Bitcoin’s anonymity: clever or criminal? December 4, 2018 Professor Kevin Curran believes that the growing phenomenon of email scams where attackers claim they stole your password and hacked your webcam while you were visiting naughty websites is enabled in large part due to the difficulty in associating a Bitcoin address with any other address in the Bitcoin network. This is a key feature [...]
Crypto A.M. shines its Spotlight on CryptoCompare December 4, 2018 CryptoCompare is the global cryptocurrency market data provider, offering retail and institutional investors real-time, high-quality and reliable market and pricing data on 5,600+ coins and 260,000+ currency pairs, bridging the gap between the crypto asset and traditional financial markets. Today sees the launch of their new API service in response to customer demand for more [...]
Why everybody should be doing the conservation work workout November 30, 2018 If we compress human evolution into 24 hours, then for around 23 hours and 58 minutes – over 99 per cent of our existence – we lived, worked and thrived in the great outdoors. In this mostly challenging environment, despite the lack of medicines, technology, communications and our relative weakness to many predators, we became the world’s [...]
Context and infrastructure essential for crypto’s coming of age November 28, 2018 Just like psychologists know that human behaviours are a blend of nature and nurture, institutional participants need to see the right infrastructure and context to participate in crypto at scale. The context is improving rapidly. Clear and stable regulation is the bedrock for institutional engagement. Rightly so as we all want to understand the rules [...]
Crypto A.M. shines its Spotlight on PropertyBay November 27, 2018 Dunk Island, its first project, is an exotic investment offer with the vision to create a world-class resort where eco-tourism and technology meet holistically with a tokenized foundation. A venture that will re-imagine one of the most stunning tropical islands in one of the greatest wonders of the world, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – boasting [...]
Blockchain collaborators envision a new digital token standard for shares November 21, 2018 Right now, there is a shift from public token offerings to regulated token offerings, often in the form of equity tokens. A number of blockchain companies around the world are busy creating their own digital standards for tokenised corporate shares. David Siegel, Chairman of 20|30, a start-up in the FCA sandbox that is testing the [...]
MJAC & Crypto Compare London: Showcasing leaders of the blockchain industry November 21, 2018 MJAC on November 30th will see a host of key industry players discussing and debating the hot topics within the blockchain and cryptocurrency spheres. Obi Nwosu, Coinfloor’s CEO, and Nick Chong of Liquid by Quoine will deliver the two keynote speeches. Claire Wells and Marieke Flament from Circle will discuss Opportunities and Threats for the [...]
Crypto A.M. shines its Spotlight on CityBlock Capital November 21, 2018 This year has been a tumultuous year for cryptocurrency markets, but here on Wall Street, blockchain technology and the development of a regulatory compliant, digital asset ecosystem is moving full steam ahead. Over the past several months, the London Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and Fidelity have all announced plans to launch digital [...]
NEX Exchange Profile: Good Energy Group plc November 19, 2018 Good Energy, the renewable energy company based in the heart of Wiltshire, is truly of the zeitgeist. It is one of the leading suppliers of renewable power in the UK today; it is also one of the main proponents for action to prevent further climate change, thanks in large part to the energetic dedication of [...]
Why cyber is the new value driver October 11, 2018 How do you measure the value of a company? Market capitalisation, EBITDA, cashflow, asset value, IP and goodwill are just some of the traditional metrics. But nowadays, there is a new addition, a company’s cyber security posture. Until recently, considered by many to be a peripheral issue for companies outside of the technology sector, the [...]