BitMEX owners charged for ‘illegally operating’ crypto exchange as DeFi keeps rising October 6, 2020 This week CryptoCompare data shows the price of Bitcoin (BTC) moved steadily up from around $10,200 to an $11,000 high, but did not break through and ended up correcting back down to $10,500. It has since moved back up to $10,650. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation, started the week around $360 and [...]
Bitcoin banking app Mode lists on LSE’s main market October 5, 2020 Bitcoin banking app Mode has started trading on the London Stock Exchange, in the latest sign that life is starting to return to the capital’s IPO market. The UK fintech today listed on the LSE’s main market, raising £7.5m by way of a placing of 15m new ordinary shares. It is considerably more than the [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on UCROWDME October 5, 2020 Fusing together $25 billion dollar industries within the innovation and consumer insights space could well be what global consumers and businesses really need and demand, says Greg Griffiths identifying what our team sees as ‘a huge gap in the market that impacts global progression’. It was back in early 2014 that the raw concept for [...]
Spotting the right opportunity, at the right time October 1, 2020 For an active trader, volatility always represents opportunity. As the most traded commodity in the world, this is especially the case for traders in the oil markets. Oil has traditionally been viewed as a relatively safe bet. While there are countless examples of a stock price dropping greater than 50 per cent in an instant [...]
State of the market: Mining October 1, 2020 It was the year that Bitcoin maximalists have been looking forward to for some time, all in hope that the infamous block reward halving will result in an aggressive price squeeze, causing Bitcoin to finally break out of years of doldrum price action. However, consensus market expectations do not always materialise, be that due to [...]
Industry 4.0 meets DeFi September 30, 2020 The Historical Roots Over two centuries ago we learned that there is a more efficient way of manufacturing and we shifted from hand production to machines through the use of steam power and water power. That era was marked as the First Industrial Revolution in our history books. Followed by adoption of electricity, installations of [...]