Bitcoin beyond 2020: Can proof-of-work sustain life after block rewards?
A Bank of International Settlements report concludes that bitcoin's liquidity is "set to fall dramatically" due to decreasing mining rewards and low retail use if it doesn't migrate to another consensus model such as proof-of-stake. Rootstock (RSK) is a Lightning-like sidechain that builds a bitcoin-pegged coin and smart contract utility on top of the bitcoin security layer to create a high-throughput currency that keeps bitcoin relevant as a medium of exchange and keeps network mining profitable.
Why we could start considering crypto market rotations and liquidity flows
As the breadth of crypto asset sectors is becoming as diverse as that in traditional markets, it is potentially a good time to consider sectoral rotations and liquidity flows during certain stages of market cycles — with the goal being to develop an overarching strategy and roadmap for selecting the right crypto assets at the right time, to invest or trade in.
Crypto Market Forecast: The week ahead, 14th January
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Crypto Market Forecast: The week ahead, 7th January
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Tax Tips and Strategies for Cryptocurrency Investors
In a few months, it’s tax season again, and for holders looking for big savings, tax planning begins now. Doing taxes can be taxing, outside of the stress of interests and penalties; for the crypto holder or investor, these tax tips and strategies will likely be beneficial.
How blockchain is reshaping our economic, environmental and social orders Pt III
To conclude the Blockchain Beyond 2020 series, we look at how digital currencies and token-economics are being used to reorganize human behavior and ideals around money and how the wealth gap may be addressed with alternative digital currencies that provide a form of basic income to provide more financial independence.
Crypto users double despite market crash, claims Cambridge report
The number of crypto services users nearly doubled in the first three quarters of 2018, claims a new report from the University of Cambridge — suggesting that despite the "crypto winter", the ecosystem continues to develop.
How blockchain is reshaping our economic, environmental and social orders Pt II
In part II we explore how complementary digital currencies are going to play a large role in paying off the "climate debt" that governments are too indebted to borrow in their own currency to pay for, nor willing to slow economic growth for given the risk of losing political power.
How blockchain is reshaping our economic, environmental and social orders Pt I
In this series we look past 2020 to what the future holds for crypto beyond fiat-pegged stable coins and speculative prices to the original ethos of crypto and the cypherpunk movement - to redesign our economic, social, political and environmental structures . We also explore why we need to decouple the dual role of store of value from medium of exchange from common currency in the future and why bitcoin and cryptocurrencies provide a unique opportunity to break the debt cycle created by fiat and banks.
Commodity coins could prove a better long-term hedge than fiat stablecoins
While fiat-backed stablecoins are the antithesis of crypto's original tenet to be immune to the inflationary and political forces that debase fiat, commodity-backed crypto could be a genuine innovation as a hedge against inflation and, indeed, fiat.
NEO moves closer to decentralization with consensus node applicants
NEO proposes to accelerate the creation of a “smart economy” with its ecosystem that allows organizations to launch and operate an independent node.
How digital currencies will shape the future of geopolitics
The US dollar's global reserve status is becoming precarious as competing superpowers China, Russia and Europe seek alternatives to the SWIFT system and trade settlement. China has harnessed blockchain and is close to a digital national currency that will integrate with national surveillance - could this be the largest market for privacy coins?
UK joins Japan and US with plans to update crypto tax guidance
Tax authorities from influential jurisdictions are planning to make life easier for crypto tax-payers
Numbers that count: Debunking the fundamentals of BTC money flow
We are still in the early days of research into the effects of bitcoin transaction volumes on-chain and on-exchange to filter one from the other and sort the spam from the valid transactions. While there isn't universal agreement on one pure metric we can at least acknowledge some of the fallacies of measuring transaction volume and Bitcoin supply/demand and look at the latest efforts from various resources to gauge real volume
Word on the Street: Waves from Chinese exchange crackdown yet to be felt
After outlawing all the cryptocurrency-related companies in the country, the Chinese government is closing the last avenue citizens had to getting their hands on digital assets, blocking overseas exchanges.
Battle of the exchanges: There will be blood
In the crypto world, building a large network is the key to survival for any blockchain-based company. However, the importance of the network effect isn't only applicable to the blockchain projects themselves, but also to the exchanges on which these coins are traded. In an ever-expanding industry, the future is bright for those exchanges which can successfully harness the network effect. And for those that can't — not so much.
