Crypto A.M. shines its Spotlight on CommerceBlock, London’s most innovative BlockChain infrastructure company August 18, 2020 | Sponsored Hype in the blockchain and DeFi space has reached new, overwhelming heights. It can be difficult to differentiate between fact and fiction, but when you do find a project providing innovative technical solutions, it’s a breath of fresh air–especially when their primary focus is on development and not creating vacuous buzz. Led by financial technology [...]
7 Reasons why spending with Crypto is broken August 18, 2020 Another week, another avalanche of announcements about companies offering payment gateway solutions to merchants so consumers can spend their crypto more easily. While this makes for decent clickbait headlines, if you peek under the hood even momentarily, you will quickly understand that none of this makes any financial or market sense. 1. Crypto is too [...]
Is bitcoin gearing up for an unprecedented move? August 13, 2020 As debates on bitcoin and alternative asset classes circle the internet, all signs point towards bitcoin leap-frogging the entire cryptocurrency industry into the next paradigm – and the best part is: this is not hyperbole. Indeed, the news that emerged this week about MicroStrategy purchasing a total of 21,454 bitcoin ($250,000,000) cannot not be taken [...]
Cryptocurrency and blockchain can help solve many problems for the unbanked and the financially excluded August 11, 2020 Successful British entrepreneur Richard Ells has been around computers and coding from a very early age, and at age 26 he launched an internet business that would later win him an award, but it was not until he launched cryptocurrency start-up Electroneum in 2017 that he felt he could help make a difference in people’s [...]
The Financial Action Task Force’s latest mission… Global Stablecoins August 11, 2020 In October of 2019, four months after Facebook announced its ambitious Libra project to the world, the G20 assigned a new mission to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF): to investigate and report on the risks of an emerging breed of cryptoasset – the “global stablecoin”. This article will discuss the headline findings of the [...]