This year, about 12 million Americans will get sucked into the black hole that is the short-term loan industry. Short-term, small-dollar loans, better known as payday loans, have ballooned into a $90 billion market with no signs of slowing down. With a payday loan, you typically borrow between $300 to $5,000 and pay it off […]
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The CEO and Founder of Celsius Network has a lot to say about the future of our world. We should listen. [embedded content] Ryan Dennis has a special guest to mark his premiere episode as the newly minted host of the ICO Alert Podcast. Alex Mashinsky is an especially successful business leader, blockchain advocate, and […]
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“But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward” – Boxing Movie Man The total cryptocurrency market cap fell from $104B to $102.1B, a drop of 1.82% for the week, which isn’t so bad compared to the beating markets have been taking over the past […]
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You’ve probably been hearing a lot about Bitcoin ETFs in the news lately. But, what exactly is a Bitcoin ETF? Simply put, it’s a new way to trade and invest in Bitcoin. This new investment vehicle, when approved, might precipitate massive inflows of institutional cash into the worldwide cryptocurrency markets. It might even offer very […]
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About half of the existing crypto-asset market today – numbering some 1,500 – functions on top of an existing blockchain like ethereum, according to a new report. The study from Satis Group, which forms part of a five-entry series analyzing the state of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, explores the state of what it calls “platform networks,” […]
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In the U.S., initial coin offerings (ICOs) are about ideas. In the Asian market, they’re about returns. “At the very beginning, the information coming from Asia to the US was very limited. We didn’t know what’s really going on,” Zhuling Chen, co-founder of Aelf, a cloud computing startup out of Singapore, told CoinDesk. So the […]
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