NFTs in the media: from films to the TV - NFTs are being used in the film and media industry from Hollywood to Bollywood and even television manufacturers are making TVs with the ability to display NFTs. Whilst there are obvious ways to use NFTs to make money to finance film production, NFTs are also offering a way for the media industry at large to enter the metaverse. The metaverse, with the backing of global brands and tech giants such as Facebook (now renamed Meta), is a key new sector we are likely to hear a lot more about in 2022.
Crypto assets: inflation hedge, portfolio diversifier or return enhancer? - Bitcoin may not be a useful inflation hedge, but there are still many reasons to invest and see it (and crypto assets) more broadly as a valuable investment with the potential for out-sized, risk-adjusted returns. We explore having a modest % of a portfolio invested in Bitcoin and examine what would have been the impact on the risk-adjusted returns.
Bitcoin continues to dominate interest - over the last few weeks we have published a range of topics, but it has been those topics on Bitcoin which have garnered the most views. As ever, we are regularly asked, “Is now the time to buy Bitcoin?” Whilst we cannot offer advice, this article looks at how, by saving money regularly into digital assets, one can smooth out the volatility of this asset class by buying less when the prices are high and more digital assets when the prices fall.
A seasoned Investor take on the similarities between crypto and derivatives - shared thoughts of a derivatives veteran of 35 years standing, who sees that the old “greed is good” adage, so prevalent in the heady derivatives trading days of the ‘80s and ‘90s, has been replaced by community sharing and collective goodness in today's crypto chat rooms. This derivatives trader has seen the ‘crypto light’ and how he switched from Fear of Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) to Hold On for Dear Life (HODL).
Jonny Fry / James Tylee of Digital Bytes by Team Blockchain on Cyber.FM 12th January 2022 ft: Bryan Coyne non-executive Director of Kasei Holdings PLC and a director of emerging markets at BGC