Imagine a world where sending money across borders is as simple as sending a text, and where your savings aren't eroded by runaway inflation. For millions in the Global South, this isn’t a futuristic fantasy; it’s an urgent necessity. Visa’s recent deep foray into stablecoins is more than a tech...
Ripple, the Blockchain based payments firm, recently announced it was pursuing a bank charter. This decision marks a watershed in the convergence of old finance and new crypto economy. Anjali Mehra, a DeFi policy and regulatory columnist, explores what this could mean. She examines how it might shape institutional crypto...
The temptation to mine Bitcoin straight from your phone is immense. The allure of passive income, generated by the most advanced AI possible, hidden in some Swiss bank vault… it’s the siren song. Let’s skip the superficial marketing branded content and get to the deep, probing questions. Is cloud mining...
By 2025, mining Bitcoin on your phone could be a reality. As mobile-based crypto mining becomes more popular, more people are actively entering the crypto world. This is the reason why the cloud mining apps have become massively popular. They provide an incredibly easy way for users to earn cryptocurrency,...
Developed in 2012 by crypto fintech company Ripple Labs, XRP functions differently than most digital currencies. Contrary to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which are built upon the concept of mining, all 100 billion XRP were pre-mined at the very start. This pre-mined nature means that XRP cannot be mined through...
Tensions in the Middle East escalated dramatically this weekend, setting off chaos and unpredictability that rippled across the region and far beyond. Israel shut its airspace in preparation for war coming amid rising tensions with Iran. At the same time, news reports indicated that Iran had contacted Qatar and Oman...
We need to be realistic that finance is always changing. At the moment, all the rage is Hong Kong’s groundbreaking experimentation with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The Hong Kong government is joining forces with Chainlink to pilot cross-border CBDC interoperability with its e-HKD. This partnership is an important step...
CBDCs. The mere mention of the very name can strike fear into the hearts of crypto maximalists. The fear? Speculation, centralized control, government overreach, and the potential squashing of the decentralized ethos that birthed Bitcoin. What if I told you the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's (HKMA) CBDC pilot project, specifically...
The world of blockchain technology is changing every day, and so are the threats to its security. Perhaps the most daunting of all these new and emerging threats is the onset of quantum computing. Quantum computers have very powerful processing capabilities. In practice, they can break the cryptographic algorithms that...
Mobile mining? Bitcoin Solaris? My first thought: Did Dogecoin and Solana have a baby? And is it wearing a Bitcoin costume? I won’t lie, the entire endeavor smells like “too good to be true.” Well, you know, I could just be a bitter Gen-Xer holding onto my beloved energy-consuming blockchain-transaction-creating...
