Since cryptocurrencies went mainstream in 2017, you can now find a wide range of investors in the crypto asset market. In this article, you will discover the seven most common type of investors you will find in new finance so that you are aware of who you are dealing with […]
One of the simplest laws of economics is the harder it is to do something, the more paying someone else to do it will cost you. This is why labor is one of the highest costs in any industry. This presents a strange problem for altcoins because as they become […]
One of the key buzzwords that is often talked about in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space is “smart contracts”. These digitized contracts are the main talking point of the Ethereum network, and the basic idea is to allow for complex types of transactions that only execute if specific conditions are […]
Investors, especially more adventurous ones, will sooner or later run into the problem of exchanging currency. You have to take a set of dollars and turn them into another set. It is expensive, it is obnoxious, it takes forever, and with altcoins, that may create a tax liability depending on […]
“Those who engage in semantic gymnastics or elaborate structuring exercises in an effort to avoid having a ‘coin’ be a ‘security’ are squarely in the crosshairs of our enforcement division.” Jay Clayton, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, testifying on February 6 before Congress. In a public statement put […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made it clear that they consider tokens sold during an initial coin offering securities for the purposes of regulatory enforcement. This means that companies launching ICOs will need to comply with SEC rules regarding public sales of these regulated financial products. Now, selling […]
When someone talks about bitcoin or other altcoins, they drop in “decentralization” as a key feature. But nobody ever bothers to explain it. What is it? Why is centralization so important to our monetary system? Why is it important that bitcoin and other altcoins upend that? In this video, featuring […]
Confused by blockchain? If you’ve got two minutes, we’ll cut out the jargon and the unnecessary technical specifications and show you how the blockchain evolved from the double-entry accounting ledgers of the medieval era, to the checkbooks of yesteryear, to the distributed, shared ledger that exists today. You’ll also learn […]
The blockchain world lies in the path of an incoming storm. With regulators picking up speed in defining regulation on altcoin products and with at least one former regulator arguing that existing major coins like Ether and Ripple may already be in violation of securities rules, the advent of new […]
In what may seem as a surprise move to some, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering a rule change that would allow a public listing of a bitcoin ETF after having shot down any hopes for a public-traded bitcoin ETF to date. According to an SEC document released […]
