Happy birthday, bitcoin: Onwards to a brave new crypto-fulled world October 29, 2018 A decde ago this Wednesday, just weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the start of the financial crisis, an anonymous figure published the famous essay – “Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system”. Bitcoin’s mysterious creator, known under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, has to this day never been unmasked, but his invention has since [...]
City A.M.’s Crypto Insider Speaks to Jonathan DeCarteret, Co-founder & CEO of INDX Capital October 23, 2018 INDX co-founder and CEO JonathanDeCarteret’s crypto experience will be a familiar story to many fellow crypto investors. In 2017, Jonathan decided he’d had enough of constantly checking his crypto portfolio, weathering a volatile market and rarely seeing his family in the process. Thinking there must be a more stable way to generate revenue in the [...]
G4S muscles into cryptocurrency security with offline storage facility October 18, 2018 G4S has muscled its way into cryptocurrency storage launching a new security service to protect assets from criminals and hackers. The security firm has launched the service after estimates showed more than $1.2bn of cryptocurrency has been stolen since the beginning of 2017. More than $500m was taken earlier this year from Japanese exchange Coincheck. [...]
Crypto A.M. shines its spotlight on Sensify October 16, 2018 Sensify, a UK based company, has developed an Internet of Things software platform for connecting any type of IoT asset. The platform allows the customer to track, trace, monitor, verify and secure its assets in real time. Assets that can connect to the platform include RFID, sensors, telematics devices, inventory and machinery. The IoT market [...]
Coinbase plans for Brexit with Irish expansion October 16, 2018 Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will today unveil the first stage of its Brexit contingency plans, opening up a secondary office in Dublin while preserving the heart of its operations in London. The new office, which will primarily house mostly support staff, is intended to act as the company’s European base as the UK prepares to exit [...]
Bitcoin may take years to regulate, but does not pose risk to global stability October 11, 2018 Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin do not pose a risk to financial stability, but need to be monitored, while the government may take two years to regulate the sector, two new reports have warned. City-headquartered law firm RPC said any government regulation could take a long time to come into force. Based on past extensions of the [...]
Crypto: Unchained but regulated October 9, 2018 Crypto is the Millennials’ Rock’n’Roll” says Stephen Castell, ”and Dr Joseph Muscat, the Malta Prime Minister, has emerged as the world’s top crypto rocker, bravely positioning his beautiful sun-kissed sandstone island country, Chair of the Commonwealth, and President of the Council of the EU, as the leader in regulating Blockchain applications, ICOs, cryptocurrency trading and, [...]
London VC firm Mosaic Ventures closes $150m second fund for startups October 8, 2018 London-based venture capital (VC) firm Mosaic Ventures has today announced the close of its second fund, Mosaic II, at $150m (£115m) for startups across the capital and beyond. Intending to cut cheques at series A-stage for between $3m and $7m, Mosaic Ventures has previously backed the likes of London automated mortgage broker Habito, crypto wallet Blockchain and period-tracking app [...]
The times, they are a-changin’: Innovation is happening faster than ever before, especially in the world of blockchain October 2, 2018 Innovation is happening faster than ever before, especially in the world of blockchain. So too with ICO NEWS, which today becomes the TOKEN INTELLIGENCE column, reflecting the changing and broadening out of what started out as just ICOs. Now we have the rise of ‘Tokenised Securities Offerings’, along with TGEs (Token Generation Events – not [...]
Blockchain and the Future of Humanity: Economy. Environment. Ethics October 2, 2018 Crypto Challenge Forum is the world’s major industry event. It will take place on 28-30 October 2018 at the iconic Central Hall Westminster, London, connecting global thought leaders, policy makers, investors and startups from across the world for a three-day top content event. It will be attended by industry leaders, think tanks, institutional and private [...]