The era of decentralisation April 14, 2020 We are about to enter the era of decentralisation. Thanks to a global shift towards work from home practices, we are no longer sitting in large office blocks, but in our own homes. We are literally decentralising. For those in the cryptocurrency space, we’ve been expecting this to happen, just not quite this quickly. For [...]
Q&A with Brendan Callan September 16, 2020 How and why has the company changed since it was founded? We’ve come a long way since our inception in 1999. Back then, the widespread adoption of the internet started a new revolution in online trading and traditional barriers to entry for traders disappeared and costs fell substantially. During the 2000s, we focused heavily on [...]
When Moon? A momentous last week June 2, 2020 When Moon? A phrase often used in the crypto space to describe when a coin price will blast off in value. This week we have seen Bitcoin finally rebreach the US$10,000 and notably my friends at Cardano saw their market cap increase 52% catapulting it back into the top 10 cryptocurrency chart by value for [...]
Industry 4.0 meets DeFi September 30, 2020 The Historical Roots Over two centuries ago we learned that there is a more efficient way of manufacturing and we shifted from hand production to machines through the use of steam power and water power. That era was marked as the First Industrial Revolution in our history books. Followed by adoption of electricity, installations of [...]
City Moves: Who is switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? March 3, 2021 Snakes and Ladders provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every Wednesday afternoon. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. This week we have seen a flurry of new hires across the capital. From a Ritz chairman joining an intelligence firm, to a former Knight Frank executive taking on a leading residential role [...]
Johanna Kyrklund: the FOMO market is over – so, what’s next? April 12, 2021 Maybe lockdown has made me more middle aged and boring. I’m just not as interested in trendy stuff any more, both in my personal life (I opted for a VW ID3, not a Tesla, after all) and now in investing. But in today’s markets a more boring approach – favouring diversification and judiciousness over more [...]
What the past can reveal about the future of money September 22, 2020 Money is a technology. It may be cultural in nature, but its story is nonetheless one of relentless innovation leading to big changes in society. Today we are in the midst of a change that is as significant as any of the great historical leaps, such as the advent of coins or paper banknotes. The [...]
Government issued ‘Corona Bonds’ are inevitable. Could blockchain provide the answer to efficiency and transparency of their issue? April 21, 2020 Price Watch The crypto market has had a positive week with the total market cap once again heading north of the US$200bn mark and at the time of writing, Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at US$7,050.62 / GB£5,685.18; Ethereum (ETH) is at US$179.39 / GB£144.70; Ripple (XRP) is at US$0.1894 / GB£0.1520; Binance (BNB) is at [...]
Bitcoin falls back below $4,000 benchmark as cryptocurrency volatility lingers November 26, 2018 The price of bitcoin showed little sign of an upturn this morning after a weekend that saw the cryptocurrency dip below the $4,000 threshold. Bitcoin's value dipped to $3,930 today, after recovering back above $4,000 late yesterday, when it plunged to $3,474 – its lowest level since September last year, according to Luxembourg crypto-exchange Bitstamp. Yet [...]
Japan Sees its First Crypto Seizure As Binance Helps Take Down Money Laundering Group August 25, 2020 This week the price of Bitcoin (BTC) moved sharply up and surpassed the $12,000 mark to hit a high shortly above it. The price has since declined to a weekly low at $11,500, before recovering to $11,750, according to data from CrpytoCompare. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, started the week at $425 [...]