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 – […]
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are becoming increasingly common as a form of fund-raising amongst small businesses. ICOs are in some ways a cross between equity raises and peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. Technically, the company takes a loan in in its newly created currency, and lenders, who will have paid for their cryptocurrency in mainstream, fiat currency, […]
There’s a lot to say about the volatile cryptocurrency market. Our friends at Orca Money, a P2P commentator and analyst, share our curiosity. They profess themselves “fascinated by the dramatic rise of cryptocurrencies in the past year. It’s taken Nutmeg, the UK’s leading robo-adviser 5 years and substantial marketing spend to reach 50,000 users. At […]