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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.
The most trending cryptocurrency narratives in 2018 were undoubtedly "institutions are coming" and "adoption is coming". This is currently seen as a failed narrative, but it has played it in a more realistic way than most expected. Fidelity, J.P. Morgan, and others have more than just dipped their toes into...
One of the longest-standing debates in Bitcoin, regarding the optimal block size, may slowly start to fizzle away as scaling solutions like SegWit make transactions smaller, effectively increasing throughput. As per Segwit.space, a monitoring interface for adoption, over 60 percent of on-chain transactions SegWit transaction format, January 6, 2019. Optimal...
Jan Weidmann, the President of the Bundesbank, holds some very unique thoughts on the topic of money, digitization, and the network effect of payment services. Speaking with Handelsblatt, he offers his perspective on opposing Libra, which is centered around a market-oriented approach rather than endorsing the launch of a state-backed competitor such...
Faegre Baker Daniels, a Chicago-based law partnership, is being accused of legal negligence and "erroneous advice" by Digital Capital Management LLC, formerlly known as Crypto Asset Fund LLC. According to legal documents, Faegre Baker Daniels told the investment fund to structure their company in a particular way, citing that crypto...
From being popularized as the base layer for Bitcoin to being touted as one of the most important technological advances of the last decade, blockchain has had its ups and downs - but mostly ups. The key value proposition of blockchain is the ability for multiple parties to coordinate with...
As of January 1, 2020, the Chinese state will implement legislation that regulates cryptographic passwords in a way that is being hypothesized to be vital to their digital currency efforts. According to China Money Network, the government of China wants to ensure its network is optimally secured, creating the need for...
Of late, Parity has started to get on the bad side of many in the Ethereum community. Before the Istanbul hard fork, it was revealed that there was a bug in the client update and a last-minute upgrade was released to prevent anything going wrong. Once again, a bug that...
Bitcoin was conceived by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and the network went live in January 2009; since then, the genesis cryptocurrency never looked back, growing stronger on a yearly basis and immortalizing itself in financial history, irrespective of how all of this turns out later down the line. As we...
Bitcoin's block reward is due for another infamous halving come May 2020. This reduces the amount of bitcoin rewarded to miners for ordering transactions and creating a new block. Skeptics believe the price of bitcoin may not react the way most people expect, while the "ultra enthusiasts" are still confident...
Current cryptocurrency payment solutions are centered around payment processors like BitPay and debit card facilitators like Coinbase and Wirex. North America and Europe already have their fair share of crypto debit card providers, while Asia and Africa are relatively underpenetrated in this segment. Wirex's foray into the continent gives its...
