Risk vs reward December 9, 2020 BTC Euphoria attracts Risk MicroStrategy’s recent commitment to Bitcoin has turned the company and its CEO into a fully blown celebrity in the eyes of digital assets market participants. The fact that the company’s share price has performed so well since its venture into the Bitcoin market has only aided its cause. So much so [...]
Cryptosplosive demand December 9, 2020 Technological and Technical Convergence Technology stands at a major global tipping point. Numerous industries are converging due to blockchain which serves as the backbone to the whole cryptospace. At hand is the emergence of convergence in money, gaming, social networks, legal, supply chains, and intellectual property. Bitcoin is the base layer protocol which is the [...]
YFI – Unite and conquer December 9, 2020 | Sponsored In computer science, divide and conquer is an algorithm design paradigm based on multi-branched recursion. A divide-and-conquer algorithm works by recursively breaking down a problem into two or more sub-problems of the same or related type, until these become simple enough to be solved directly. In DeFi science, the Tony Stark of DeFi, Andre Cronje [...]
Privacy laws and blockchain December 9, 2020 The very nature of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) raises some interesting issues around privacy laws and their application to DLT. It is important for industry participants to understand this important area of law and its application to their business. Blockchain is a technology that enables the secure validation, recording, and sharing of data. The data [...]
Stricter regulation is actually a blessing December 8, 2020 | City Talk ‘Stay safe’ has become more than just a mantra these past six months. Governments have used the phrase to explain why restrictions to everyday life are needed. We read it on posters in the street and on shop doors. We even sign off our emails to friends and colleagues with it. Yet there is more [...]
Liquid December 8, 2020 Futures Flying Bitcoin traded steady around the $19,000 level as the aggregate futures open interest remained just shy of $7bn. The growing use of derivatives is evident across most platforms with the exception of Bitmex which continues to languish following its spat with regulators. Liquidity begets liquidity and it will take a lot more than [...]
Bitcoin sets a new all-time high and Ethereum starts its journey to ETH 2.0 December 8, 2020 Last week was one of the most exciting weeks in 2020 for the crypto community, with an abundance of bullish news for Bitcoin and the achievement of a huge milestone for the Ethereum Foundation. Bitcoin’s new all-time high is $19,911, and this price was reached at 11:00 UTC on December 1, according to data by [...]
Blockchain. What’s Stored In the Ledger? December 8, 2020 In assessing a company claiming that they are revolutionising their industry using blockchain, one must always ask the question: What are you storing in the ledger? More often than not, the information the people fronting the project haven’t got a clue. They rely on their tech teams to answer this question. And yet, it is [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Coinrule December 7, 2020 | Sponsored Coinrule is a beginner-friendly and safe trading platform enabling you to send automated trading instructions to your favourite exchanges such as Binance, Kraken and Coinbase. Its intuitive interface gives you the tools you need to compete with professional ‘Algorithmic’ Traders and Hedge Funds. Today, up to 90% of markets are managed by ‘bots’, run by [...]
Exclusive: Enviva’s CEO on biomass, climate change and pandemic challenges December 7, 2020 As climate change efforts and environmental considerations are increasingly an integral part of any mature investment strategy, investors turn more and more to providers of alternative energies. One of those solutions is biomass energy. City firms, however, are divided over whether they should pump capital into biomass as the technology of burning raw substances for energy [...]
