Crypto AM’s community play their part in the war against COVID-19 June 25, 2020 Ever since the Crypto AM Awards 2020 on the 11th March and the subsequent lockdown enforcement, it was clear that the new normal required new and lateral thinking with the government’s clarion call for support in the war against the coronavirus COVID-19. Now, months later, I reached out to Crypto AM’s global community to hear [...]
Businesses must avoid becoming the avoided June 24, 2020 On top of a tragic human toll, the COVID-19 pandemic has battered businesses – especially small ones. This is evidenced by the United Kingdom’s April 2020 gross domestic product, which experienced its largest drop in a single month in history, falling 20.4%. As restrictions stemming from the pandemic lift and people emerge from their homes [...]
The Future of the Staking Economy June 24, 2020 Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper emerged from the global financial crisis of 2008. In early 2009, the Bitcoin network launched with a headline in the genesis block: “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”. The motivations of the project were clear. With the frailty of our financial systems exposed, the quest to create an alternative, [...]
Is this Bitcoin’s crescendo moment? June 24, 2020 Bitcoin is fast approaching a crescendo moment that might set the tone for the coming weeks against a backdrop that could push the coin to all-time highs this year. A story of consolidation As bitcoin approaches the end of the second quarter, the coming monthly close could dictate the tone of the next few weeks [...]
Blockchain is Terrible for Supply Chain. Right? June 23, 2020 Blockchain gets a lot of bad press in general. Either the technology is being overhyped. Or it is being confused with cryptocurrency and taking on all the negativity around that. There is plenty of coverage around how blockchain won’t scale and does not have sufficient performance to be viable in the enterprise. And blockchain doesn’t [...]
Interoperability and regulation: the key to DLT mass adoption June 23, 2020 If we were to rank all emerging technologies for their power to transform the world, DLTs (distributed Ledger technologies) would be right up there. And, among the many different types of innovation, blockchain would probably be nominated as the most significant because of its potential for creating secure, real-time communication networks with the ability to [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on 220 June 23, 2020 | Sponsored A New Generation of Wealth with 220 The World of banking has been undergoing a revolution in the last decade, with many challengers coming for the retail banking market, yet there has been one region of banking that hasn’t been truly challenged for nearly 600 years, Private Banking, that is, until now. 220, is a [...]
DeFi booms as Etheruem miners increase network limits June 23, 2020 | Sponsored This week the price of Bitcoin (BTC) dropped steadily from a near $9,600 high to a low of $9,275 before it started recovering. The cryptocurrency is now trading at $9,400, and is still range bound, looking to test the $10,000 mark. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, started the week at $220 and [...]
