When Blockchain becomes invisible April 28, 2020 When you throw the switch on the wall (or ask your home automation system) to turn on the light – the light comes on. You don’t spend much time thinking about electricity, how it arrives at your home, the wires it flows through or the circuits that make everything work. You trust that it will [...]
Crypto firms move to stop bad actors as Bitcoin price predictions go wild April 28, 2020 Last week the price of Bitcoin (BTC) moved from $6,800 to close in on the $7,000 mark. Successfully breaching the $7,000 level, the cryptocurrency’s price jumped to over $7,500, and has continued its momentum to trade at the time of writing at $7,700. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has moved up from [...]
Coronavirus: Our digital shift has implications for blockchain April 22, 2020 Of the many lessons being learned during the current Covid-19 pandemic, an important one is that many industries are capable of going digital in an emergency. The rapid digital transition has been more agile where blockchain was already in place. Blockchain’s lasting legacy will be its role in the continuation of positive digital change post-crisis. [...]
How will Blockchain revolutionise financial services? April 22, 2020 | City Talk In a recent PwC report, it was estimated that distributed ledger technology could reduce financial services infrastructure cost between US$15 billion and $20 billion per annum by 2022. This would positively impact both business and consumer banking in many unexpected ways. To truly understand the magnitude of the problem Blockchain can solve, one should look [...]
S2F projections to send bitcoin to 6-digits? April 14, 2020 | Sponsored As global markets grind to a snail’s pace, the architect behind bitcoin’s stock-to-flow prediction model has gone on the record to say that his work isn’t dead accurate, but order of magnitude right. Indeed, bitcoin’s leading indicator forecasts that the number one cryptocurrency is still set climb to new all-time highs after the May halving [...]
Bitcoin’s correlation with gold increased during equities market sell-off April 14, 2020 Last week the price of Bitcoin (BTC) rose from $7,100 at the start of the week to a $7,400 high before the flagship cryptocurrency endured another round of sell-offs that saw it drop to $6,700. Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation, also went from $150 to a $175 high before dropping back to [...]
Virtual conferences: The show must go on April 14, 2020 | Sponsored The blockchain conference industry is rampant, with seemingly a major event in a major city around the world every couple of weeks, from Seoul, to Istanbul, to New York you name it you’ve got it. As an entrepreneur and digital nomad It’s a fantastic way to travel the world whilst also growing my network and [...]
Transparency: Who Cares? April 14, 2020 One of the most significant talking points around blockchain is the idea of transparency. Looking at the first project built using blockchain principles – bitcoin – we can see how transparency is a critical part of service and the value that it brings. The Bitcoin blockchain is accessible to anyone at any time. Every transaction [...]
Job Registry on the Blockchain April 7, 2020 Jobs. One of the most important things for both people and companies in the coming months will be the ability to match people with jobs. There will be hundreds of thousands of people who will be suddenly without a job. And there will be thousands of companies who survive the current crisis and come out [...]
How companies can navigate the Wild West of today’s blockchain ecosystems April 7, 2020 Piers Ridyard, CEO of Radix DLT, gives an overview to James Bowater, City AM’s Crypto Insider on the benefits independent testing of Distributed Ledger Technology platforms can bring to the industry and why businesses should take note. The rise of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) startups and cryptocurrencies in the last decade has sparked its fair [...]