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Today, private investors around the world have a variety of opportunities to become involved in digital assets. For institutional investors, this is a somewhat more difficult undertaking. An overview of current hurdles and available instruments. Particularly in Switzerland, which has been a global leader in innovation and regulation of crypto-currencies and blockchain since 2015, trading of digital currencies has been commonplace for some time and is easily accessible to individual investors. For example, a private investor can open an account at an international crypto exchange and thus directly buy Bitcoins or other crypto-values. If local access is preferred, specialized banks and financial…

Bitcoin/USD daily basis Bitcoin USD – The 9’200 USD magnet Another week of very narrow trading ranges is moving in. The USD 9,200 mark acted like a magnet. The first three days of the reporting week were marked by slightly lower daily highs and lows. On Thursday, a brief outlier marked the week’s low just below USD 9,000. The price recovered in line with this trend in the days that followed and has since returned to USD 9,200. The stalemate between bulls and bears continued for another week. Advancing to well-known resistances in micro and macro trends A veritable countermovement…

One of the most important football clubs in the world, FC Barcelona, recently launched a fan token via the Ethereum-based tokenization platform Socios. Demand far outstripped supply. The token ($BAR), which went on sale on 22 June, was sold out within two hours. The total quantity put into circulation amounted to 600,000 tokens, which were issued at a fixed price of $2.25 US dollars. After two minutes token worth over 777’000 USD sold The blockchain company Chiliz, which arranged the issue of the tokens, announced after the first week that the demand for the $BAR token far exceeded the initial…

The nature conservation group Oceana recently conducted a study on fish products. The study found that 20 percent of the samples from Norway were incorrectly labelled. By using blockchain technology, such problems should be eliminated in the future. One of the findings of the environmental group’s study was that 20 percent of the fish samples from Norway sold to consumers in the United States were mislabeled. Norway exported a total of 2.7 million tons of fish and seafood in 2019, which is worth more than 10 billion euros. This makes Norway one of the leading exporters of fish products in…

CargoSmart Limited is working with one of the largest shipping companies in the world (CISCO Shipping Lines) as part of a Shipping-blockchain pilot project. The aim is to make sea freight data and delivery status visible at any time. Blockchain technology allows the automatic forwarding of information that cannot be changed afterwards. CargoSmart will record sea freight data onto the blockchain, which enables trading partners to independently view the delivery status at any time. According to the company, measurable successes have already been achieved in the processing time of shipments. This Blockchain pilot project offers real-time exchange of shipment data…