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The CEO of Kingdom Trust, a Bitcoin-friendly custodian managing more than $13 billion in assets, believes Bitcoin comprises a digital realization of Austrian economics.

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed Bitcoin’s most important value, and it’s not the price — but its decentralized nature.

YouTuber Ivan on Tech recently explained how the video game RuneScape prepared him for crypto trading.

Former Italian minister of economy and finance spoke to Cointelegraph about his vision of the future economy and crypto’s part in it.

Igor Sechin, the head of Rosneft, believes that barrels of oil could one day be paid for using cryptocurrencies.

Debate has been raging on whether cryptocurrencies with a fixed supply are good or bad. Do they increase prices and demand, or stymy spending?

A company has signed a memorandum of understanding with a university to create the cryptocurrency model that Bitcoin’s inventor envisaged a decade ago.

Diversifying away risk in a cryptocurrency portfolio could be very difficult, however, research shows us otherwise.

As holidaymakers and consumers seek better value for money, many have turned to cryptocurrencies to protect themselves from further effects of inflation and get better value for their money.

I studied economics and this doesn’t make sense to me. From an academic standpoint all I see is vast potential for this technology. Here are the top 4 reasons why economists should love Bitcoin:

There are plenty of legitimate economic arguments against Bitcoin. A level of inequality that makes the U.S. look like a “workers’ paradise” is one. The possibility that mining will continue to become more centralized is another. And, while I don’t buy it myself, concerns over the protocol’s deflationary nature are justified if one believes that our collective understanding of economics and monetary policy will be at the same level in 2140 as it is today.