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The North American Blockchain Association Announcement at NABS2025

09/10/2025 No Comments

It’s the third time that the team from DisruptionBanking has attended the North American Blockchain Summit, and each year the event gets better and the …

Powering Bitcoin Accumulation: The American Bitcoin Strategy

09/10/2025 No Comments

It was a warm afternoon in Las Vegas back at the end of May 2025. ...

Crypto Goes Mainstream: America’s 2025 Surge in Adoption

09/10/2025 No Comments

In just a few years, the U.S. has gone from viewing crypto as a risky ...

Why Riot Platforms is Focusing on Data Centers, and not just Bitcoin

06/10/2025 No Comments

It is hard to read the daily news or follow the financial markets and not ...

DeFi’s Oracle Problem, with ChainLinkGod

July 5, 2021

“While we tend to choose to ignore the noise from the Chainlink community, we feel obliged to react in this instance due to the gravity of the accusation.” Kunkel explains, “MakerDAO does not participate in nor benefit from liquidations in neither the Maker Protocol nor other protocols.

Banking Digital Assets

Why is Citi embracing Crypto?

June 28, 2021

Fraser shared her policy regarding cryptocurrency before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee last month. She shared how her company was taking a ‘measured approach’ to cryptocurrency as the bank sought “to understand changes in the digital asset space and the use of distributed ledger technology, including demand and interest by our clients, regulatory developments and technology advancements.”

Blockchain Digital Assets

From CypherPunks to DeFi

June 10, 2021

Since around 2018, we have seen the emerging cryptocurrency trend morph into a broader decentralised finance (DeFi) movement.

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The Crypto Diary of a Hodler

June 10, 2021

Jon had been watching CryptosRUs on YouTube again. He had spent hours following what users had been posting and commenting in Bitcoin & Crypto groups on Facebook.

Banking Digital Assets

Bank of England publishes Discussion Paper on New Forms of Digital Money

June 7, 2021

In the United Kingdom, there appears to be strong political momentum behind a digital pound: earlier this year, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced that the Bank of England was to look at developing a central bank-backed digital currency - “Britcoin.”

Banking Digital Assets

Full Fat, High Caffeine, Maximum Strength – Britcoin

April 28, 2021

The Chancellor’s Taskforce, announced last week at the UK’s Fintech Week conference, will “engage widely with stakeholders on the benefits, risks and practicalities” of allowing consumers and businesses to open an account with the Bank of England.

Capital Markets Digital Assets

The dismal debut IPO of Coinbase

April 20, 2021

Where now for #bitcoin? It is widely accepted. A crypto exchange or 'Crypto company' has been listed. Institutional investors and central banks are increasingly adopting it. So where is the problem?

Digital Assets Investment Banking

Hey Citi, your bitcoin report is NOT embarrassingly bad

April 7, 2021

It is a matter of ‘when’, and no longer ‘if’, banks completely adopt crypto trading, and are accepted into the wider crypto eco-system. You can be pretty sure that when the time comes, Citi will work with companies like BlockFi and exchanges like Uniswap.

Digital Assets Regulator

Coinbase’s Listing on Nasdaq signals Crypto adoption

March 22, 2021

A majority of our net revenue is derived from transactions in Bitcoin and Ethereum. If demand for these crypto assets declines and is not replaced by new crypto asset demand, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected.

Digital Assets Regulator

Crypto – popular in the US, Russia, Nigeria and a few other countries

March 2, 2021

“Bitcoin is like the first plane built by the Wright Brothers. They built it using human intuition and imitation of birds, long before fluid dynamics were formulated. Bitcoin was built by Satoshi using intuition and heuristics, and he didn’t start with a theoretical framework as the foundation.”

Digital Assets

As Bitcoin nears $1 trillion market cap, can comparing Crypto to Forex trading help understand what next?

February 18, 2021

Bitcoin has already overtaken the market cap of huge companies like Tesla and Facebook. It is still a bit behind Apple, Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet (Google), but once it gets to just above $55,000 per coin, it will join the $1 trillion+ club.

Digital Assets

Cuba, Libya and Syria comprise Top 10 Crypto-loving countries

February 11, 2021

Countries which rank lower on The Human Freedom Index, or which are politically turbulent for other reasons, feature frequently in the top 10.

Capital Markets Digital Assets

Speculative fictions: GameStop, Bitcoin and beyond

February 9, 2021

All assets experience ups and downs, albeit not that extreme, but how can you tell which direction Bitcoin will go from £30,000?The problem is you can’t.

Asia Digital Assets

The Launch of China’s Digital Yuan: Innovation or Surveillance?

January 21, 2021

Trump famously accused China of manipulating its currency to gain an undue advantage when trading with its’ partners. We covered the story of problems between the U.S. and China in our story about Hong Kong in June last year.

Digital Assets

Is the SEC fallout the end of the road for XRP?

January 14, 2021

We wrote about the dire warnings released by the FCA just this week as well. Following on from which it is also widely reported that banks in the UK are preventing their customers from depositing gains from their cryptocurrency assets.

Digital Assets Regulator

Bitcoin Never Sleeps, can the Regulators and Investors afford to?

January 12, 2021

This time the peak came on the 8th of January, and perhaps the FCA might have released a statement a few days before the peak, rather than on the Monday morning following the peak.

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