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Interesting statistics on the crypto market from Statista
#5minF – 5-Minute-Friday The principle of the “5-Minute-Friday” is probably known to many by now. This concept also fits perfectly for the popular podcast model. Every Friday Alex Bechtel, Jonas Gross and Michael Blaschke try to explain a question of the Bitcoin & Crypto community a little bit more in 5 minutes and briefly and…
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How does Bitcoin work? Part 1: Introduction and operation
Hardly any other topic is currently being discussed as intensively and controversially as Bitcoin. While Bitcoin supporters predict exponential growth for the crypto asset, critics point out that Bitcoin is nothing more than “play money”. Regardless of the heated debates, the fact is that Bitcoin is gaining traction in emerging and developing markets. Even in…
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Blockchains must be able to talk to each other
#5minF – 5-Minute-Friday The principle of the “5-Minute-Friday” is probably known to many by now. This concept also fits perfectly for the popular podcast model. Every Friday Alex Bechtel, Jonas Gross and Michael Blaschke try to explain a question of the Bitcoin & Crypto community a little bit more in 5 minutes and briefly and…
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Don’t believe the hype: Bitcoins solve one problem – and create many new ones
The bitcoin price has been fluctuating and rising rapidly, breaking the $60,000 barrier for the first time in mid-March. Many media outlets are reporting almost daily on the cryptocurrency’s soaring fortunes, and Google searches are on the rise. Bitcoin are fondly heralded as the new saviours, touted as “crisis-proof” and described as the saviours of…
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Digital central bank money and cash abolition
#5minF – 5-Minute-Friday The principle of the “5-Minute-Friday” is probably known to many by now. This concept also fits perfectly for the popular podcast model. Every Friday Alex Bechtel, Jonas Gross and Michael Blaschke try to explain a question of the Bitcoin & Crypto community a little bit more in 5 minutes and briefly and…
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Why digital currencies? Isn’t money already digital?
#5minF – 5-Minute-Friday The principle of the “5-Minute-Friday” is probably known to many by now. This concept also fits perfectly for the popular podcast model. Every Friday Alex Bechtel, Jonas Gross and Michael Blaschke try to explain a question of the Bitcoin & Crypto community a little bit more in 5 minutes and briefly and…
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Programmable payments and the role of DLT
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) will permanently change some industries. Thanks to its property as a decentralized, tamper- and censorship-resistant database, DLT contributes to generating new business models, increasing process efficiencies and establishing cross-company trust. Use cases for the technology range from industrial use cases in areas such as energy, manufacturing and logistics to financial use…
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BigTech goes Digital Currencies – now Amazon too?
The Bitcoin, Fiat and Rock’n’Roll News This week, Alexander, Jonas, and Michael rank the relevant developments in the CBDC and crypto scene in a new news episode: Lagarde forges ahead on the digital euro. The Chinese CBDC project DC/EP is progressing inexorably. The bitcoin price is going through the roof and is already correcting again.…
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Bitcoin is not a means of payment
#5minF – 5-Minute-Friday The principle of the “5-Minute-Friday” is probably known to many by now. This concept also fits perfectly for the popular podcast model. Every Friday Alex Bechtel, Jonas Gross and Michael Blaschke try to explain a question of the Bitcoin & Crypto community a little bit more in 5 minutes and briefly and…
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The digital yuan: China leads the way in CBDC
#5minF – 5-Minute-Friday The principle of the “5-Minute-Friday” is probably known to many by now. This concept also fits perfectly for the popular podcast model. Every Friday Alex Bechtel, Jonas Gross and Michael Blaschke try to explain a question of the Bitcoin & Crypto community a little bit more in 5 minutes and briefly and…
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What do bitcoin, blockchain and innovation have in common?
Alex von Frankenberg and André Bajorat in conversation at Bitcoin, Fiat, Rock’n’Roll What happens when a long-time VC investor and a banker with a FinTech background sit down for an hour and talk about Bitcoin, blockchain and innovation? You’ll find out in the latest podcast episode of Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock’n’Roll. Alex von Frankenberg, Managing…
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Bitcoin is a bubble, so what?
#5minF – 5-Minutes-Friday The principle of the “5-Minute-Friday” is probably known to many by now. This concept also fits perfectly for the popular podcast model. Every Friday, Alex Bechtel tries to explain a Bitcoin & Crypto community question in a bit more detail in 5 minutes and briefly and crisply address the desired topic. With…
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The digital euro – on the way to tokenized money
Digital vs digitized money In a four-part podcast series, Alexander Bechtel and Manuel Klein show how the euro can be “digitised”, what different forms the digital euro can take and what hurdles have to be overcome to make the digital euro a reality. Terms such as cryptocurrencies, CBDC, stablecoins as well as tokenized fiat money…
