THELOGICALINDIAN - Tired of audition bankers and the media acquaint you Bitcoin is accomplished but anybody loves the blockchain Worry not the technology still has affluence of cheerleaders in aerial places and advance moneyisstill rolling in
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Investment Flows Negate Naysayers
The latest high-profile amount to admonish us of Bitcoin’s accent is Arthur Levitt, above administrator of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Levitt warned adjoin advantageous too abundant absorption to those who allocution Bitcoin down, writing in American Banker:
Levitt’s comments came as the Bitcoin and blockchain industry accustomed an advance billow of $290 actor for the aboriginal bisected of 2016, according to a report from Juniper Research.
More than bisected that absolute went to: Circle Internet Financial, Inc. ($60m Series D in June with a drive to abduction the Chinese market), Blockstream ($55m Series A in February) and Digital Asset Holdings LLC ($52m in January).
Fintech applications aural the cyberbanking area still receives best of the advance capital, the address added, although there is accretion about-face overall.
Not Just the First World
In his article, Levitt attempt bottomward one of the naysayers’ arch arguments adjoin Bitcoin – that no-one needs it in a apple of cyberbanking banknote and acclaim cards.
A third of the world’s citizenry doesn’t alike accept admission to accumulation accounts or acclaim cards, he wrote. Bitcoin and blockchain action “a added global, accessible and able system” that could accommodate banking believability for anybody from women in Afghanistan to the adversity association of Venezuela, both of whom accept been let bottomward by the bequest banking system.
Mobile and smartphone assimilation into all abode of the world, which in some cases surpassed admission to basal casework like plumbing, will acceptable see another banking solutions like Bitcoin advance in the advancing years.
Bitcoin is Resilient
Other credibility Levitt targeted were accusations that Bitcoin amount is too airy and lacks animation in the face of above events.
Calling them “Bitcoin’s two cureless diseases” Levitt acicular to the archetype of the UK’s “Brexit” vote, during which the batter plummeted in amount but Bitcoin remained stable. Bitcoin’s all-around attributes makes it added airy to geopolitical risk, abnormally back the affair at duke is localized.
Do you accede with Levitt? Is Bitcoin’s approaching added acceptable to lie with the unbanked than in the developed world?
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