23 November 2024

Tag: cryptocurrency

Today’s Idea: How to Buy Cryptocurrency in Canada

So you want to know about cryptocurrency, do you? If you’re here reading this now odds are good you don’t have the complete roadmap to get involved. You’ve maybe seen some ads online for Wealthsimple Crypto and thought you’d maybe like to get some crypto for yourself, but don’t know where to start. You’re in…

23 March 2022
Will Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) and DeFi levy the challenge to traditional finance?

One of the biggest unforeseeable events of the past twenty years has been the disintermediation effect of new tech. Netflix killed blockbuster, Amazon has slain Sears and other big box chains of the past, and services like Uber and Lyft are disrupting the traditional taxi services. Technology has been busy slaughtering the sacred cows of…

23 February 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Case for Privacy Part 1.

Earlier this week the Biden administration took aim at cryptocurrency by announcing they’re preparing an executive order for release early next month outlining the U.S. government strategy on cryptocurrency. Here’s a handy bullet point list: The directive would place the White House in a central role overseeing efforts to set policies and regulate digital assets,…

29 January 2022
Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Litecoin

Litecoin is one of the original cryptocurrencies. We could call it a First Generation cryptocurrency alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, XRP and if you want to stretch it some, maybe Dash and Bitcoin Cash. It’s been around since 2011 when Bitcoin mining was mostly done from your mother’s basement on a series of networked computers, each…

27 January 2022
Today’s Idea: Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) offers tomorrow’s markets today

Tomorrow’s markets are going to be easier to navigate, or so we’re told by anyone close to decentralized finance (DeFi). The essential promise of DeFi is that it could lead to an altogether more efficient, more democratic form of finance. It promises a system that’s cheaper, faster, more transparent and less prone to manipulation by…

4 January 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Ripple (XRP)

Ripple is the key product of San-Francisco based Ripple Labs. It acts simultaneously as a currency exchange, remittance network and settlement system, and was introduced to the market in 2012 on a distributed, open source protocol that supported fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodities and other value stores, including mobile minutes and frequent flyer miles. Its cryptocurrency…

3 January 2022
If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition

If I had a billion dollars the first thing I’d do is buy a monkey. Not a howler monkey or a languor monkey, or one of those that gets creative with how they say hello, but a regular capuchin monkey—one that hasn’t reached puberty yet so he doesn’t get aggressive. His name would be Jocko,…

27 December 2021
The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)

USD Coin (USDC) is a digital stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar and runs on Ethereum, Stellar, Algorand, Solana, Tron and the Hedera Hashgraph system. It’s managed by a group called Centre, which was founded by the company and includes members from Coinbase (COIN.Q) and the Bitcoin mining giant, Bitmain, as investors. For the…

16 December 2021
Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) goes public, brings wave of DeFi interest with it

The final stage of a long acquire-and-go-public process reached completion for Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) Tuesday, as the de-fi roll up that has been attracting financial heavy hitters behind the scenes this past year received its go-ahead go-public nod. The recent grouping of Israeli firms Seamless Logic and Moneyclip Inc, with 1290447 BC Ltd, is now…

30 November 2021
Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Monero (XMR)

Cryptocurrency has a number of different problems and one of them is that it’s not even remotely private. Transparency is baked into the system for most coins. Anyone can see what’s happening right now on Bitcoin’s blockchain by going to https://www.blockchain.com/explorer and after a search and a few clicks, you can find out what’s going…

25 November 2021