Libra: The End of the State Money Monopoly?
“Money is an honest ledger that individuals use to keep track of real wealth, defined as productive assets. Sorry Facebook but real wealth doesn’t...
Gold and Bitcoin: A Crypto Strategy, also for Institutional Investors
“Digital gold and physical gold make a highly interesting combination as a portfolio. Excess volatility is dampened by gold, while you still can participate...
Tokenizing the Swiss Franc with Armin Schmid of Swiss Crypto Tokens
“Useful groundwork has already been done in all these areas in Switzerland. But the time for pioneers is over: Switzerland now has to take...
Institutional Requirements for an Investible Crypto Index
“Creating an index that accurately tracks the market requires consideration of three main factors: reflecting market dynamics, maintaining/governing the respective rules, and preventing manipulation.”
Patrick...
How Crypto Brokers and Funds Source Liquidity
“If you contact multiple desks to source your trade, you are leaking a lot of information to the market, and desks will often ‘pre-hedge’...
Crypto Investments at Julius Baer – Tradition meets Innovation
Julius Baer is one of the leading Swiss wealth managers with a focus on personal advice for wealthy private clients. This asset manager's advisory...
In Case You Were Sleeping: Banking on the Blockchain
“Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.” Rick Falkvinge
Key Takeaways
Coinbase is estimated to control about four percent of all...
Let’s Hope Bitcoin Doesn’t Become Any More Decentralized
A common claim among bitcoin enthusiasts is that it is a
“decentralized” method of making payments. Here are some notable outlets making
this claim:
Investopedia: “Bitcoin
offers...
Exclusive Interview with Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet on the Academic Blockchain Podcast
Charles Guillemet discusses how to securely store cryptocurrencies using Ledger's security suite of products including the Nano S/X and the Ledger Vault. We also...
Bitcoin vs. Gold – a Fictitious Debate
Since we have been quite involved with the topics of Gold and Bitcoin for several years, we have already held several discussions on...