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Rodrigo Zepeda CEO at Storm-7 Consulting Limited
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting Cumulative analysis of The Merge In Part I of this ‘Ethereum (ETH) Merge’ Primer Series of blogs, we provided a background to the Ethereum platform and its originally envisaged range of potential applications, such as sub-currencies (token systems), financial derivatives, savings wallets, and ‘decentral
12 September 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
Retired Member
BDC Consulting’s most important mission is to help clients optimize the value of their business. The question then becomes: how do you assess a company’s value correctly? In this article, we will talk about the key valuation methods and the main mistakes that startup founders make when using them. Introduction An accurate valuation of a business ...
09 September 2022 /crypto
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting Introduction Part III of this Primer Series will seek to explain the importance of certain events that will occur after The Merge within the Ethereum ecosystem, and why these events are so important. These events include the concept of Ethereum ‘Triple Halving’, the proposed Ethereum ‘Shanghai’ upgrade,
07 September 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
Cryptocurrencies experienced a brutal loss this year, diminishing by $2 trillion in value since the height of a massive rally in 2021. The value of the top 100 cryptocurrencies on September 5, 2022, is lower than it was nine months earlier. The last similar period of major losses happened between 2017 and 2018, which was largely caused by the abun...
06 September 2022 /payments /crypto Business
Christophe Kasolowsky Partner at Baringa Partners
It is hard to go more than a few minutes without reading an article on the current state of Cryptocurrencies. Business icons like Bill Gates and Jamie Diamond have publicly dismissed them as “based on greater fool theory” and “worthless” respectively, while Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, just announced he will use Bitcoin to build a new, decentrali...
06 September 2022 /crypto /predictions Cryptocurrency Insights
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting A brief history of Ethereum developments It is helpful to briefly understand historical developments pertaining to Ethereum, in order to frame the developments ushered in by The Merge. On 1 April 2014, the Ethereum Yellow Paper was published which set out a technical definition of the Ethereum protocol (
06 September 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting Introduction This ‘Ethereum (ETH) Merge’ Primer Series of blogs, will seek to describe what the event referred to as ‘The Merge’ is, and why it is so relevant and important to the overall evolution of the Ethereum platform. It has now been proposed that The Merge is scheduled to commence on Thursday 15
05 September 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
Ravishankar Poonjolai Consulting Partner at TCS
Globally, investments into digital assets such as bitcoin, alternate coins, stablecoins, NFTs and DeFi are on the rise, with more than 300 million users. Also, institutions investing in cryptocurrency increased from 33% in 2019 to 52% in 2021 according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Crypto Outlook. After mainstream adoption, many global regulators ap...
29 August 2022 /wealth /crypto Alternative Investments
King Leung Global Head of Financial Services and FinTech at InvestHK
All around the world, central banks are exploring and experimenting with the potential of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), with around 100 countries having launched projects related to the technology to date. While the technology is still in its infancy, it has the potential to fundamentally alter the global payment landscape and internationa...
29 August 2022 /wholesale /crypto Asia Financial Services
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting Role of the Monetary Authority of Singapore In June 2021 the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) commenced an investigation into the Singapore-based investment fund ‘Three Arrows Capital Pte. Ltd.’ (3AC Singapore) (MAS 2022). On the face of it this consisted of a one-year investigation which culminate
26 August 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
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