Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Warns of the Dangers of Trump’s Victory for the U.S. Economy

Joseph Stiglitz has referred to the possible effects of a hypothetical victory by Donald Trump in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The Nobel laureate specified that Trump’s threats to raise China’s import tariffs and his radical “zero-sum” view of the world could result in a fundamental shift in the current U.S. economy. Nobel Laureate Joseph … Read more

This Week in Bitcoin: New Exchanges, Bancor Breach, Binance CEO vs Vitalik

In this week’s daily editions of Bitcoin in Brief we reported about a couple of new exchanges, a major security breach at Bancor, and why the Binance CEO came out against Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin. This week’s most commented-on article covered the Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, who predicted that cryptocurrencies will be “regulated into oblivion.” Also … Read more

Stiglitz Predicts Cryptocurrencies Will Be “Regulated Into Oblivion”

Joseph Stiglitz, the former chief economist of the World Bank and Nobel laureate, has predicted that cryptocurrencies will be “regulated into oblivion” in future, with Mr. Stiglitz saying that BTC may be “worth just $100 in 10 years.” Also Read: Philippines Embraces Cryptocurrency: Exchanges Issued Provisional Licenses Nobel Laureate Predicts Future Regulatory Onslaught Targeting Crypto In … Read more

Bitcoin Price Watch: Currency Falls to $6,300

At press time, the father of crypto has fallen back down to $6,300, about $400 less than where it has stood for the past few days. Bitcoin recently reached $6,700 – a milestone according to most analysts, who suggested that the currency had broken longstanding resistance and that $7,000 was likely inevitable. Sadly, this doesn’t … Read more

Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair on Bitcoin: “Value — Like Beauty — Is in the Eye of Beholder”

Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) chair Sheila Bair was given a platform on Yahoo! Finance to share her thoughts on the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin. While she trucks in regulatory speak, some of her ideas might surprise crypto enthusiasts. Also read: Bundesbank Board Member: No Plans to Issue State-Backed Cryptocurrency Bitcoin’s Value is … Read more