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Canada Joins Lebanon and Turkey in ‘Bitcoin’s Marketing Team’

The Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada has claimed that banks in the country could be asked to immediately freeze or suspend the bank accounts of individuals in the country, as the “truck drivers’ protest” over Canadian COVID-19 restrictions continues.The...

, by Tim Alper

Canadian Trucker Protesters Eye Bitcoin Amid Court-Ordered Fund Freeze

The government of Canada’s Ontario has obtained an order from the province's Superior Court of Justice that allows freezing some USD 9.4m in funds collected through crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo for the 'trucker protest' -- encouraging calls by some of the protest’s supporters...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Pandemic Has Accelerated Crypto Market’s Transformation Into Commodity Market – Research

The cryptocurrency market is beginning to consolidate and is increasingly similar to a commodity market, with an increased correlation between cryptos coinciding with the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

IMF Warns of Dangers of Fed’s Rate Rise, Brazil Says Inflation ‘Won’t Be Temporary in West’

Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has warned that the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s next interest rate hike could “throw cold water on nations with high levels of dollar debt” – and their recovery from the COVID-19...

, by Tim Alper

Selling Hits Crypto Market Again as New COVID Variant Spooks Traders

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, by Fredrik Vold

COVID ‘Hotspot’ Claims after Some Miami Bitcoin Conference Attendees Fall Ill

The recent Miami Bitcoin 2021 conference has been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons – after a number of attendees tested positive for COVID-19, with some reporting they had been hospitalized with symptoms.Among those taken ill after the event last weekend were Eric Wall, of...

, by Tim Alper

COVID Forces Chinese Internet Cafes to Turn into Crypto Mining Hubs

Chinese internet cafe owners are turning their businesses into crypto mining centers as social distancing measures continue to bite in the Middle Kingdom.According to The Time Weekly, via Sina, a huge number of the 24-hour internet cafes, created primarily for PC gamers, closed down in 2020 –...

, by Tim Alper

Accidental Gift To ETH Miners, Cardano Rallies On Coinbase Pro News + More

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Mining newsNvidia, an American tech company, confirmed that it has accidentally removed the hash rate limiter on its RTX 3060 graphic...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

The Evidence Is in on Negative Interest Rate Policies

Luis Brandao-Marques is a Senior Economist in the Global Financial Stability Analysis Division in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Gaston Gelos is Assistant Director in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where he heads the...

, by Gaston Gelos

Bill Gates-backed, Blockchain, AI, and Big Data-powered Virus-fighting App Launched

The full gamut of industry 4.0 technologies, blockchain included, may need to be used in tandem with one another in order to fight back against the coronavirus pandemic – and that theory could well be put to the test as a new app featuring Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data and blockchain...

, by Tim Alper

Man Will Give 25% of Lost Bitcoin to COVID Relief if He Can Search Dump for USD 296M Haul

British media outlets have once again become interested in the case of a Wales-based IT professional who said he threw out a hard drive containing around BTC 7,500 (USD 296m) and who wants to search a landfill for the device, pledging millions of dollars worth of reward to coronavirus charities if...

, by Tim Alper

Young Investors Drive Increased Aussie Bitcoin & Crypto Investments

Younger Australian investors are driving the country's increasing crypto ownership, accompanied by rising investments by high-end crypto holders, a recent survey showed.18.4% of respondents said they own some form of cryptoasset, up from 16.8% in 2019, Independent Reserve (IR), an Australia and New...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Brave Browser Chief Courts Social Media Rage with COVID-19 Comments

The mastermind of the crypto-friendly Brave Browser, Brave (BAT) CEO Brendan Eich, has waded into a fresh controversy that has ignited social media once again – this time taking aim at the United States’ top epidemiologist.Brave has enjoyed a relatively strong year as crypto has boomed...

, by Tim Alper

COVID-19 Further Exposes Inequalities in the Global Financial System

Ramya Vijaya, Professor of Economics, Stockton University. _____To stem the economic fallout from COVID-19, developed countries have injected an unprecedented USD 9 trillion into their economies. The International Monetary Fund has recommended sustained fiscal support, emphasizing greater spending...

, by Ramya Vijaya

Why Crypto Will Outperform Gold and Gov. Bonds in a Post-COVID World

Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...

, by Bruce Ng

Undetected Inflation: Your Fiat Money Devalues Faster Than You Think

Marshall Reinsdorf is a senior economist in the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Statistics Department and past president of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. ____Lockdowns, working from home, and physical distancing caused people to spend larger shares of...

, by Marshall Reinsdorf

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