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Why is Bitcoin considered so ground-breaking, exactly? And why is it so revolutionary for the financial sector? A mysterious individual using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper in 2008 titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, as we saw in a previous post. (…)

No better way to define Bitcoin than to take a look at the problems it aimed to solve. We’ll look into classic problems too. No, not the trolley. It’s all about the lemonade stand this time. (…)

What is Bitcoin? Ask around and see what you get. We know Warren Buffett would answer it’s “probably rat poison squared” if asked. (…)

Today there are thousands of individual crypto currencies floating around the market. And we’ve moved well beyond bitcoin. The total value of all cryptocurrencies managed to top $2.9 trillion, with daily trading volume of over $130 billion, during phases of significant price hikes. To put (…)

There has been a recent uptick in the general public’s awareness of cryptocurrency. Whether it’s out of genuine excitement for the future possibilities of blockchain technology or out of pure FOMO (“fear of missing out”), more and more people are jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon (…)

Traditional financial institutions (“TradFi”) remain divided on whether or not cryptocurrency qualifies as a “financial asset”… (…)

So… what exactly is a cryptocurrency, then? In recent years, cryptocurrency’s popularity has skyrocketed. All over the place, not just the internet. Perhaps you’ve even seen adverts proclaiming cryptocurrency to be the future of money. And perhaps even a celebrity you esteem is endorsing them. (…)

Ethereum: A global, distributed, open-source blockchain, accessible for anyone, anywhere. At its core, Ethereum is a blockchain-based platform for developing decentralized applications (dapps), making it the second largest cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin. In contrast to Bitcoin’s focus on currency and value storage, Ethereum is a distributed (…)

DeFi isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. It offers attractive, high yield opportunities for investors. But along with that, there are a number of risks that must be considered. (…)