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George Connolly President at Oneledger
Cryptocurrencies and the environmental challenges Bitcoin lovers and detractors have been fiercely arguing whether Bitcoin, the No. 1 cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, is good for the environment or not. Bitcoin evangelists say that "the government-controlled currency and the entire financial infrastructure that supports it r...
19 May 2021 /crypto
The biggest challenge the world faces today is absolute economic decimation for a large number of its population as we attempt to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and the havoc it has wrought on economies, businesses, communities and individuals around the world. Like many we surmised the critical difference between the approach to the 1918 Sp...
12 May 2021 /crypto /covid-19
Derek Boirun CEO at Realio Fund
The dust has settled on the GameStop saga, and so has the stock price. Noise about Robinhood's questionable trading restrictions is calling into question the feasibility of current market infrastructure in our new, digitally connected world. The redditors came and saw, but they didn't conquer in their valiant mission to "beat the hedge funds....
22 March 2021 /inclusion /markets
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Notwithstanding the various benefits of blockchain technology, there are still a number of big challenges to overcome before mass adoption can be realised. These range from low scalability to lack of regulation and limited number of qualified people. In some of my previous blocks I already went into more detail into these challenges and possible s...
28 February 2021 /crypto
Cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, are facing increased regulatory scrutiny, and that is not strange. Warnings from regulatory watchdogs all over the globe have come amid a wildly volatile ride for Bitcoin and other crypto currencies. Bitcoin prices quadrupled in 12 months’ time reaching an all-time high of more than $ 40.000 on 8 January after...
31 January 2021 /crypto
The year 2020 has almost come to an end. It has been a historically tough year for many. A number of events happened that were not included nor expected in my – and many others - 2020 blockchain trends. Especially the COVID-19 pandemic that not only intensified trends that were already underway, but also generated new trends. It is a tradition to ...
18 December 2020 /crypto
Ripple, the blockchain payments platform, recently launched its third annual "Blockchain in Payments Report 2020: From Adoption to Growth”. The survey that was conducted in the August-September period this year amongst 854 respondents from payment services providers in 22 countries gives us some interesting and positive insights in the global...
30 October 2020 /crypto
Smart contracts are one of the most popular and talked about subjects being built in the blockchain industry. As processes are increasingly digitalised, it is becoming necessary to find a way to make reliable, digital business agreements. Smart contracts are a great alternative for replacing traditional contracts, that are often complex, slow and ...
30 September 2020 /crypto
Prasoon Mukherjee Director | Head of Securities Services | GSC-India at Societe Generale Bank
Is blockchain capitalist or socialist? Libertarian or collectivist? Leftwing or rightwing? The answers to the above questions are neither or both, as we shall find out in this article, scraping through the past 2500 odd years of human thoughts in shaping societies, culture, commerce, and thereby relating it to the root paradigm that this technolog...
08 September 2020 /crypto /markets
Early July I wrote my blog Blockchain and Interoperability: key to mass adoption. There I concluded that “we may say that blockchain seems to be at the threshold of widespread acceptance and adoption”. This conclusion was confirmed by Deloitte’s Third ‘Global Blockchain Survey 2020’ studying the investment and development trends in blockchain techn...
24 August 2020 /crypto
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