Decentralized finance makes it easier for virtually anyone to take advantage of financial markets without the need for a bank, but there are new risks as well.
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Financial regulators are increasingly concerned about stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency tied to an asset like the US dollar.
Make 10,000 sheets of coloured dots and give them each a corresponding NFT, and what do you have?
Some alternative cryptocurrencies, called ‘altcoins’, demand far less electrical power than bitcoin.
Both Spacs and bitcoin went rocketing up in price only to come crashing back down. And that’s not all they have in common.
Operators like BlockFi and Nexo offer rates that are north of 9%.
El Salvador has become the first nation in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender. So what exactly is President Nayib Bukele thinking?
El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. This is a noble idea, but unworkable in the long term.
Chinese bitcoin mining could consume as much energy as the whole of the UK by 2024.
It’s time to shift focus away from bitcoin and to pay more attention to other blockchain projects promising to make real contributions to the world.
Tesla’s stance has also shone the spotlight further onto the carbon footprint of cryptocurrency – an issue that will not go away soon.
Bitcoin prices have plunged after the world’s second richest person tweeted that Tesla would no longer accept the cryptocurrency.
The digital yuan could make transactions faster, cheaper and more transparent, but there are dangers for the global economy.
Bitcoin has been widely criticised for its enormous energy footprint. A new cryptocurrency may solve that problem, but might bring some unintended consequences.
Until the late 1800s, moments of widespread high-risk financial gambling weren’t considered manias but the results of individual actors, who bore responsibility for the disastrous results.
NatWest and HSBC are restricting customers in their crypto-dealings.
America’s number one crypto exchange is floating via a direct listing.
NFTs don’t even exist in the real world, but the market around them has a big effect on the planet.
If you look at the reasons people buy art, almost none of them have to do with the physical work.
Welcome to the great silicon famine of 2021. And 2022. And 2023. And …
Principales colaboradores
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Law, University of East London
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Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Financial Technology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Professor of Finance & Financial Technology, ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Assistant Professor in International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Hon Associate Professor. Research interests - AI and the law; Social relationships of trust; Sustainable futures, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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University Fellow in AI and Human Decision Making, University of Salford
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University
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Professor of Finance, The University of Western Australia
