CRYPTO

Via BitcoinMagazine.com,

For newcomers, especially those in and around retirement age, the idea of investing in or owning bitcoin can evoke reactions from skepticism to disbelief. If you look beyond the popular narratives, however, you might find there is more to the story than first impressions suggest.

Here are six reasons to consider owning at least some bitcoin during retirement.

1. BITCOIN HELPS BROADEN YOUR ASSET ALLOCATION BASE

Traditionally, investors use a (more…)

Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com,

Every day, there are over 2,000,000,000 consumer transactions around the world.

Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and other large companies process many of these payments.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, does not have anywhere near the capacity to handle this kind of volume.

There is a hard limit on the maximum number of transactions the Bitcoin network can process – about 576,000 transactions a day, or about 0.029% of all the (more…)

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu, ranks the top 10 countries by their rate of cryptocurrency ownership, which is the percentage of the population that owns crypto.

These figures come from crypto payment gateway, Triple-A, and are as of 2023.

Data and Highlights

The table below lists the rates of crypto ownership in the top 10 countries, as well as the number of people this amounts to.

Note that if we were to rank countries based on their (more…)