Bank of England ramps up CBDC ambitions after offering £200,000 wallet contract to bidders December 12, 2022 The Bank of England has underlined its desire to pursue a CBDC by putting a contract for a sample wallet out to tender.
Crypto AM Spotlight: Advances in economic transformation with Convex December 12, 2022 Crypto AM shines its spotlight on the Convex Foundation as it looks to make monetary and value exchange services available to all.
Goldman Sachs eyes bargain crypto firms as contagion spreads December 12, 2022 Data from CryptoCompare shows the price of Bitcoin traded sideways throughout this past week, dropping from around $17,300 to $17,000.
Price of Bitcoin hardly moves as investors anticipate interest rate announcement December 12, 2022 Bitcoin is trading at $16,965 this morning, down 1.18% over 24 hours and down 2% in the last week, while Ethereum is down 1.5%.
The special relationship with the US is fertile ground for investment into the UK December 12, 2022 Last week, a new bilateral energy deal between the UK and the US, to reduce global dependence on Russian gas, underlined the continuing strength of the “special relationship”. In a joint statement, Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden stressed the need for “allied countries to deepen their cooperation to ensure resilient international systems which reflect our [...]
Planet Crypto: Build your own FTX Advent calendar with Sam Bankman-Fried December 11, 2022 Those humour merchants at Planet Crypto walk the legal tightrope this week with a few Yuletide digs at the digital asset Grinch that is SBF.
FTX collapse has no winners, unless you’re a news site or a hardware wallet December 9, 2022 David F Carr, Senior Insights Manager at Similarweb, crunches the numbers and discovers some surprising winners in the FTX debacle.
Blockchain could shake up ESG December 9, 2022 Meet Dr Jane Thomason International ESG Campaigner (Chair, Kasei Holdings, London) Dr Jane Thomason spent a lifetime working across the globe in international health care in emerging economies, and now thinks Blockchain can be the solution to many of the problems she experienced. From energy consumption, humanitarian disasters, to poor access to quick finance, the [...]
Cyrus Fazel: My family was ‘nouveau poor’ – and I wanted to be wealthy December 9, 2022 Swissborg CEO and founder Cyrus Fazel meets Jillian Godsil as he discusses mass adoption and his love for Ethereum.
What’s that coming over the hill? Is it regulation? December 9, 2022 IDnow's Jason Tucker-Feltham believes the FTX collapse has invited the inevitable, but urges crypto companies to embrace regulation.