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  Professor Coin: What's Driving Cryptocurrency Adoption Around the World

  Professor Andrew Urquhart is Professor of Finance and Financial Technology and Head of the Department of Finance at Birmingham Business School (BBS). This is the fifth instalment of the Professor Coin column, in which I bring important insights from published academic literature on cryptocurrencies to the Decrypt readership. In this article, we’ll investigate cryptocurrency adoption. Cryptocurrencies are clearly growing in terms of size, scale and types of offerings, which altogether indicates t...

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  Ross Ulbricht to Speak at Bitcoin Conference in First Public Appearance Since Trump Pardon

  Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, will make his first public appearance since his release from prison earlier this year, speaking at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas from May 27 to 29. The news, announced by Ulbricht on X on April 10, follows a presidential pardon by Donald Trump in January that saw the end of his incarceration.  Trump granted Ulbricht a “full and unconditional pardon,” citing support from the Libertarian movement and calling the sentence “ridiculous.” From 2011 to 201...

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  Trump’s Tariff Chaos Might Actually Be Good for Bitcoin, Says Grayscale

  Increasing tariff implementation under President Donald Trump may be influencing a near-term price decline for Bitcoin, but a Grayscale report suggests that the changing global trade dynamics could benefit the top crypto asset.  The crypto asset manager’s report suggests that tariffs and their contribution towards stagflation—an economic state in which there is high or growing inflation alongside low or slowing GDP—may ultimately lead to underperformance of traditional assets. However, historica...