Bitcoin Investment Via an ETF
Traders credit the news of a possible Fidelity Spot ETF with driving Bitcoin to a one year high. Is Bitcoin investment via an ETF a good idea?
Future of DeFi in a Regulated Crypto World
Crypto winter, a whole host of bankruptcies, and outright fraud have brought regulations crashing down on crypto. What is the future of DeFi in a regulated crypto world?
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?