Here’s the latest set of prognostications from our friends at Crowdfundinsider. As we’ve already pointed out, we believe 2021 will be the year of the digital token. A major sideshow will be Decentralised Finance (DeFi) which we find, frankly, difficult to understand… Bitcoin to Be Used More Often As Store of Value While other digital […]
As promised, there’s more from the bitcoin-led assault on mainstream finance. This set of prognostication comes from our friends at Crowdfundinsider. Tomorrow we’ll be visiting the regulation of cryptos and digital tokens, plus the emergence of Decentralised Finance (DeFi). Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrency platforms such as Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Binance […]
First, we wish or lenders borrower and readers a very happy festive period – if festive it is – and a prosperous 2021. We’ll be blogging our predictions for that year here shortly. Meanwhile, we bring an early snippet of news for next year (see below). The resurgent Bitcoin is having its own second wave. […]
Bitcoin’s crazy journey from high to high is set to have major ramifications. There’s a whole education and training industry shaping up, for example. That’s possibly just a precursor to the massive change we’ll see if digital currencies are generally accepted as a medium of value exchange. But anyway, here’s the latest educational snippet, from […]
Today we bring you more news of the gathering pace of convergence between cryptocurrencies and mainstream finance. This is clearly driven by the price resurgence of flagship crypto, Bitcoin. What’s driving that is another matter… Finextra reports: Asset servicer Northern Trust and Standard Chartered have sought to capitalise on the growing demand for cryptocurrency services […]
In case you hadn’t noticed, Bitcoin has been enjoying a surge in popularity. The Covid-19 crisis parked interest in alternative stores of value – with gold the prime beneficiary. Now cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin once more to the fore, are firmly back in the spotlight. Lat week, the Bitcoin price reacjed $19,850, just above its previous highest […]
The financial world is in a state of flux. For once, the Pandemic is neither an effect and only arguably a cause. Digital currencies – cryptos – are on the march again. The simple fact remains that with the resurgence of Bitcoin – now approaching its highs of December 2107 – traditional monetary systems are […]
There’s a lot of interest in cryptos again. Bitcoin’s vertiginous climb to the heady height of three years ago is a sign of this. But much of the interest comes from decentralised Finance ( buzz area if ever there was one). Crowdfundinsider runs a primer on DeFi and other hot topics in a revved-up crypto […]
Money&Co.’s communications director is Martin Baker, the author and award-winning journalist. He has just written a short, very timely book that attempts, in the words of the cryptocurrency industry, to “mine” the truth from the fictions surrounding Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that underpins them. Did somebody really buy two pizzas using Bitcoin – […]
Cryptocurrencies are increasingly popular amongst peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms. We can see the virtue of an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in that it can create liquidity where there was one before. The ICO is an interesting animal. But we’ll not be doing an ICO just for the sake of liquidity. At Money&Co. we’re old-fashioned enough […]