Audit Straight to (Blockchain) Video September 11, 2018 Audit is about to change – so is regulation. While regulators around the globe grapple with Blockchain technology and its implications, including tokenisation of securities, fractionalisation of assets and ICOs, others – including at least one of the co-inventors of the technology – are working on a quiet revolution they believe is destined to transform [...]
Up the blockchain beanstalk in search of a golden goose August 31, 2018 Remember the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, when the hero traded his very last asset – the valuable family cow – for a handful of magic beans, and by some miracle of climbing the resulting beanstalk he ended up living happily ever after, thanks to proceeds from a bag of gold, a golden goose, [...]
Brains, Chains and Autobots August 28, 2018 They’re usually talked of as completely disparate fields; but ‘Brains and Chains’, or Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies, have already started to converge – despite claims they’re philosophically incompatible. So where’s the join? Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the like have invested billions in AI over the years. Billions more are being poured into Blockchain ventures [...]
LBX Weekly Market Overview 28th August: A ride on the crypto carousel with LBX, The London Block Exchange August 28, 2018 The markets have been taking us on a rollercoaster. We witnessed a market cap of over £650BN in January 2018, but since reaching that peak it has dropped over 75%. Today, the space is valued at £156BN – a cap reminiscent of last November. Despite the widespread price drops of cryptoassets, however, crypto-based businesses have [...]
City A.M.’s Crypto Insider meets Oliver Worsley, Co-Founder and CEO of Worsleys Client Services August 28, 2018 Over the past few months I have attended many blockchain and crypto events and one young energetic entrepreneur kept crossing my path – Oli Worsley. It’s evident when meeting Oli that he is not your typical developer with a niche idea for disruption, nor is he the traditional financier looking to cash in on crypto [...]
Why it’s time blockchain stopped being used as lipstick on the pig August 28, 2018 Blockchain. Distributed Ledger Technology. Cryptocurrency. These words can add more value to any company than any genuine technology, strategy or growth. Shares in Stapleton Capital doubled on one day when it changed its name to Blockchain Worldwide. Bitcoin Services, formally known as Tulip BioMed, grew 42,500% last year. This is nostalgic: in December 2001, academics [...]
Can Publica Disrupt the Disruptor-in-Chief? August 21, 2018 Blockchain and ICOs are not just for payments, but hold promise to revolutionise a wide range of industries – from music and wine to logistics. Amazon famously disrupted publishing – but will blockchain disrupt the disruptors? As most authors will tell you, not only is it near impossible to make any money at it, but [...]
LBX Weekly Market Overview 21st August: A ride on the crypto carousel with LBX, The London Block Exchange August 21, 2018 Last week, the total crypto market cap dropped below £160 ($200) billion for the first time this year, as alternative cryptoassets continued their capitulative process. What happened? By the end of July, altcoins' performance decoupled from bitcoin’s as the original cryptoasset remained stable and its competitors started falling. Then, last Monday, ether – the token [...]
A-Team Mission: Make Bitcoin Mainstream August 14, 2018 What if Microsoft came together with Starbucks and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on a mission to take Bitcoin mainstream? A strong enough signal that cryptocurrencies are going mainstream? Well they have! Resulting in a new platform dubbed Bakkt. Meanwhile what's the significance of the first international scientific conference, backed by the first peer-reviewed [...]
‘Exodus’: Top Talent Heading to Cryptoland? August 7, 2018 If you want to know what the future holds then one of the better ways, especially for the near term, is to see where the top talent are investing their time and careers. In another strong signal that cryptocurrencies are here to stay and that blockchain innovation will redefine the mainstream, in much the way [...]