How The Geopolitics Of 2021 Will Shape The Year Ahead For Bitcoin
Developments around the global regulation, hash rate and adoption of Bitcoin made for a unique year in 2021. So how will 2022 play out?This past year was certainly a unique one for bitcoin. We saw the first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) get approved in the United States, the largest-ever Bitcoin conference in Miami, the much anticipated Taproot upgrade, all-time highs nearing $70,000, oh, and a nation state made bitcoin legal tender. Despite all this exciting news, some things never change — the FUD was as prevalent as ever. Bitcoin saw a variety of bans throughout 2021 and, to no....
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Bitcoin prices slid Monday ahead of an election that will shape its bias for the rest of the year. The benchmark cryptocurrency plunged 2.7 percent following its best month in more than a year. Futures tied to the BTC/USD pair also inched lower by 1.27 percent, pointing to a declining institutional interest in the cryptocurrency […]
The new year is just over a week away, so folks all across the crypto world are thinking ahead to what 2022 will bring to the crypto industry and the world. As the new year rapidly approaches, people are thinking about what they can do to make 2022 even better than 2021. With so much anticipation for cryptocurrency in the coming year from government policymakers and market action, it’s no wonder that some in the crypto industry have ambitious resolutions for the new year with how they will help to shape the industry for the better.National governments have taken steps to increase the....
The second full business week of January has demonstrated many trends that NLW argues will shape bitcoin and crypto throughout the year.
A review of the biggest macroeconomic developments that impacted bitcoin last year, and those that will shape it in 2022.
2020 has been a stellar year for blockchain technology, laying important foundations for the year ahead. January will mark 12 years since the Bitcoin genesis block. In that time, blockchain technology has made many significant strides forward. The launch of Ethereum in 2015 introduced smart contracts and token minting. Subsequent years saw developments in areas, such as transaction privacy with the launch of Zcash (ZEC), platforms such as EOS and Tezos attempting to compete with Ethereum on scalability, and dozens of use cases being explored. In particular, 2018 and 2019 were difficult....