Category: Finance
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Blockchain Pulse Survey: Progress and Challenges in Swiss Banking
The Blockchain Pulse Survey 2024, a comprehensive survey of 19 Swiss banks by HSG’s Center for Financial Services Innovation, ACK Consulting Knowledge and partners, highlights how the industry is proactively embracing blockchain opportunities, investing in strategies, and addressing regulatory and technical challenges.
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How to avoid being hacked like Bybit
Just over a week ago, Bybit was hacked for nearly $1.5bn: Hackers steal $1.5bn from crypto exchange in ‘biggest digital heist ever’. By now, we understand the hack well enough to summarize updated best practices and lessons learned to reduce the likelihood of similar attacks. But first, a big shout-out to Bybit CEO Ben Zhou…
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Why Bitcoin is Important
Bitcoin is still the best cryptocurrency. Let’s look at what makes Bitcoin different. This is written in simple language so that anyone can read, understand, and explain it to their friends. Let’s dive in! Bitcoin as Sound Money Regular money, like dollars or euros, can lose value over time due to something called inflation. Inflation…
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Crypto 2025 Predictions
Cryptocurrencies are ending the year 2024 on a very high note. Here are my top 2025 predictions for adoption, institutions and technology
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Are NFTs securities?
New perspective that I haven’t heard before, better explains why quite a few respectable people argue that (many) NFTs are securities. Great newsletter as usual by Matt Levine. I like to explain crypto initial coin offerings by saying that “they’re like if the Wright Brothers sold air miles to finance inventing the airplane,” so here’s…
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Custody & Post-Trade-Infrastructure
Die HSLU bietet ab Oktober 2023 mit dem CAS Crypto Finance & Cryptocurrencies wieder die Gelegenheit, sich in diesem wichtigen Bereich mit Expertenwissen weiterzubilden. Ich werde das Themen Custody und Post-Trade-Infraktruktur vertiefen, und freue mich jetzt schon wieder auf die anregenden Diskussionen, wenn wir ausgehend von der SWIFT-Architektur herführen, wie das heute und morgen auf…
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Doxx through Bankruptcy
This is bad! They worked out more than 15,000 personal crypto wallets from last year’s Celsius filing — all tied to real names.Celsius filing revealed 15,000 personal crypto wallets holding $3 billion at their peak
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Local Control
The SEC is done playing:– all US assets must be managed in the US– new wallets that only Binance US employees have access to– US customers can still withdraw funds This is similar to what FINMA would require from Swiss Banks. Except control would not have to be exclusively in Switzerland, under normal circumstances. Binance,…
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BlackRock Bitcoin ETF
Sounds fantastic. In the middle of the SEC lawsuit, that’s either very strong by BlackRock – or an oversight by their middle management 🤷 BlackRock Filed Bitcoin ETF Application, Leveraging Coinbase Custody
