626 Results from /crypto
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) may be the next phase of the digital revolution. Tech entrepreneur Rick Falkvinge boldly predicts that “Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.” There’s keen interest in cryptocurrency, and banks need to plan whether and to what extent they will participate. Confusion often surrounds the ...
03 June 2021 /retail /crypto Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Karen Hsu CMO at Appdome
National digital currencies have passed from ideas and prototypes into reality. In addition to the Bahamas, China and Sweden, have been running digital currency pilots, and within a few years, we could see dozens of central banks issuing digital currencies. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) differ from cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as n...
02 June 2021 /crypto
Retired Member
The year is 2009. A forum user, under the guise ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, sits down at their computer and is compelled to post something. They (an individual or group) have for years held a deep-seated distrust in centralised financial intuitions; that distrust has now most likely overflowed in to anger as they watch the events of the Global Financial C
02 June 2021 /startups /crypto Blockchain Observations
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
I have co-authored this article with Sean Kiernan, CEO of Greengage (previously DAG Global). What will Britain’s role be as a financial innovation centre, post-Brexit? Our economy depends on it, yet over a year after our official exit from the EU on 31 January 2020, the answer is still not clear. In 2018, we both published a report and article high...
01 June 2021 /regulation /crypto Digital Asset Class (DAC)
Adriana P Trader at Xray Trade
Bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, regulations, governments, bans, unworthy, revolutionary, so many news articles on the topics, none with any real worldwide summary. Each country reacts differently to bitcoin and its technology. The blockchain here is a little résumé of what is currently happening when governments face bitcoin. The fearful ones: Turkey...
31 May 2021 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
The massive popularity of crypto-industry is visible in numbers. For example, the bitcoin market cap reached more than $1 billion and blockchain is expected to hit $23.3 billion. The general market cap of cryptocurrencies is expected to hit $1087,7 billion by 2026. Due to these very eye-catching numbers, crypto banks remain on the rise, while the ...
28 May 2021 /crypto
This blog was co-authored by David Feltes, Managing Principal, Mark Profeti, Principal Consultant and Edward Pease, Consultant at Capco Crypto assets continue to dominate the conversation about the future of currencies, payments and fiscal policy. The Bank of England and UK Treasury’s decision to explore the potential for a UK central bank digital...
26 May 2021 /payments /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Ed Ackerman Director of Alliances & Partnerships at Onfido
Passwords have long been an archaic form of access security. A recent survey showed that one in 10 people would rather get a root canal or a filling than create a unique password for every online account they have. It’s not surprising to learn then that 50% of those surveyed reuse passwords and one in five have a core password that they adapt to ...
25 May 2021 /security /crypto Biometrics
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Long-time blockchain has been looked at as an isolated technology. Recently however we see a growing trend of blockchain being integrated with other technologies such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence amongst others. An interesting development that can be observed is the growing attention of corporates to use blockchain for IoT or Internet of T...
25 May 2021 /crypto Blockchain Observations
Adrian Pollard Trader and Crypto Enthusiast at ISTANEX
Despite the digital nature of Bitcoin, the process of mining requires a massive physical infrastructure to support it. How mining works is explained extensively here but simply put, miners are searching/mining for a lucky number and upon finding that number the miner gets freshly minted bitcoin as rewards for their work. This search for the lucky
21 May 2021 /sustainable /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
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