On 1 November, 2019 Christine Lagarde takes on the role of President of the European Central Bank (ECB). I am predicting that under her leadership the ECB will seek to develop a digital EUR. This is almost a certainty. A stretch prediction is that some cryptocurrenc...
This excellent research report from German bank Bayern LB sets out the importance of stock-to-flow ratios to the valuation of assets and looks at this in the context of valuations for Gold, Silver, Palladium, Platinum and Bitcoin.
For the first time since I started this blog I have not posted a story for over a month. I have been away. But also there is so much happening that I did not find a specific topic give me focus. The macro economic and geopolitical issues the world is facing at the mome...
There are so many interesting thoughts and questions around central banks issuing digital currency (fiat) that it is hard to know where to start. Luckily, we have the wonderfull Laura Shin who collects our thoughts and ask the questions we would like to ask.
The week of 15 July 2019 was one of the most interesting weeks I have had thus far in my journey along the crypto path...and I have had a few interesting weeks. We had the POTUS tweet about Bitcoin and crypto, we had the Chair of the US Federal Reserve make comments a...
The story of Libra coin is going to evolve every day/week over the next few years and I plan to document it's evolution with a series of posts of which this is the first one.
This post focuses on the monetary policy aspect of Libra v Bitcoin.
I thought you would like to know what the cryptosphere is thinking about Facebook Coin 'Libra'. There are a lot of different views out there but I will do my best to summarise.
Let me start by introducing you to Naomi Brockwell aka 'bitcoin girl'. Naomi lives in NYC an...
