Jolley suggested that a bitcoin allocation belongs in all portfolios, after suggesting that the United States dollar will see significant inflation next year. “We normally have a 15% allocation [...] to gold, bitcoin will come in and replace some of that gold allocation. I’ve set it at 5%," he said.
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Hong Kong plans to ban retail investors from buying crypto
Local authorities said the proposed measures will bring Hong Kong’s anti-money laundering and terrorism financing regulations on par with the rest of the world
Hong Kong authorities have proposed a set of new licensing requirements for crypto exchanges and banned retail investors from buying and selling cryptocurrencies.
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Blockchain technology will drive digital cities: Report
A new study predicts four technologies, including AI, internet of things, and 5G will have a $721 billion impact on the 60 largest digital cities over a decade
New York City is and will remain the digital capital of the world—and blockchain is one of the technologies that will get it there, according to a new report.
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Hong Kong’s Bitcoin spike: Foresight or fluke?
A tremendous jump in trade volume on a small Hong Kong P2P exchange was touted as proof that Bitcoin is the new gold. But it may have just been a whale’s splash
Bitcoin trades in Hong Kong saw a massive spike at the end of September—blowing past even the volumes seen at the height of the 2017 bubble—simultaneous to political unrest in the Chinese territory. With nearly $12.3 million HKD (equivalent to $1.5 million in USD) traded in the week ending September 28 according to charts on peer-to-peer trading site Coin.dance’s LocalBitcoins, it was hard not to see a connection with escalating protests, anti-Chinese bank sentiment, and vandalism that recently caused ATMs to run dry, and panic-buying reported at supermarkets on October 7. It’s especially interesting considering the same Bitcoin (BTC) volume jump was seen, on a smaller scale, during the last…
