With the fall of the Wall and the collapse of communism, people lucky enough to live under capitalism were finally assured of what our leaders had long told us: the West is the best. The end of the Cold War saw Western values sweep the…

NFTs are special types of tokens that reside on a distributed ledger and hold a digital asset, such as a document, picture or movie. There has recently been an explosion in their popularity, most notably in sports, art and music. We explore their key characteristics…

Concerns about financial bubbles in cryptoassets have intensified, given the rapid and unprecedented rise in their market capitalisation (currently at almost $2 trillion) and return of high volatility.   The very existence of bubbles in financial markets is somewhat controversial in the academic literature. In…

If we should never believe anything until it has been officially denied, then get ready to do your Christmas shopping in bitcoin.   Last week Amazon denied claims from an ‘insider’ that the company will accept bitcoin payments by the end of this year, and…

Tom joins to review Bitcoin’s price new range, the fall of fees despite 40k support, the state of mining and more.

Nick joins us to wrap up the week, chew on the hottest news and take a look at the sentiment and technical charts for ETH and BTC. GET AI-DRIVEN SENTIMENT INDICATORS NOW AT tradethechain.com

During 2020 and in most recent times institutions have been each time more drawn towards the possibilities of the cryptocurrency market and blockchain development. Being a fairly new market currently maturing, we now wonder how the infrastructure provided by the ecosystem catching up to institutions…

“What if?” is the dumbest question…when it’s about the past. What if I’d got into Oxbridge? What if I’d taken that job? What if I’d boarded the train before the sliding doors closed? Stop daydreaming about what can’t be undone. Look to the future instead….

This article explores the aggregate performance of cryptoasset funds since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, we compare the performance of cryptoasset funds against the raw returns of the aggregate stock market and “traditional” hedge funds. 1. Introduction The global health crisis originated…

Nick joins us to wrap up the week, chew on the hottest news and take a look at the sentiment and technical charts for ETH and BTC.

Superfluid is a real-time settlement protocol built for DeFi. Using the Ethereum blockchain, this startup is focused on creating the first capital efficient gross settlement solution. This proposal highlights the flaws of today’s money transfer system across different types of money, including digital currencies. Francesco…

Money talks. It is the universal language of business, but when it comes to financial institutions, only a few, all-powerful actors have a voice. And a system that only suits the establishment stifles innovation and prevents the creation of new models and applications that would…