This week we cover: Bitcoin halving DeFi adoption Central Bank Digital Currencies Bitcoin’s privacy Ethereum 2.0 Facebook’s Libra project Safe haven and recession-proof status COBINHOOD SHUTS DOWN OR SHUTS FOR AUDIT NBA PLAYERS CONTRACT TOKENIZATION SUIT ON TETHER AND BITFINEX MANIPULATION EVERSTAKE AND CHAINLINK FEAR, GREED AND MENTALITY ARE YOU READY TO RUN WITH THE...Continue Reading

ETH 2.0 STAKING STRUCTURE ROI ETH 2.0, due out in 2020, brings with it the proof-of-stake switch for the second largest blockchain – Ethereum (ETH). Preliminary numbers show that: 32 ETH will be required to be staked (approximately $5,800 USD) ETH 2.0 will maintain inflation rates below 1 percent and dynamically adjust rewards scale for...Continue Reading

VITALIK STRIVING FOR MOST SECURE CHAIN This week, Vitalik Buterin,Ethereum co-founder, made a bold statement at Devcon 5 that after Ethereum transitions to Proof of Stake (PoS) “…the cost of a potential attack would make Ethereum the safer network of the two”, with bitcoin being the other. The switch from the Ethereum proof of work...Continue Reading

BITCOIN OUTPERFORMS … EVERYTHING The proof is in the numbers. Bitcoin is currently 2019’s best performing asset, even after the recent pullback to $8.2K USD from the high just shy of $13K USD achieved in June. Goldman Sachs deems Bitcoin “the best performing asset class of the year-to-date …(where)… prices have more than doubled in...Continue Reading

RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA (RBA) CUTS INTEREST RATES TO HISTORIC LOW  The official interest rate has been cut yet again by the RBA to a new record low of 0.75%. The cut of 0.25% follows similar an earlier cut in July. RBA Governor Philip Lowe highlighted the following points in his post-meeting statement: The decision...Continue Reading

What Bitcoin Network Hash Rate Actually Measures Quick Answer. Bitcoin network hash rate is the total number of SHA-256 computations per second being submitted to the Bitcoin blockchain by all miners worldwide. It is measured in exahashes per second (EH/s), where one EH/s equals one quintillion hashes per second. In August 2026 the network sits...Continue Reading

Crypto Bull Market-ARE YOU READY TO RUN WITH THE BULLS? In 2017 Bitcoin rose from under 1,000 US dollars to an all time high of about 19,783 US dollars on 17 December, moving through a series of steep, staged rallies. This article breaks down those 2017 stages, shows a 2019 attempt to project the next...Continue Reading

Ethereum Blockchain- No Vacancy Buterin told the Toronto Star that “the Ethereum blockchain is almost full”, and warned that a big organisation joining would only make it fuller and push fees higher. His proposed fix was to move away from every computer verifying every transaction, so each node would check only a small share of...Continue Reading

GUESS WHOS BAKKT, BAKKT AGAIN In 2019 three forces shaped the Bitcoin market at once. Bakkt launched physically settled Bitcoin futures, Coinbase reported heavy institutional inflows, and the United States yield curve inverted for the first time since 2007. Here is what each signal meant then and what actually happened to Bitcoin in the years...Continue Reading

FEDERAL RESERVE BUILDING ON BLOCKCHAIN? The US Federal Reserve Board has announced it will create a service called FedNowSM, a payment network “…intended to advance public policy goals for faster payments and to help support the modernization of the nation’s payment capabilities”. While the announcement doesn’t specifically reference partners or blockchain, they do mention they’ve...Continue Reading