By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 21, 202003:54 PM Eastern
Google Trends is a service started by the internet search giant to analyze the popularity of specific terms, particular to region and by language, over time.
It’s a pretty cool tool based as it...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 16, 202003:37 PM Eastern
DeFi — decentralized finance — is basically borrowing, lending and asset trading on the blockchain — with no banker, broker, or market-maker in between.
Because of this, DeFi transactions are...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 14, 202006:21 PM Eastern
The simple fact that he has nearly a million followers on Twitter but follows no one would make him one of that social media platform’s most unique content creators.
But Naval Ravikant is also...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 9, 202011:51 AM Eastern
Previously, we showed you how to open accounts on Kraken and Coinbase, which are both major, widely-used American cryptocurrency exchanges.
But neither of them accommodate the small,...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 7, 202006:13 PM Eastern
Folks, we have an amends to make.
Here’s how we led the July 27 issue of Weiss Crypto Alert:
Folks, the internet giveth, and the internet taketh away.
For Twitter, it’s that times a...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 2, 202001:30 PM Eastern
Cardano (ADA, Tech/Adoption Grade “B-”) is a third-generation crypto that aims to knock Ethereum off its perch as the world's no. 1 smart-contract platform.
And it's been a great investment — up...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 31, 202002:56 PM Eastern
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, from basically the very beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, has been using the phrase “no limit” to describe restraints on his institution’s lending capacity.
...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 26, 202011:35 AM Eastern
Synthetix (SNX) is a decentralized exchange where you can trade just about any asset with no broker or banker as a middleman — and therefore enjoy vastly lower transaction costs and far less time...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 24, 202003:00 PM Eastern
It’s not an exaggeration to say that “decentralization” is the whole point of cryptocurrency.
Satoshi Nakomoto published the famous “white paper” in October 2008 — in the midst of the Global...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 19, 202011:43 AM Eastern
DeFi stands for Decentralized Finance. Basically, it's borrowing, lending and trading financial assets on the blockchain.
With no traditional intermediary — bank, broker or stock-exchange —...