Happy Belated Birthday, Bitcoin!
Brad Yasar Brad Yasar

Happy Belated Birthday, Bitcoin!

It’s been a tumultuous 12 years of existence in this weary world for the first mover of all blockchain projects, the first cryptocurrency in history, the most spectacularly profitable, outrageously volatile asset in modern times, Bitcoin. Otherwise, lovingly referred by its ticker symbol by friends and colleagues BTC for short.

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What Today’s Financial Uncertainty Means for Cryptocurrency Investors
Brad Yasar Brad Yasar

What Today’s Financial Uncertainty Means for Cryptocurrency Investors

Here in the Wild West World of blockchain technology and FinTech, we who are genuinely invested - not just literally in tokens, but philosophically in the technology behind it - have quickly learned to keep cool heads and stay agile to be adaptive as the cryptocurrency market swings in manic depressive mayhem.

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The New 'Bretton Woods Moment'​ and How Bitcoin Will Play a Part
Brad Yasar Brad Yasar

The New 'Bretton Woods Moment'​ and How Bitcoin Will Play a Part

A lot has been said recently about a “New Bretton Woods Moment,” as proclaimed to save the world’s monetary system, by International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. What does it all mean, and what could such a moment hold for the world’s first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin?

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What are “Wrapped” Crypto Tokens & Why are They so Important?
Brad Yasar Brad Yasar

What are “Wrapped” Crypto Tokens & Why are They so Important?

In step with the meteoric rise of DeFi platforms, today’s “wrapped” tokens, especially wrapped BTC (“WBTC”), is an intriguing phenomenon. A “wrapped token” is an asset on the Ethereum blockchain matched 1:1 with an underlying asset, which need not share the same blockchain, or as a physical asset like gold, be on a blockchain at all.

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How DeFi Will Help the Unbanked Worldwide
Brad Yasar Brad Yasar

How DeFi Will Help the Unbanked Worldwide

Of a global population of over 7.8 billion, it was estimated that 1.7 billion people have limited or no access to financial services, and therefore limited or no access to many corresponding opportunities. Simply receiving and sending money to friends or family becomes an impossibility for the “unbanked.”

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