The Lord Mayor’s Appeal speaks to Dr Joanna Abeyie on mental health May 21, 2020 The Lord Mayor’s Appeal’s This is Me is committed to changing attitudes around mental health and strives to create healthier and more inclusive workplaces by reducing stigma, dispelling myths, and improving employee wellbeing for good. It helps organisations encourage their employees to open the conversation around mental health by sharing their personal experiences, be of [...]
London comes together to #endthestigma May 20, 2020 Our mental health matters. To amplify the importance of kindness, both to others and to ourselves, and demonstrate a commitment to ending the stigma around mental health, senior leaders from mental health organisations London wide have come together to lend their voice to a common message and offer support and solidarity. In this video they [...]
Why mental health at work matters May 19, 2020 Mental health affects us all. 9 in 10 employees have been touched by mental health challenges, either themselves or a family member, whether this is workplace stress or a significant illness (Accenture, It’s not 1in4; It’s all of us report, 2018). A problem shared is a problem halved – research shows that talking openly about [...]
Bitcoin Halving sees Miners echo Satoshi Nakomoto May 19, 2020 Last week Bitcoin (BTC) began trading around the $8,600 mark following the Bitcoin Halving on Monday evening, before seeing a substantial surge upwards throughout the week to once again test the important $10,000 level. BTC is trading at the time of writing at $9,757. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, began the week [...]
Crypto AM: Shines its Spotlight on Electroneum May 19, 2020 Imagine a cryptocurrency for social impact that solves many of the issues the 1.7 billion unbanked people around the world face today. Now envision one with the potential to empower hundreds of millions anywhere with instant access to the global digital economy unlocking for them the opportunity to earn crypto and use it to live [...]
How Telegram failed the Distributed Ledger, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency industry May 19, 2020 This week Telegram announced that the Telegram Open Network (TON) project would be discontinued as the SEC’s winning of a preliminary injunction barred Telegram from launching TON or distributing its Gram tokens. Pavel Durov, Founder of Telegram then explored general themes relating to US dominance of the global financial system “…the people outside the U.S.… [...]
GiveLIVE! Shake off the chains & hack the crisis May 19, 2020 We may be living in what Malcom Gladwell describes as a “Tipping Point”, serendipitous conditions that spark massive global movements. During a pandemic, what is poignant is not the crisis itself but the collective action that follows. If we perceive the pandemic as a Goliath overtaking the world, we’ve already lost. Instead, let’s turn our [...]
The Green Ribbon campaign goes online May 18, 2020 Based on a successful campaign by PwC, The Lord Mayor’s Appeal, through This is Me, is running the Green Ribbon campaign for a fourth year to #endthestigma around mental health. We all have mental health and we know that now, more than ever, it is important to look after our wellbeing. In light of Covid-19, [...]
Veteran Hackers, Software Engineers and Creatives May 12, 2020 Hartej Sawhney, Co-Founder and CEO at Zokyo discusses Zokyo’s approach to the digital asset ecosystem. Approximately $2.5 million dollars is stolen daily from cryptocurrency exchanges, with most hacks unreported to the public. There has been a shift in the motivation of cybercriminals from hacking traditional finance to digital assets. Binance, one of the world’s most [...]
The Bitcoin halvening is happening but you’ll be missing the bigger picture May 12, 2020 Around the 12th May, Bitcoin will be having its long anticipated third halvening. While the focus has been on the bitcoin network itself and its correspondence to Bitcoin’s status as a digital ‘hard money’, I argue most onlookers will be missing the bigger picture. Bitcoin’s block reward to miners will be cut by 50% at [...]