Five years in the making: the hard fork to end all hard forks July 29, 2020 Ever since entering the blockchain space, with a view to building my own project Vaureum, I have been searching out best of breed partners to work with. It was in November 2017 when an associate with a number of patents under his belt said to me ‘if you are looking to do anything in the [...]
Why are Premier League clubs being paid in Bitcoin for their commercial deals with trading platform eToro? August 23, 2018 If 2018 has been the year of football dipping its toe into the world of cryptocurrency, then this week saw some teams go a little deeper into uncharted waters. On Tuesday, seven Premier League clubs including Tottenham and Crystal Palace announced that they had signed commercial partnerships with investment platform eToro. What made these deals [...]
Barclays stops banking cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase August 14, 2019 Barclays is no longer providing banking services for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, according to reports by Reuters. The bank had been providing services to Coinbase since the exchange’s European expansion in March last year, making it easier for its users to purchase cryptocurrencies with sterling and withdraw funds. Coinbase, which is based in San Francisco, brokers [...]
Ten crypto founder things I wish I knew before I began June 2, 2020 My founder journey began one sleepless night in 2017 when my frustration with cryptocurrency markets hit boiling point. Buying, selling, paying and receiving ought to be simple, clear and fast but instead a cottage industry was growing in which intermediaries were obfuscating these processes with technical jargon, targeting hopeful but clueless punters and profiting unethically [...]
Interoperability and regulation: the key to DLT mass adoption June 23, 2020 If we were to rank all emerging technologies for their power to transform the world, DLTs (distributed Ledger technologies) would be right up there. And, among the many different types of innovation, blockchain would probably be nominated as the most significant because of its potential for creating secure, real-time communication networks with the ability to [...]
CryptoCompare market view: The alleged $850m ‘cover-up’ April 30, 2019 The Crypto world was rocked last week by the announcement from New York Attorney General Letitia James of a court order against the operators of the Bitfinex exchange and Tether – issuers of the stablecoin of the same name. The Attorney General alleges that the operators of Bitfinex and Tether engaged in fraud to hide [...]
The markets a week on from the worst European election results in Tory history June 3, 2019 While the pound begins to recover from the European election results, Bitcoin hits a new 2019 high. By Monday 27 April, the results of the European Parliament election had a clear implication for the UK: the incumbent government has lost the support of the public. It was the lowest share of the vote the Conservatives [...]
DEBATE: Is the G7 warning the end for Facebook’s libra? October 16, 2019 Now that the G7 has issued a warning against the cryptocurrency, is this it for Facebook’s libra? YES, says Ana Bencic, president of Nexthash. Facebook’s libra is the most high-profile example of a centralised cryptocurrency and is a living example of how it will be perhaps the last one to exist. The G7’s warning to [...]
US senators grill top exec over Facebook libra cryptocurrency July 16, 2019 Facebook libra, the social network’s brand new cryptocurrency, should be regulated as if it is a security, the US House of Representatives heard today. US lawmakers were due to grill Facebook executives over its libra coin today as both Democrats and Republicans prepared to scrutinise chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s latest project. Read more: Bitocin tumbles [...]
Crypto AM Shines its Spotlight on Appold June 9, 2020 Appold is an Emerging Technology Advisory and Investment company. The company is set up to act as the primary point of contact in the emerging technology industry. By doing so, Appold can facilitate and bridge the gap between institutions and the emerging technology itself as both advisor and investor.The company focuses on three primary client [...]