Crypto exchange Coinbase aims for Wall Street listing July 9, 2020 Coinbase, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is said to be preparing to publicly list its shares in New York. The listing could come as early as this year, sources told Reuters. Should its application be approved by US regulators, Coinbase would be the first major US cryptocurrency exchange to go public. It would [...]
Screenshot: Is Channel 4 facing a Great British Sell-Off? June 4, 2021 This week **Media Moment of the Week: Baby Musk (Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo) **Is Channel 4 facing a Great British Sell-Off? **Etsy dials into Gen Z fashion Media Moment of the Week: Baby Musk (Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo) It’s fair to say Elon Musk has a bit of a reputation for [...]
The City View: Patrick L Young on exchanges and the future of finance July 28, 2020 Subscribe to The City View Podcast: Apple / Google / Spotify / RSS In today’s bumper edition of The City View, Andy Silvester is joined by entrepreneur, author and former exchange boss Patrick L Young. Patrick takes us on a global tour of exchanges and the plumbing of the world’s financial system, touching on the remarkable technological achievements of the last two [...]
Crypto AM turns two years old today – One week, four anniversaries! June 18, 2020 Two years ago on the 18th June the first edition of Crypto AM was published in London’s City AM newspaper as a double page spread. With Crypto AM as a weekly feature, City AM became the only mainstream publisher to do this, thus providing an educational voice for the industry to share knowledge with the [...]
Bitcoin’s anonymity: clever or criminal? December 4, 2018 Professor Kevin Curran believes that the growing phenomenon of email scams where attackers claim they stole your password and hacked your webcam while you were visiting naughty websites is enabled in large part due to the difficulty in associating a Bitcoin address with any other address in the Bitcoin network. This is a key feature [...]
Uniswap – the DeFi goldmine minting overnight (and daily) Crypto Millionaires August 18, 2020 UniSwap is a name you should know about if you are planning to get in on the current DeFi craze which seems to be defined, to an extent, by extraordinary gains and potentially extraordinary losses – YAM farming comes to mind! Gains in multiples are made in hours and days, not weeks and months like [...]
The Crypto Circus is Back in Town! This Year’s Star Attraction? DeFi (Part 1) September 1, 2020 Roll up! Roll up! Step right up Ma’am! You too Sir, and yes, bring your kids!. The show is about to start. The most spectacular (crypspacular?) Razzle-Dazzle on the planet is just behind this curtain. Can’t you hear the crowds roar on social media? It’s our star attraction for this year. It promises access to [...]
How a measure of bitcoin’s worth proved worthless December 28, 2018 The financial pages are noticeably shorter on bitcoin stories than this time last year – which may or may not have something to do with the precipitous fall in the cryptocurrency’s price over the last 12 months. On 14 December 2017, a single bitcoin was trading at an all-time high of £14,749 whereas, as of [...]
Crypto A.M. shines its Spotlight on NGRAVE April 14, 2020 NGRAVE is a blockchain security provider offering a secure and user friendly end-to-end solution for the self-sovereign management of individuals and businesses digital assets and cryptocurrencies. The blockchain space is about to see some solid innovation with the advent of NGRAVE, a blockchain technology company on a mission to make owning and managing digital assets [...]
Tokenisation: assets are regular mail, tokenised assets are email July 23, 2021 Alex Lightman talks us through the complex world of tokenisation.