Michael Kern

Safehaven

Contributor since: 21 Feb 2018

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• The Bitcoin Bunker Holding Billions

  Published 12 May 2018 | viewed 3,372 times

  Just because it’s digital doesn’t mean it doesn’t need a vault, and Silicon Valley millionaires and billionaires now have a way to keep their cryptocurrency…

• The Push To Re-Decentralize The Internet

  Published 11 May 2018 | viewed 2,476 times

  The notion of decentralization has seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years, due in large part to the gross irresponsibility of some of the…

• New Rules Challenge Social Media Censorship

  Published 09 May 2018 | viewed 2,023 times

  For the last several years we have been witnessing some major social media ugliness that has brought us to a breaking point over security, privacy,…

• Goldman Bites The Bitcoin Bullet

  Published 03 May 2018 | viewed 2,032 times

  Goldman Sachs this week became the first Wall Street bank to confirm that it will be opening its own Bitcoin trading desk, citing enough client…

• Telegram Cancels Its Public ICO After Raising $1.7 Billion

  Published 03 May 2018 | viewed 3,083 times

  With regulators across the globe beginning to crack down on ICOs, startups are beginning to err on the side of caution. Risks are becoming more…

• Western Union Eyes China's $1 Trillion Fintech Market

  Published 01 May 2018 | viewed 1,896 times

  Digital payments through Chinese messaging app WeChat have risen to a mind-blowing $1.2 trillion as of 2016, and in the first quarter of last year,…

• Big Banking Is Losing This $600 Billion Industry

  Published 26 April 2018 | viewed 3,516 times

  With $600 billion in global remittances at stake, the technology behind how people the world over move their money has never been so crucial—and at…

• Big Banks Double Down On Crypto Ambitions

  Published 25 April 2018 | viewed 3,829 times

  When nearly a quarter of all banks and hedge funds are eager to get into cryptocurrency trading, reality sets in: Crypto is ‘real’ if there…

• Iran Bans Crypto Amid Currency Crisis

  Published 23 April 2018 | viewed 7,888 times

  With a decision over the renewal of U.S. sanctions looming large in early May, the Iranian central bank has moved to ban all domestic banks…

• The World’s First Trillionaire Will Be A Space Miner

  Published 18 April 2018 | viewed 19,822 times

  Famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Goldman Sachs share a common belief: The next trillion-dollar industry will be in the mining sector—in outer space.  …

• Could Tesla Be Profitable By The End Of 2018?

  Published 13 April 2018 | viewed 2,739 times

  After having some troubles with production at the start of the year, which resulted in CEO Elon Musk spending a few nights in the factory,…

• The Biggest Crypto Crackdown Yet

  Published 12 April 2018 | viewed 2,833 times

  In what one media outlet is calling the “biggest enforcement move yet” to combat cryptocurrency fraud, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly stepping…

• Bitcoin Could Find Its Footing After Tax Day

  Published 09 April 2018 | viewed 2,647 times

  U.S. households owe some $25 billion in capital gains taxes for their cryptocurrency holdings, with analysts saying that fact could result in another big sell-off…

• The Worst Ways To Buy Cryptocurrency

  Published 06 April 2018 | viewed 3,408 times

  The ongoing cryptocurrency craze has spawned an epidemic of impracticality, with increasing numbers of people desperate enough to get in on the crypto action to…

• How 3D Printing Is Transforming The Manufacturing Sector

  Published 05 April 2018 | viewed 4,692 times

  The 1980s are far behind us, and 3D isn’t about making television more exciting anymore. We’ve gone far beyond film, and technological advancements mean that…

• Why Crypto Millionaires Are Trading Over Skype

  Published 03 April 2018 | viewed 7,586 times

  Crypto whales who aren’t keen to get down and dirty with online exchanges are making hundreds of millions of dollars daily in digital currency trades…

• Is Bitcoin Mining Still Profitable?

  Published 02 April 2018 | viewed 4,325 times

  Bitcoin has been badly hammered in 2018, losing about 70 percent of its value in the first 3 months of the year. There's no doubt…

• 92 Percent Of Blockchain Projects Are Doomed To Fail

  Published 01 April 2018 | viewed 4,383 times

  Cryptocurrencies have been getting massacred, with the crypto market losing 70 percent of its value since the beginning of 2018. But Blockchain, the cryptographically secure…

• Bitcoin Continues Its Death Spiral

  Published 30 March 2018 | viewed 2,950 times

  Bitcoin (BTC) prices dropped to a 50-day low of $6,630 early Friday, hovering around $6,800 since, with bulls lining up to say the bottom is…

• Big Banking’s Favorite Cryptocurrency

  Published 27 March 2018 | viewed 3,271 times

  With a market cap of over $23 billion, Ripple (XRP) is one cryptocurrency that’s on a definitive tear--price volatility aside--and a string of deals with…