Q&A: Trading Cryptos as CFDs October 12, 2020 What are the different options when trading cryptocurrencies? There are a couple of different options for trading cryptos. You can buy the physical cryptocurrency with a provider that usually gives you an online wallet which you must learn to use to store your crypto. More recently trading platforms have emerged, but these remain unregulated in [...]
Bitcoin in context: the quantum leap October 8, 2020 Once again, bitcoin is on the precipice of another major directional move, which would dictate its end of year trajectory as we head deeper in the final quarter of a tumultuous 2020. Indeed, barely a week into October and the influx of headlines has everyone glued to their screens again; so much so that I [...]
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, [...]
This week’s legal roundup October 7, 2020 Charles Kerrigan, Partner at CMS Law writes today’s legal briefing which is a sports roundup up of progress towards institutional acceptance of digital assets. These stories are unrelated except that they show the range of important constituents working on these questions at the same time. Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, gave [...]
Charles Hoskinson Talks Poets And Cuneiform Beauty And Blockchain October 7, 2020 The first law of podcasting is to ensure that the record button is on, the second law of podcasting is to ensure that the record button is on… et cetera, et cetera. That’s why in June 2020 the world was robbed of the best-ever conversation not recorded on a podcast between yours truly and Cardano [...]
FCA bans sales of crypto-derivatives to retail consumers October 6, 2020 The Financial Conduct Authority has announced rules banning the sale of derivatives related to certain types of crypto-assets to retail consumers. The ban will affect the sale, marketing and distribution of any derivatives – including contracts for difference, options and futures – as well as exchange traded notes that relate to unregulated cryptoassets. Read more: [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Portraits of a Mind – the world’s largest blockchain art project October 6, 2020 In just 24 hours time, BLOCK 21 from Portraits of a Mind will make history as the first artwork and NFT of our culture to be sold at Christie’s New York. Just eleven years on from its inception, Satoshi’s codebase currently hangs alongside masterpieces by Picasso, Cezanne, Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Warhol. It is a [...]
5 terrible ways for to apply Blockchain Technology in IoT and Cybersecurity October 6, 2020 Last week, my friend and colleague Monty Munford wrote as to how crypto would never take off until cybersecurity improves. And whilst I agree with the premise – It is going to take a whole lot more than ‘enhanced cybersecurity’ for crypto to become mainstream. When people write about cybersecurity and blockchain, they are usually [...]