Tagged: nicholas pelecanos

January 5, 2021 @ 2:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin is bouncing around all-time highs, trading at around $33,500. For Bitcoin bulls, the recent rise in price for BTC has been greeted with a lot of backslapping and comments about how it was inevitable. Many observers point to the rising demand for Bitcoin as… Read More

September 10, 2020 @ 11:11 am By JD Alois  |  

  Mastercard revealed this week that it has launched a central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) testing platform. The goal is to enable central banks to test national digital currencies. Many central banks are testing or investigating CBDCs including China’s digital yuan that is currently being… Read More

June 24, 2020 @ 2:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital assets continue to gain traction in the real world. While it will take some time, it is hard to ignore that more institutional money is creeping in and blockchain technology is being viewed as a viable tool to create and manage digital assets including… Read More

April 10, 2020 @ 12:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

It will take some time to fully understand the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic but clearly the economic fallout will be profound. Markets have tanked, default risks are rising and unemployment is moving up rapidly in a historic fashion. Simultaneously governments everywhere are moving… Read More