The role of whitepapers in the Crypto Asset Market October 19, 2020 The rapid global rise of crypto assets as a new asset class has seen governments and regulators around the world scramble to identify suitable regulatory regimes. Out of the dust of that rise, we can now see the emergence of nascent regulatory frameworks, from the European Commission’s Digital Finance Strategy, to Gibraltar’s proposed ICO Regulations. [...]
Why bitcoin going to $1,000,000 is unlikely and horrifying October 19, 2020 Bitcoin maximalists continue to shriek about their beloved bitcoin and how the price is going “to the moon”. Bitcoin may be lacking fundamental characteristics of a Ponzi scheme, but there are plenty of similarities. The endless pumping of bitcoin on Twitter and all manner of other social media is much the same as those operating [...]
New wealth to be made and lives to be saved by democratising space October 16, 2020 Many of us forget that a large portion of our daily lives and activities are based around technology and data that originated from space applications. These range from influencing how the crops you consume yield to the visualizations your favorite artist uses during their concert. With the Space market set to reach a trillion dollars [...]
Technically speaking: a data analysis of Uniswap October 16, 2020 The biggest crypto craze of the moment is decentralised finance, and the most popular decentralised exchange is Uniswap. The Novum Insights analyst team has pulled together data on the most active of the 14652 trading pairs on Uniswap and it has been a rollercoaster ride as to where volume is. The sector has lured in [...]
A fairy tale or history in the making? October 16, 2020 Once upon a time, in a strange and complex binary kingdom, there lived a king and a queen who were giving the power back to the people. The rulers of the legacy system ignored them at first, then they laughed at them, and then… Could that be a bedtime story in the not so distant [...]
Introducing MiCA: Europe’s proposed cryptoasset laws, explained October 16, 2020 As the European Commission launched its long-awaited Digital Finance Strategy in late September, a senior official announced: “The future of finance is digital”. The Commission sees digital finance as a weapon in its arsenal as it seeks to relaunch and modernise the European economy to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, and the Strategy sets out [...]
There are few ways to skin a crypto podcast October 15, 2020 Podcasts are pretty weird, but Steve Jobs was always a big fan as I reported for Forbes more than two years ago. He insisted that podcasts were the audio of the future and while he could never have predicted (or could he?) how they would prosper during a time of plague, his insistence they be [...]