked to various international currencies.
Purpose-bound Versus Speculative Digital Money
The original purpose of crypto when Bitcoin was invented was to allow people to make financial transactions via the internet. Now countries like Singapore are going to be treating differently purpose-bound versus speculative digital money.
How Contagious Are Crypto Regulatory Problems?
Now the next challenge to the crypto world is a regulation storm led by the Securities and Exchange Commission. How contagious are crypto regulatory problems? Are they enough to plunge crypto into another prolonged winter?
New Regulation-compliant Crypto Exchange
A harbinger of things to come is a new regulation-compliant crypto exchange backed by Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets and Charles Schwab Corp.
Ways to Hedge Interest Rate Risk
Managers at SVB did not expect rates to keep going up, they purchased long term bonds in early 2022 when interest rates were much lower than they became by the spring of 2023. The value of their bonds plummeted as rates went up which, in turn, effectively reduced their reserves. When there was a run on the bank SVB collapsed. There were ways to hedge interest rate risk which SVB did not take advantage of.
Is Crypto Going the Way of the Dinosaurs?
On a lesser scale and affecting economics instead of all life on earth, regulation has hit the crypto world and we wonder, is crypto going the way of the dinosaurs?
Crypto Gets What It Asked For
As crypto gets what it asked for, companies like Binance and Coinbase see their business models under attack. It is possible that complying with what the SEC wants could put Coinbase out of business and remove Binance from the US and other nations completely.
Why Is Bitcoin’s Market Share Growing?
Why is Bitcoin’s market share growing, along with Ethereum and Tether, while pretty much everyone else is seeing their portion of the crypto pool of value shrink?
DeFi Lending Rates Versus TradFi Rates
In comparing DeFi lending rates versus TradFi rates, how are they set, how much do they fluctuate, and how do these rates affect business operations within the given financial system?