Initial Coin Offerings – is history repeating?
Recently I attened an ICO Conference in London, and had a real sense of déjà vu from my .com days. With each pitch I listened to, I felt myself asking the question “Which business problem is this [...]
So I bought some Bitcoin – and you should too
In late 2017, I bought £20 worth of Bitcoin and £20 worth of Etherum via coinbase, the day that the price of many cryptocurrencies “crashed” from a high of around $19,000 the pervious week. I [...]
Firms are stockpiling Bitcoin to pay ransoms
In another bizarre Bitcoin story, according to the Daily Telegraph, firms are "stockpiling Bitcoin" in order to be able to pay cyber-ransoms, should they be hit with another WanaCry type ransom [...]
Bitcoin may be worth $19K but what can you actually buy with it?
Bitcoin has no natural intrinsic value. Can you buy a house with it? Can you use it for daily interactions? It may be valued at $US18,000 ($23,477) right now but what I want to know is how you [...]
Mining bitcoin could cost us the earth
The stories around Bitcoin keep coming. Not just that there is a bubble around the price of it, instead how there are environmental impacts around the energy required to “mine” the coins and keep [...]
The Australian Stock Exchange is betting on blockchain for their new clearing house platform
In the middle of what can only be called a Bitcoin bubble, news that the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is replacing their Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) with distributed [...]
Don’t get caught in the Bitcoin bubble. Blockchain will drive business transformation into 2018
News today that the UK Government is set to regulate the use of bitcoin to reduce the impact of money laundering means that this new technology is firmly in the news, along with the rapid rise to [...]