Why The Next Step is Crucial September 25, 2018 The last 18 months of ICOs, and now Token Offerings, is often characterised as the ‘The Wild West’. So reminiscent of the early day of Crowdfunding, which so nearly got ‘regulated away’. How can it be fixed? We are clearly past this turning point with the world of Token Crowdfunding. Not least because so many [...]
Crypto and cybercrime – a marriage made in heaven? September 18, 2018 For years, cybercriminals have been experimenting with new ways to steal and extort money from victims. More recent trends involve the boom in cryptocurrency. Here, Tyler Moffitt, Senior Threat Research Analyst at Webroot, explores the relationship between cybercrime and cryptocurrency. Basic ransomware attacks, where a cybercriminal demands payment in exchange for something they’ve taken from [...]
Crypto and cybercrime – a marriage made in heaven? September 18, 2018 For years, cybercriminals have been experimenting with new ways to steal and extort money from victims. More recent trends involve the boom in cryptocurrency. Here, Tyler Moffitt, Senior Threat Research Analyst at Webroot, explores the relationship between cybercrime and cryptocurrency. Basic ransomware attacks, where a cybercriminal demands payment in exchange for something they’ve taken from [...]
Proof-of-Truth: A New Approach to Communicating and Verifying Knowledge September 11, 2018 The notion of truth has always been a popular target of debate. What exactly constitutes truth? In attempt to answer this question, multiple theories of truth have emerged, such as theories of correspondence and coherence. Correspondence theory, pragmatic in its relation of judgement to reality, in some sense, falls victim to this simple idea that [...]
Audit Straight to (Blockchain) Video September 11, 2018 Audit is about to change – so is regulation. While regulators around the globe grapple with Blockchain technology and its implications, including tokenisation of securities, fractionalisation of assets and ICOs, others – including at least one of the co-inventors of the technology – are working on a quiet revolution they believe is destined to transform [...]
Up the blockchain beanstalk in search of a golden goose August 31, 2018 Remember the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, when the hero traded his very last asset – the valuable family cow – for a handful of magic beans, and by some miracle of climbing the resulting beanstalk he ended up living happily ever after, thanks to proceeds from a bag of gold, a golden goose, [...]
Brains, Chains and Autobots August 28, 2018 They’re usually talked of as completely disparate fields; but ‘Brains and Chains’, or Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies, have already started to converge – despite claims they’re philosophically incompatible. So where’s the join? Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the like have invested billions in AI over the years. Billions more are being poured into Blockchain ventures [...]
LBX Weekly Market Overview 28th August: A ride on the crypto carousel with LBX, The London Block Exchange August 28, 2018 The markets have been taking us on a rollercoaster. We witnessed a market cap of over £650BN in January 2018, but since reaching that peak it has dropped over 75%. Today, the space is valued at £156BN – a cap reminiscent of last November. Despite the widespread price drops of cryptoassets, however, crypto-based businesses have [...]
City A.M.’s Crypto Insider meets Oliver Worsley, Co-Founder and CEO of Worsleys Client Services August 28, 2018 Over the past few months I have attended many blockchain and crypto events and one young energetic entrepreneur kept crossing my path – Oli Worsley. It’s evident when meeting Oli that he is not your typical developer with a niche idea for disruption, nor is he the traditional financier looking to cash in on crypto [...]
Why it’s time blockchain stopped being used as lipstick on the pig August 28, 2018 Blockchain. Distributed Ledger Technology. Cryptocurrency. These words can add more value to any company than any genuine technology, strategy or growth. Shares in Stapleton Capital doubled on one day when it changed its name to Blockchain Worldwide. Bitcoin Services, formally known as Tulip BioMed, grew 42,500% last year. This is nostalgic: in December 2001, academics [...]