2023-8-23 16:26 |
Top DeFi lenders allowed a crypto CEO to take a risky bet, raising key questions about how they manage risk. origin »
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Risk Analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb has reacted to Balaji Srinivasan’s $1 million Bitcoin price prediction that emerged due to a bet. Like many others, he is making it clear that he is not confident in Srinivasan’s most recent move.
2023-3-21 14:43 | |
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Traders using decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to bet on a USDC revival over the weekend are at risk of eight-figure liquidations if the stablecoin loses its $1 peg again this week.
2023-3-14 18:07 | |
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“We've been very intelligent about the way we put together the leverage,” said Michael Saylor, who is not interested in diversifying into other cryptos because he believes “holding Bitcoin for the long term is the highest upside lowest risk strategy” he can pursue.
2021-7-31 16:25 | |
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Bitcoin hasn’t behaved properly over the last years, says a team of strategists at JPMorgan Chase. Citing this reason, the team opines that Bitcoin is, in fact, more of a risk asset as opposed to the popular belief that it’s a totally safe bet for investors.
2021-1-28 01:43 | |
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Гендиректор Galaxy Digital Майк Новограц считает, что биткоин уже фактически стал частью современного финансового рынка. Риски, связанные с инвестициями в эту криптовалюту, значительно ослабли. Свою точку зрения бизнесмен и сторонник BTC высказал в Твиттере, подчеркнув, что крупнейшая цифровая валюта с каждым днем становится все менее рискованным инструментом.
2020-10-29 20:17 | |
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Credit default swaps (of “The Big Short” infamy) have come to the Ethereum blockchain. Opium Exchange says they can help crypto investors manage risk.
2020-9-3 16:00 | |
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As theories on the potential sell-off of Bitcoin by miners emerged amidst declining sentiment around cryptocurrencies, major altcoins like Ethereum and XRP were at risk of a deep pullback. With the majority of altcoins still being correlated with Bitcoin to a large extent and analysts expecting the price of BTC to decline in the short […] The post As Bitcoin traders bet on a big rebound, did Ethereum and XRP avoid a big drop? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-11-20 07:38 | |
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Since its inception, the industry of sports betting has required a certain degree of trust as far as ensuring the accurate recording of betting data is concerned. Traditional crypto sportsbooks run the risk of introducing human error upon bet placement – whether intentional or unintentional – which can lead to the loss of payout for […] The post Betmatch is making the most of blockchain technology for crypto sports betting appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-10-22 09:30 | |
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Most thought that trader Michael Burry was crazy when he started shorting stocks in 2008. But he felt that the market was overheated and the prices would eventually drop. His intuition was right – and it made him $100 million richer.
2019-8-16 22:47 | |
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By CCN: Now that the bitcoin price has momentum on its side, the bulls are placing bullish bets again. The most aggressive trades are seemingly happening in the crypto derivatives market where the risk/reward profile differs vs.
2019-6-4 19:30 | |
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Do decentralized applications (dApps) have a future? Will they ever get consistent users? Do they pose any threat to centralized applications? Two people are willing to risk over $500,000 on this.
2019-5-15 21:23 | |
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Everyone loves a game of risk, but online gambling may be a poorer bet than you thought. The $46 billion dollar industry is full of danger for unwary players, and that’s before you even put your chips on the table.
2019-5-11 19:17 | |
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The “trade of the century” according to one of the last year’s best-performing hedge funds is to sell stocks as risk assets are due for another meltdown and start buying gold. According to Denver-based Crescat Capital LLC, it’s only a matter of time until this bearish bet pays off big. The firm has only about […]
2019-3-20 17:36 | |
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Ripple has in the past couple of years been hugely successful. Its xRapid payment solution has gained interest with major financial institutions including Western Union, American Express, MoneyGram and many more.
2019-3-13 15:43 | |
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A new study has linked cryptocurrency trading obsession with problematic gambling – those who bet too regularly are at an elevated risk of trading cryptocurrency more frequently. The study, which surveyed 876 adults who had gambled at least monthly, found that more than 50 percent of participants had traded cryptocurrency over the past year.
2019-3-11 16:15 | |
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Hodl Hodl, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it is launching a prediction market on Bitcoin. Slated for launch in the spring of 2019, it would be the first Bitcoin-based prediction market to go live on Bitcoin’s mainnet.
2019-3-9 00:16 | |
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A common narrative in today’s financial world is that crypto holders are often unable to execute trades without paying large amounts of commissions and fees.
2018-12-12 21:00 | |
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Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.
2018-7-21 04:03 | |
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Innovative structures, attractive yields, and stronger risk management capabilities are driving a recovery in institutional crypto lending markets, says Craig Birchall, head of product at Membrane, an institutional loan management software provider for digital asset markets.
Gauntlet co-founder John Morrow said his team "found it difficult to navigate the inconsistent guidelines and unwritten objectives" of Aave's "largest stakeholders."
The limitations set out in the Federal Reserve’s new Novel Activities Supervision Program provides additional measures to its original policy statement laid out in January.
TA is a graphical representation of investor behavior, with certain patterns and indicators providing a clue about what’s coming next. It has an important place in the three-legged stool of fundamental, technical and quantitative analysis.
Discover the five basic principles of finance to improve your financial literacy, including, time value of money, risk management, compounding and more.
Crypto lender BlockFi outlined the total amount of loans and net risk exposure it carried at the end of Q2 2022 and shared how it is managing liquidity and credit risk.