Understanding Cryptocurrencies
Do you know what the global transaction speed for Bitcoin is globally? Seven transactions per second – yes SEVEN. In comparison Visa and MasterCard process around 24,000 per second all day [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]