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Regulated Bitcoin Futures In LatAm: Argentina Considers Proposal

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A petition to launch regulated Bitcoin futures and options in Argentine pesos has been submitted by Matba Rofex, Argentina’s largest futures market, to the National Securities Commission (CNV). Matba Rofex is the most prominent market for futures and options in Argentina. They currently have a BTC MtR index expressed in Argentinian Pesos (ARS) calculated every 1 minute.  They have also shown interest in the direct investments of crypto-assets and startups. This petition was just disclosed to the public by the members of Matba Rofex, but the deputy general manager of

Bitcoin’s ‘potentially serious implications’ on future of investment, global finance

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Time Stamp: October 17, 2021 10:30 PM - Modified On: October 17, 2021 - Published By:
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Crypto demand skyrocketed as inflation fears grip the market and governments continue to print more money. It is noteworthy that the US inflation picture remains worrying with the rate recently hitting a 13-year high of 5.4%. U.S. Debt Apart from these concerns, the U.S. debt is piling up. In a recent commentary piece, Avik Roy estimated the extent of debt in the US and how Bitcoin adoption can change it. He explained, “The single largest holder of U.S. debt is the U.S. government.” The situation is set to worsen, according

Cypto and DeFi opportunities are a result of this

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Equating the early days of the internet with the crypto boom is now just a hackneyed adoption analogy. However, now that it is understood, investors can use it to diversify their portfolios.  Crypto evangelist Chamath Palihapitiya recently called “Bitcoin the most profound iteration of the internet that we’ve seen.” However, this time around it is “headless”. Palihapitiya explained that Google ruled the roost at the beginning of the internet boom. And, Facebook has dominated the industry for the last 15 years, he added. Therefore, current crypto and DeFi opportunities are

Could ‘perverted’ CBDCs stop you from buying candy

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Time Stamp: October 9, 2021 5:30 AM - Modified On: October 9, 2021 - Published By:
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NSA whistleblower and journalist Edward Snowden is known to comment on Bitcoin and crypto-adoption. However, in the latest issue of his newsletter, Continuing Ed, Snowden cited an article discussing whether the U.S could mint a platinum coin worth $1 trillion. In doing so, Snowden also spurred a discussion on centralized money, CBDCs, and their possible use case as surveillance tools. On banking, bitcoin, and the future of money: a response to a governor of the Federal Reserve, Christopher J. Waller.https://t.co/720SYvqzZM — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 9, 2021 To be or not to

Powers On… Don’t worry, Bitcoin’s adoption will not be stopped

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Time Stamp: September 30, 2021 9:08 AM - Modified On: September 30, 2021 - Published By:
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In a series of  recent interviews and speeches, United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler has called the cryptocurrencies market the “Wild West” due to its unregulated and allegedly fraud-filled atmosphere, predicting that the coins were doomed to fail. Powers On… is a monthly opinion column from Marc Powers, who spent much of his 40-year legal career working with complex securities-related cases in the United States after a stint with the SEC. He is now an adjunct professor at Florida International University College of Law, where he teaches

MassMutual-owned fintech Flourish launches a new service to connect financial advisory clients with bitcoin

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A fintech company owned by MassMutual is launching a service that lets registered investment advisors (RIAs) and their clients tap into bitcoin investments.Flourish’s new service, dubbed Flourish Crypto, reflects the growing intersection between traditional finance and the digital asset space, and it’s a bet on what the company says is growing demand among financial advisory clients for bitcoin. The offering is being launched in partnership with Paxos, which is supporting the execution and custody side of things. The New York-based startup has inked key relationships with payments and financial services

Scalable network KSM is now an official validator for Guarda Wallet

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Time Stamp: September 24, 2021 12:31 PM - Modified On: September 24, 2021 - Published By:
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As the benefits of stalking are increasingly being discussed in the crypto world, Guarda announces KSM as its newest stalking validator In a press release today, non-custodial multi-platform and decentralised blockchain wallet provider Guarda Wallet announced that the firm is now an official validator for Kusuma Network, a scalable multi-chain network that is aimed at enabling cost-effective interoperability and scalability in the blockchain world. The development will enable users to stake KSM to Guarda’s validator and earn staking rewards. What is Crypto Staking?   Crypto staking refers to the act

IOV Labs Prepares to Aid Cryptocurrency Adoption in Asia

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Time Stamp: September 22, 2021 11:00 PM - Modified On: September 22, 2021 - Published By:
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Share some Bitpinas love:By Shiela BertilloIOV Labs, a Bitcoin merge-mined smart contracts platform, is arranging the adoption of cryptocurrency worldwide, starting from the emerging markets in Asia such as Vietnam and the Philippines. Through IOV Labs’ RSK, a bitcoin sidechain notable for how it has revamped the way users swap bitcoin for RBTC, and its new Powpeg system user transaction would be easier as the proof of transaction is automatically generated and vetted by a special hardware security module. And once these modules receive the proof, they distribute the RBTC to

100 years ago, Henry Ford proposed ‘energy currency’ to replace gold

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In 1921, American industrialist Henry Ford proposed the creation of an “energy currency” that could form the basis of a new monetary system — offering striking similarities to the peer-to-peer electronic cash system outlined in Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2008 Bitcoin (BTC) whitepaper. Front page of the New York Tribune dated Sunday, December 4, 1921. Source: Library of CongressBitcoin as an energy currencyOn Dec. 4, 1921, the New York Tribune published an article outlining Ford’s vision of replacing gold with an energy currency that he believed could break the banking elites’ grip on

The correlation between Bitcoin and S&P 500 has these implications

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Time Stamp: September 15, 2021 10:30 PM - Modified On: September 15, 2021 - Published By:
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The on-going corrections being witnessed in the U.S. stock market has managed to fuel in fear amongst people from the crypto space too. Even though they represent completely different spectrums of the financial landscape, both the markets have historically, maintained an on-and-off relationship. Source: TradingView Altering dynamics Interestingly, both markets have witnessed major bull and bear phases in synchronization. Earlier in March this year it was proved that the crypto space is not immune from big crashes witnessed in the traditional financial world. Right after that in April, it was

Panama’s crypto-bill will make it ‘compatible’ with crypto-assets, digital economy

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As El Salvador became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender, another Central American country took a step towards recognizing the importance of cryptocurrencies. The Republic of Panama, recently introduced its cryptocurrency bill. Panamanian Congressman Gabriel Silva, in a tweet thread, announced the same. According to him, the bill aimed to make Panama a “country compatible with the digital economy, blockchain, crypto assets, and the internet.” Moreover, use cryptocurrencies remained optional for individual citizens as well as businesses as per the said bill, which did not compel anyone to

Why this billionaire investor’s crypto-investment advice has no basis

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The “Bitcoin is a bubble” theory has been touted for as long as the digital asset has existed. Despite Bitcoin providing optimum returns over the last few years, many traditional investors have failed to find value in the crypto. Billionaire investor and subprime broker John Paulson is the latest addition to this clique. In a recent interview, Paulson called crypto a bubble that will “eventually prove to be worthless.” Paulson had famously predicted and benefited from the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 by placing a successful short position on