It’s been a great year for the blockchain industry, but the UK needs more champions In conversation Crypto AM editor-at-large James Bowater discusses every corner of the crypto industry with Sean Kiernan, founder and CEO of Greengage.
Creating a future of access to financial tools for everyone with MELD Crypto AM's James Bowater discusses MELD with chairman Ken Olling and CEO Hai Nguyen Quang.
Africa’s huge potential could be the key to mass adoption for crypto Crypto AM's James Bowater discusses Africa with Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson...
Decentralised block production on Cardano April 1, 2021 Speaking exclusively with City AM's James Bowater, Aparna Jue, Product Director at IOHK, tells us about a key milestone with the Cardano blockchain.
Native tokens on Cardano February 11, 2021 Last week, IOHK, developers of the Cardano blockchain, updated the platform’s ‘native tokens’ testnet. The upgrade provides multi-asset support, allowing experimenters on the testnet to test and become familiar with utilising cryptocurrencies from other blockchains on Cardano and creating their own tokens prior to mainnet deployment. The update introduces the ability to create ‘native tokens’. [...]
Can Tokenisation Save the Rainforest and Cure “Climate Cancer”? December 17, 2020 J.P. Thieriot in conversation with James Bowater. J.P. is the co-founder of the Universal Protocol Alliance (UPA) an alliance of companies out of which the first carbon neutral Bitcoin has been born. First, can we understand the mission of the UPA? The mission started off a couple of years ago, addressing the consumer side of [...]
NFTs: A hot trend for hackers December 15, 2020 2020 has been another milestone year for new, emerging crypto trends. From the research conducted by our Hacken team, we found that Decentralized Finance (DeFi) undeniably saw the most explosive growth with the total value locked in protocols up 2,000% since January 1, from US$690m to US$14.5bn. However, the Non-Fungible Token (NFTs) space has also [...]
Crypto AM: Blair Halliday of Gemini in conversation with James Bowater October 8, 2020 As access to the crypto market broadens, customers are increasingly conscientious about the exchanges on which they transact. Exchanges are no longer being evaluated purely on factors like volumes traded or trading fees; customers are concerned about which companies take proper care of their funds and their data with effective security and compliance. In fact, [...]
James Bowater in conversation with Nathan Kaiser, Chairperson of the Cardano Foundation September 29, 2020 It’s hard to believe that this time last year I was taking part in a tree-planting ceremony in Plovdiv, Bulgaria with the senior teams from the Cardano Foundation, EMURGO, and IOHK to celebrate Cardano’s second birthday. The world was very different, with us all jetting in for the occasion. Ironically, the COVID crisis has done [...]
Expectation drives price. Utility drives value. July 14, 2020 Digital asset prices are driven by two factors; value and expectation of future value. When expectation of value increases at a faster rate than real value, you get a bubble. If real value grows faster than expectations of value, you get an opportunity. Looking back on the 2017 super-cycle it is painstakingly obvious that it [...]
