CrowdConscious - Surfing The Cryptoverse

This post was originally published on my Medium blog and can be found here . I hope you enjoy and find this helpful! The content below is  heavily built on  this investigative article  from  FinanceFeeds .  For context , the author tells the unfortunate tale of  Social Trading  and its perilous pitfalls as Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) acts as a global regulator  of investment operations, implementing the ‘Iron Fist,’   MiFID II . The story gets interesting when Brokers find themselves under pressure because of the conflict of interest caused by incentive schemes implemented on Social Trading platforms. Social Trading Further Catalyzes the Convergence of Financial Regulation & Technology Social Trading  is really just the utilization of user-generated content as trade signals and wisdom-of-the-crowd to make online investment trades.  Social trading sites  usually  provide their users  with a...

This post was originally published on my Medium blog and can be found here . I hope you enjoy and find this helpful! It’s been quite a roller-coaster the past year, hasn’t it? At the  beginning of 2017 , the price of  Bitcoin was $962.48 , now  $10,009.20 ;  Ethereum was $8.19 , now  $756.70 ;  Litecoin was $4.36 , now  $186.73 ; and  NEO was $0.14 , now  $100.83 . It’s not wonder we’ve seen such a mass exodus from the world of FinTech to the crypto markets, thankfully. Not only that, but 2017 was the year that Bitcoin truly went viral. Meaning, most human beings have now heard of Bitcoin as the cryptocurrency. Over this time,  we have seen many corporations begin to partner with projects  that  conducted an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) ,  real companies . So much so that the ecommerce behemoth,  Overstock, is running an ICO  — people are waking up.  So are the world governments.  Though anybody in ...