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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, [...]
London blockchain startup Cobalt nabs investment from the Singapore Exchange May 4, 2018 Cobalt, a London-based startup which is aiming to shift foreign exchange (FX) markets onto blockchain technology, now has Asia’s largest currencies exchange on board. The Singapore Exchange (SGX) today made a “strategic investment” in Cobalt, which aims to use distributed ledger technology (the tech behind bitcoin and blockchain) to improve firms’ infrastructure and risk management. [...]
Post Cambridge Analytica: Four opportunities for a new deal on personal data March 27, 2018 The way information is being collected and sold on the internet is creating stark new power imbalances in our societies. The Cambridge Analytica revelations remind us how easy it now is for unaccountable actors to capture personal data, and abuse that power in ways that could have a profound influence on the outcomes of democratic [...]
Blockchain technology is set to play a power chord in the music industry by helping to solve copyright issues May 10, 2018 The internet has allowed consumers to create, share and listen to more music than ever before. It has also created headaches for the music industry, specifically over how to keep track of copyrights in a complex global economy and how to accurately allocate royalties to artists and labels. One London-based tech startup, JAAK, hopes to [...]
As London Blockchain Week starts, it’s worth remembering that bitcoin is a drop in the ocean to compared to blockchain opportunities January 18, 2018 London Blockchain Week kicks off tomorrow, bringing together experts from around the world to share their new and exciting applications for blockchain technology. It marks an important moment for blockchain’s move to the mainstream, with several indicators suggesting that 2018 will be a tipping point for the innovative technology. Big businesses are already starting to [...]
Unilever, Walmart and Nestle are starting a major blockchain project with IBM August 22, 2017 Unilever, Nestle, Walmart and a handful of the world’s top retail and food brands are joining forces to tackle food safety with the help of blockchain technology. The 10 companies will work with IBM on a new project that will look at how the distributed ledger technology (DLT) behind bitcoin could be used to track [...]
The Blockchain Brothers: BTL’s Guy and Hugh Halford-Thompson on running the world’s first public blockchain firm July 10, 2017 Based on Fenchurch Street, it’s not so often I mosey down to Canary Wharf. I suffer a terrible contradiction of mind when I do. Its Dubai-lite pastiche is soulless and underwhelming, yet as a location, its essence is one of unassailable purpose: a financial powerhouse, driving upwards of £100bn into the UK economy every year. [...]
Bitcoin mail bomber ‘snapped’ after customer service refused to reset his password November 9, 2018 A man who tried to blow up a Hackney cryptocurrency firm which refused to reset his password has been jailed for over six years. A court in Sweden found Michael Salonen guilty of attempted murder this morning after he sent a mail bomb to London-based Cryptopay. He was also sentenced to six months for sending [...]
Bitcoin: German tech magazine t3n trials paying employee salaries in bitcoin in agreement with PEY and BitPay March 23, 2016 A German tech magazine will now allow employees to receive a portion of their salaries in bitcoin after trialling the service since November. A group of employees at t3n, a digital economy and lifestyle magazine based in Hanover, have been receiving €20 worth of bitcoin with each monthly salary payment. However, this will now be ratcheted up [...]
JP Morgan trials Bitcoin technology blockchain with former executive Blythe Masters January 31, 2016 JP Morgan has become the latest firm to invest in Bitcoin technology blockchain, through a collaboration with start-up Digital Asset Holdings (DAH). The bank has announced plans to trial the technology on its loan funds in an effort to improve liquidity for international clients, and will also seek out other applications within its investment banking business. [...]