Scottish rocket company to clean up space debris from 2023 February 4, 2021 The UK could become a world leader in tackling space debris after successful trials of a ‘space tug’ align with a new UN space initiative, the Scottish rocket company behind the development said today. Skyrora said that its orbit transfer vehicle, part of its Skyrora XL rocket, could clear debris, reposition satellites and remove redundant [...]
Ethereum 2.0 staking, a worthwhile investment? January 19, 2021 Background The Ethereum network today is overrun with traffic, causing transaction fees to spike to levels that are not affordable for many use cases. This is partially due to the success of DeFi projects, where users don’t mind paying the high transaction fees because of the financial value of the transactions being made. (In Ethereum, [...]
We need more crypto companies to IPO to increase digital asset scrutiny and adoption January 6, 2021 As a publicly listed digital asset trading business, the recent announcement of Coinbase’s IPO has naturally put a spotlight on us at Voyager Digital and we welcome their move as it will improve trust, transparency and above all, adoption of digital assets. It is imperative that the crypto asset space ups its game as there’s [...]
Twitter hack bail hearing ‘Zoombombed’ with porn August 6, 2020 A virtual bail hearing for the American teenager accused of hacking Twitter in a high-profile bitcoin scam last month was interrupted by participants “Zoombombing” the court with pornography. Graham Ivan Clark, the 17-year-old from Florida who is accused of masterminding the biggest Twitter hack in history, appeared in court via Zoom yesterday to appeal his [...]
Apple co-founder Wozniak files bitcoin scam lawsuit against Youtube July 23, 2020 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is leading a lawsuit launched by tech entrepreneurs against Google and its video site Youtube, over a series of bitcoin scams which use his name and image. Wozniak has accused Youtube of failing to deal with the problem, and ignoring his requests to have the videos taken down. The scam, which [...]
Crypto AM’s community play their part in the war against COVID-19 June 25, 2020 Ever since the Crypto AM Awards 2020 on the 11th March and the subsequent lockdown enforcement, it was clear that the new normal required new and lateral thinking with the government’s clarion call for support in the war against the coronavirus COVID-19. Now, months later, I reached out to Crypto AM’s global community to hear [...]
2020: There is Still Time June 18, 2020 As we were preparing for the unavoidable lockdown, The Economist published the most descriptive cover: picture of the Earth with a “Closed” sign hanging across it. Indeed, it does feel like 2020 shouldn’t have happened. We started with Hong Kong protests, followed by the Australian fires, death of the NBA legend Kobe Bryan, finalization of [...]
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 [...]
The last mile is critical to mass adoption and inclusion. May 26, 2020 Global technology infrastructure projects providing the vital backbones for the modern world critically must have compatible last mile solutions in order for mass adoption of new tech to take place leading to mass inclusion – crypto and blockchain are no exception. Price Watch Bitcoin (BTC) has retreated somewhat from testing US$10,000 having had a pretty [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Minima April 28, 2020 Minima, based out of the UK and Switzerland, is a compact, scalable and secure cryptocurrency and the world’s first truly decentralised Blockchain protocol that runs entirely on mobile phones. The Founders of Minima hail from opposite ends of the Maths and Marketing spectrum. Co- Founder and Chief Architect Paddy Cerri is a true crypto evangelist. [...]