Reuters (October 25)
“Stablecoins, the latest innovation in digital currency, are a hybrid of the private and public models and claim to deliver the best of both their worlds.” Their users have roughly tripled in less than three years. “Stablecoins, it seems, give the people what they want: constant, real-time access to a globally usable, digital dollar.” As adoption grows, “the greenback’s supremacy” looks poised to be further reinforced.
Tags: Adoption, Digital currency, Digital dollar, Globally usable, Greenback, Hybrid, Innovation, Real time, Reinforced, Stablecoins, Supremacy, Tripled, Users
Institutional Investor (January 31)
“Bitcoin’s wild price swings have investors wondering how to short the digital currency, as there would be a lot of money to be made in the latest craze in investing.” Alas, this isn’t so easy. Though Bitcoin futures trade openly, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is charging “an initial margin of 47 percent of the futures’ value owing to the volatile nature of Bitcoin.”
Tags: Bitcoin, CME, Craze, Digital currency, Futures, Investing, Investors, Margin, Price Swings, Short, Volatile, Wild
