Digital Assets

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.

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.

Digital Assets

As Bitcoin hits record high – are we entering the Paytech Era?

December 16, 2020

As the valuation of Bitcoin reached an all-time high of over $20,000 USD today (surpassing the previous record from 2017), it can no longer be ignored just how meaningful cryptocurrencies are. This is a new era of payments where we are beginning to realize that times are changing and we need to adapt or else fall far behind.

Africa Digital Assets

Akoin: Sorry, Blame it on the 54+ currencies in Africa

November 17, 2020

The Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) is almost complete, a $2 billion sustainable metropolis in the Republic of Kenya. Work started in 2014 and some of the features include a 35-acre Disney-style water park, the world’s largest convention centre, a 36-hole Golf Course (the largest in Africa). And if you weren’t convinced yet, MMTC has more SOLAR street lights than any City in the world as of November 2020.

Blockchain Digital Assets Startups

Sequoia’s Saplings, Robinhood and the rise of the Crypto Hedge Fund

August 4, 2020

“First it was the rise of the developer; now it’s the rise of the designer. That’s true regardless of sector, stage or business model. Robinhood and Figma have completely different products, but they’re both succeeding in part because of the quality of their product design.”

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