I wasn't expecting that much open-mindedness from a government institution. The Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs met this morning to conduct a hearing entitled, Virtual Currencies: The Oversight Role of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The witnesses were Jay Clayton, Chairman of the U.S. Securities [...]
Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, successful small-cap stock and cryptocurrency investor, entrepreneur and creator of the Gold Stock Bull Investment Newsletter that covers precious metals and cryptocurrencies, Jason Hamlin. Jason has a successful track record of beating the odds and has had routinely good years investing in small cap [...]
Holding large-cap cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have been very profitable long-term, but how does this compare to holding blockchain stocks? And what are some of the top blockchain stocks to consider? As this new technology and the industry springing up around it grows, opportunities arise in multiple areas. For example, we’ve recently seen how [...]
The first two weeks of 2018 have been quite eventful for the cryptocurrency community. There have been a great many developments in terms of the regulatory environment. Also, a new scaling solution for the second biggest coin by market cap may be leading to its meteoric rise over the past year. Increased legislation and regulation [...]
While bitcoin dominated the headlines of 2017, many altcoins have far surpassed it in terms of gains against the US dollar. Furthermore, fees for transactions on the bitcoin network have increased to three or four dollars’ worth of coin a piece, sometimes more. Add to this the fact that the average person can hardly afford [...]
Many people have now heard of bitcoin and cryptocurrency. And many have heard the term “blockchain” thrown around. But what is this new technology, and why is it such a big deal? How does it work? What other uses for blockchain exist outside of facilitating financial transactions? How does it make traditional banking obsolete? Blockchain [...]
