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Ashwath Balakrishnan
Ashwath is a financial market and technology junkie. He is a cryptocurrency investor, trader, and enthusiast. He has expertise in market psychology and explaining complex technology in a simple way. He aims to battle misinformation in the cryptocurrency space.
Recently, a committee studying the effects of cryptocurrency and distributed ledgers in India recommended an outright ban on all cryptocurrencies. The committee was headed by the Secretary of Economic Affairs, Subhash Chandra Garg. While a sensitive agenda for regulators on a global scale, trying to ban a non-sovereign asset that...
Bill Miller, CIO and Chairman at Legg Mason, has set his fund up for a 46 percent yearly gain with bets on Amazon, Avon, and Bitcoin. Miller has declared his fascination and belief in the genesis cryptocurrency but declined to comment on fund performance or specific assets. Many hedge funds...
Blockchain was probably the most overused buzzword in 2017 for economic and technology enthusiasts. Many companies like Long Island Iced Tea and Bioptix changed their names and their core business just to get in on the hype. A new FBI investigation revealed the cold-beverage company may have done this on...
Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Inc, is concerned about the U.S. government's recent jump into action after the announcement of Libra. In an interview with Fortune, July 25, 2019, Garlinghouse speaks about his discontent with Trump's bunching of cryptocurrencies, and the potential regulatory conundrum that Libra has awoken. The...
Union Bank in the Philippines, funded by Aboitiz Equity Ventures, has launched a stablecoin with the ticker PHX. In doing so, Union Bank has become the first bank in the country to conduct transactions via a blockchain. PHX transactions are being implemented a platform specifically meant to connect listed banks...
Ripple Inc's Q2 2019 market insights report shows mixed results from a fundamental growth perspective. The company has relied on the sale of XRP tokens for a major chunk of its revenue, and this number has sunk to a mere $251 million this quarter. 3 billion XRP was released from...
The Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (BSV) protocol was able to hard fork and upgrade to the proposed Quasar mainnet that increases the max block size from 128 MB to 2 GB. BSV split from BCH after prolonged infighting and a lack of consensus over block size. BitMex Research reported there was...
A Reddit user shared a screenshot showing that Uphold now allows users to move their BAT from the browser integrated wallet after completing verification. Users have been impatiently waiting for Brave and Uphold to allow this, and it is finally here. Although it isn't ideal to have to complete a know-your-customer (KYC)...
A proposal on Ethereum put forth by James Hancock has been shot down by the community. The proposal aimed to temporarily inflate supply by adding a .0055 ETH reward in each block that would be routed to an independent developers fund, which would then be used to carry out necessary...
The last two years have been quite uneventful for cryptocurrencies with regulators launching themselves into the industry in full swing. Their lack of expertise with the way the technology works and how networks run is proving to be detrimental for any hope of reasonable regulation. At the same time, crypto...
