The minutes of the December FOMC meeting published yesterday showed that the Fed is closer to raising interest rates than investors realized. After this release, traders and investors withdrew funds from a variety of assets, including fast-growing technology sector stocks. Even treasuries turned out to be useless for investors inContinue Reading
Bitcoin and ether remain the most popular cryptocurrencies. As of the end of 2021, they accounted for more than 60% of the market capitalization of the entire asset class. Bitcoin, trading at $ 47,000 per token, was valued at $ 894 billion, while the capitalization of ether at aContinue Reading
The outgoing year was rich in events in the cryptocurrency space: some projects were influenced by media personalities, others showed growth due to the uniqueness of the product, and others did not meet expectations. Below is a rating that was formed by the Cointelegraph portal based on the capitalization andContinue Reading
The year 2021 was successful for the cryptocurrency, but not easy. Despite the collapse of the exchange rate by 53%, to $ 28,805, in the second quarter, buyers recouped all losses and updated the maximum by $ 69 thousand. It was not possible to keep the bar at aContinue Reading
On December 28, Stellar (XLM) traded at 28.62 cents per token, occupying the 27th line of the “hit parade” with a market capitalization of $ 7.097 billion. The decline to the current 26.6 cents did not change its position in the rating. Stellar debuted in 2014 as a fork ofContinue Reading
The deployment of the Ethereum 2.0 blockchain began in December 2020, and the process should be completed as early as 2022. The improved protocol just uses a faster, more efficient and less energy-intensive PoS mechanism. While Bitcoin gained more than 60% in 2021, Ethereum grew from $738,912 to $3,846,255Continue Reading
Relatively recently, bitcoin skyrocketed on the news about the readiness of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) to start accepting the leading cryptocurrency as a payment tool. However, then Elon Musk refused this step, considering that bitcoin mining contradicts Tesla’s mission as part of the energy transition. Bitcoin mining requires a lot of computingContinue Reading
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia recently struck a blow to the Biden administration’s “green” agenda, declaring his unwillingness to support the $1.9 trillion Build Back Better initiative. This project includes items that in the coming years will allow the United States to switch from fossil fuels to alternativeContinue Reading
Systemic risks are usually referred to as the danger of the collapse of the entire system, not just its individual components. This also applies to the financial system; the collapse of individual elements of the system can be localized and not allowed to spread to the entire network. TheContinue Reading
The rally of digital assets reflects a drop in demand for fiat currencies in the face of increased price pressure, reducing the purchasing power of the dollar, euro, pound, yen and most other traditional means of exchange. The value of cryptocurrencies is determined directly by supply and demand withoutContinue Reading