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The Universal Stock Ticker Tape machine invented by telegraph pioneer Thomas Edison was used on the NYSE and The Philadelphia Stock Exchange beginning in 1870 until Nasdaq “creatively destroyed” the ticker tape after a century in use to form the first ‘electronic’ exchange in 1970.

Fidelity Investments has opined that governments, and even a central bank, could buy bitcoin in 2022.

So just what is a "Tonga Year?" Well it's the start of a year that just seems to have caught everyone by surprise and disrupted (or, let's be real, blew up) some huge hopes and dreams.

We're now WELL into 2022 (all of 10 days as we write this!) and have had the benefit of having literally DOZENS of fintech entrepreneurs and C-suite executives volunteer to share their insights with Digital Wealth News on the coming year's trends in fintech and digital wealth

The new year is officially here and with it, we are continuing our series "2022 Predictions in Digital Wealth from the C-Suite". Just like last year, we've been blessed with so many submissions from amazing fintech founders that we've opted to break the series up into 3 weekly articles. This week, you'll find Part 2, and MORE GREAT INSIGHT from the industry movers and shakers on what to expect for the coming year.

It's that time of year, friends, when we look to the best and brightest across the many sectors of financial technology and digital wealth to share their prognostications for what the New Year may hold in 2022.

This week will be the two month "birthday" of the launch of a Bitcoin ETF. Well, actually on the 18th to be precise (the Pro Shares Bitcoin ETF launched October 18th). And, actually, the ETF holds only futures not actual spot Bitcoin. AND, actually actually, it's not going well. To be fair, it has not been a good two months for the actual "physical" spot Bitcoin either. But a futures based ETF will always underperform a product that directly holds physical assets. Thank you, SEC.

Nothing is too big to fail. Not businesses, not people, empires or even countries. Sometimes it's a slow "death," sometimes its quick and messy and sometimes its a combination of those two.

There seems to be a race on to see which city is the real "Crypto City", which of course means that city would be the coolest and most "cryptonized." Miami and its Mayor, Francis X. Suarez, kicked things off a while back when the city launched "MiamiCoin" and the mayor offered to take his salary in Bitcoin. Not to be outdone, New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams endorsed the NYCCoin (New York City Coin), offered to take his first three paychecks in Bitcoin AND declared “NYC is going to be the center of the cryptocurrency industry."

The first "radical" step in adopting a new currency took place just a few months ago when the country of El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender. People may not remember but in January 2001, the very same El Salvador gave up control of its monetary policy, abandoned the fixed exchange rate and "dollarized" the economy, thus making the U.S. currency in El Salvador legal tender.