CBOE presses pause on Bitcoin futures. Is Wall Street about to get cryptos wrong, again?

The Big Four central banks of the world — the U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the Bank of England (BOE) — are arguably the most powerful institutions of the face of the earth. The Big Four decide on interest rates impacting over $41… Read More

Our future is going to be filled with robots. No, not “Terminator”-type androids. Rather, industrial ones that perform many of the tasks humans do today. Robot usage is already taking off. In 2018, the world purchased 28,478 industrial robots. This was a 16% increase from 2017, according to the Association… Read More

Facebook is taking the plunge. Behind closed doors and under a veil of not-so-secret hush-hush, they’re preparing to launch their own “cryptocurrency.” No one on the outside seems to know what a Facebook coin will look like. But some experts and media observers have already responded with great fanfare. “The… Read More

When will the cryptocurrency market take off? That’s easy. When institutional investors start to throw even a small part of their trillions of dollars into it. But before mutual funds, pensions, endowments and hedge funds start to buy cryptocurrencies the way they buy other assets, they will first dip their… Read More

  Below is the recent Weiss Ratings submission to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in response to the CFTC’s request for input on crypto-asset mechanics and markets. We are very thankful for the opportunity to provide input to the Commission’s Ethereum project, drawing from our independent cryptocurrency ratings and… Read More

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Feb. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Weiss Ratings, the world’s only financial rating agency providing grades on cryptocurrencies, has submitted its commentary to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in response to its request for input on Ethereum derivatives. In their submission, founder, … Read More

It is always a good thing when scumbags get their just desserts. I was pleased to see that Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán got convicted and will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. But what really amazed me was the gargantuan amount of cash… Read More

Despite a tremendous improvement in transaction volume in leading cryptocurrencies, crypto naysayers continue to push their negative narrative. “It’s all worthless,” they say. “It will all disappear in a puff of smoke,” they rant. It’s a “fraud worse than tulip bulbs,” said Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase. (Of course,… Read More