Crypto Seen From Space: Creating The Right Mindset For Growth June 11, 2020 The other night, while on my terrace, sheltered under a flimsy tarp, I had one of those ‘moments of insight’ (it seemed meaningful at the time). Rain poured from the sky in volumes exchanges can only dream of with the local weather observatory classifying the storm as ‘black rain’. Waiting it out, I stumbled upon [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Dan Simerman talks Covid-19, Digital Assets and IOTA June 9, 2020 | City Talk Dan Simerman is an investor and technical product manager well versed in consumer psychology, digital assets and open source software development. Dan has a history of building software for Fortune 50 financial institutions, multinational media companies and strategic consulting firms. As Head of Financial Relations at the IOTA Foundation, Dan’s goal is to support technology [...]
Stop the world I wanna get off! June 9, 2020 The amazing accomplishments I described in my last edition seem a distant memory with what has been a horrific week around the globe. According to the W.H.O. Sunday, 7th June saw the highest number of deaths recorded with the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic shifting to Latin America, Brazil being ravaged the most it seems. [...]
Bitcoin Retests $10,000 Mark as Trading Volumes Keep Rising June 9, 2020 | Sponsored This week the price of Bitcoin (BTC) once again moved up to test a rally above the $10,000 mark, hitting a high close to $10,200 before dropping back to $9,500. The cryptocurrency has since been trading within this range, as trading volumes keep growing. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, saw a similar [...]
Empowering communities with alternative currencies towards a post-Covid economy June 9, 2020 With humanitarian operations becoming more frequent, global and protracted, stakeholders are going to need to find alternative, multi-year pools of funding as well as new financial mechanisms to increase effectiveness and efficiency of existing resources. There was a time when humanitarian organisations only focused on short-term emergencies while development organisations focused only on long-term socioeconomic [...]
The Evolution of Regulation June 9, 2020 Most people who are active in the use or application of blockchain technology, or who have lived through the development of the activity in the space, are more and more aware of the development of regulatory infrastructure intended to support this. However, many are not fully aware of the developments that are occurring in different [...]
Consortia: Chicken or Egg? June 9, 2020 Building a blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) solution adds no value if there is only a single benefactor. The most impactful solutions involve multiple stakeholders. In most cases, many of the enterprises are competitors who have agreed to work together to solve a common industry problem – or exploit a new business model. But [...]