What Can You Buy With a Digital Ruble?
For that matter, what can you buy with a digital ruble? Russia is in the planning stage for this with legislation just passed by their upper house of parliament. Once the law comes into effect the Bank of Russia will begin tests of their new digital currency.
Incredible Shrinking Binance
Will Binance deal with their regulatory issues, regroup and find a new niche in the crypto business world? Or are we going to see the incredible shrinking Binance?
Effect of a Soft Landing on DeFi
This is significant for folks working in decentralized finance as it was the series of Fed rate increases that brought on crypto winter and caused the collapse of many DeFi businesses. Just what will be the effect of a soft landing on DeFi?
Should You Invest in a Bull or a Bear Market?
With a sufficiently long holding period pre-crash investments catch up to the long term average. Having said that, many fortunes have been made by those who bought good stocks at steep discounts at the trough of a stock market crash. So, should you invest in a bull or a bear market?
Spot Bitcoin ETF Yawn
When the Bitcoin futures ETF was started in early 2021 it had a lot of interest and may have contributed to the peak Bitcoin price that year, before the token fell into the abyss of crypto winter. This time around the response to a spot Bitcoin ETF is a big yawn from the crypto community.
Will Altcoins Recover After Ripple Decision?
The court issued what amounted to a split decision that caused the XRP token price to double in one day. Will altcoins recover after the Ripple decision or will there be more to the story?
Ripple Price Doubles With Court Ruling
Ripple and the rest of the crypto community are saying that they won. The SEC says they won. Meanwhile the Ripple price doubled with the court ruling.
Ether NFT Wash Trading
The reason that anyone investing in or trading NFTs should be concerned is that Ether NFT wash trading distorts the market and gives the appearance of a lot more interest in a given NFT than actually exists.
Investing With a Deflationary China
There is a very real risk that China will slip into a prolonged period of deflation similar to what happened with Japan at the end of the 1980s. Investing with a deflationary China will require new strategies for investors accustomed to a steadily growing Chinese economy.
Where Did the FTX Money Go?
At lot of people lost a lot of money in the FTX fiasco. $8 billion is the number generally quoted for how much was missing from FTX accounts. Where did the FTX money go?