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 [...]
A regulated blockchain can empower governments, corporations, and people June 22, 2020 For too long, blockchain has been regarded as an obscure technology powering an industry that cannot be trusted. According to a recent trust survey by Edelman, three in four people said they were not familiar with blockchain and cryptocurrencies, while 60 per cent believed that these technologies were not regulated enough. So how can we [...]
The digital asset inflation hedge beyond gold June 18, 2020 The extent of money supply increases needed to facilitate stimulus packages by sovereign central banks to counter the negative effects of the current crisis will dictate the inflationary pressures that ensue. Current world currencies are driven in a large part by expectation value and when confidence wanes there is a flight to alternative stores of [...]
The Death of the Cloud June 18, 2020 The Cloud: a concept of genius, with its nature of simplicity and powerful, soft and fluffy values. The notion underlying it is that data is held in a disembodied form that is universal, as omnipresent as the clouds which envelop the world, intermeshing and interlinking so completely that there is only one single cloud which [...]
2020: There is Still Time June 18, 2020 As we were preparing for the unavoidable lockdown, The Economist published the most descriptive cover: picture of the Earth with a “Closed” sign hanging across it. Indeed, it does feel like 2020 shouldn’t have happened. We started with Hong Kong protests, followed by the Australian fires, death of the NBA legend Kobe Bryan, finalization of [...]
Crypto AM turns two years old today – One week, four anniversaries! June 18, 2020 Two years ago on the 18th June the first edition of Crypto AM was published in London’s Morning Wire newspaper as a double page spread. With Crypto AM as a weekly feature, Morning Wire became the only mainstream publisher to do this, thus providing an educational voice for the industry to share knowledge with the [...]