Cardano hard fork ‘Mary’ proudly announced while the Saylor Musk saga keeps on turning February 25, 2021 Bitcoin markets appear to settle but Elon Musk continues to make mischief with his tweets about Doge coin.
DeFi: Unlocking liquidity for consumers & institutions February 25, 2021 Decentralised Finance (called ‘DeFi’ for short) refers to the distributed applications or financial ‘protocols’ that are built on a public blockchain and are community governed rather than controlled by a centralised entity or intermediary. One way to think of it is as a system of open source “money legos” or components that can be assembled [...]
More than a dozen companies exit $11bn Nord Stream 2 project to avoid US sanctions February 24, 2021 Baker Hughes Co, AXA group and 16 other companies have stopped working on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to avoid US sanctions, according to multiple media reports this evening. Russian energy company Gazprom and its partners are in the process of building an $11bn pipeline that will supply natural gas from Russia directly [...]
Crypto: Despite the risks, is Bitcoin becoming mainstream? February 24, 2021 2020 was a record-breaking year for Bitcoin, and this year may not be any different. Despite its spectacular drop last week, the crypto frenzy is far from over. Banks, well-known business leaders and investors all seem to jump on the digital currency bandwagon. Bitcoin has come a long way since it first launched in 2009, when [...]
How stablecoins provide a blueprint for tomorrow’s money February 24, 2021 Tether CTO Paol Ardoino explains how stablecoins could provide a blueprint for the future of the world finance.
Tether settles with the NYAG and Square buys the dip, sparking rapid recovery for crypto markets February 24, 2021 A glance at the crypto world as we unpick the recent drama of the markets.
Reddit website goes down as Gamestop shares jump February 24, 2021 Reddit, the self-titled “front page of the internet”, crashed last night as shares in amateur trader favourite Gamestop climbed once again. The site, which is accessed by millions of people daily, went down at around 9pm on Wednesday. Shortly afterwards Reddit tweeted that it had identified the issue and its systems had recovered. It came [...]
Elon’s Bitcoin bet hands Jeff Bezos back title of world’s richest person February 23, 2021 Elon Musk is now merely the second richest person alive, after the eccentric entrepreneur’s Tesla ploughed $1.5bn dollars into Bitcoin, which has plummeted in value in recent days. Tesla’s share price has fallen around 25 per cent from its peak, amid sell-off of high-flying technology stocks. Tesla’s fall was compounded still by the fall in [...]
Bitcoin price crashed! Here is what comes next February 23, 2021 The price of Bitcoin Ever since I started writing articles about Bitcoin for CityAM, the price of Bitcoin has gone up over 100% exactly as expected. However, over the past 72 hours, the price of Bitcoin has retraced 23%. There are a few reasons for this and I will detail them in this article. I [...]
Tesla rival Lucid Motors gears up for $24bn stock market float February 23, 2021 A luxury electric vehicle maker looking to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk’s Tesla is set to go public in a blank cheque deal that will value it at $24bn (£17bn). California-based Lucid Motors has agreed to merge with Churchill Capital IV, a special purpose acquisition company (Spac) set up by former Citigroup banker Michael [...]