Investors Voice Category: Cryptocurrency

Interest in Bitcoin has surged significantly since late last year but it has all the hallmarks of a classic bubble. Here are six reasons to be sceptical.

Privately managed money issued by profit-seeking global platforms has the potential to become a mainstream means of exchange worldwide, an achievement that could upend global finance.

People all over the world are turning to payments technologies because they offer well-known advantages over cash, including that they can buy from strangers over the internet and, if fraud occurs, the payment companies bear the loss.

From the Industrial Revolution, through the 20th century, and into the tentatively dubbed ‘Information Age’, we’ve witnessed some of the most significant and disruptive changes ever conceived in human society.