Recent new members to the Libra Association look set to contribute capital, potential user bases, and technical expertise to help the project win favour with regulators. Yet, contrary to what you might have heard, Libra really isn’t a threat to Bitcoin.The Libra Association recently added the Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify and crypto startup Tagomi to…
This is Human Generated This is an interpretation of VESA’s appearance on the Human Generated podcast by Omid Honari. The two met during a day of keynote speeches at the Mohammed Bin Rashid library, where as it turns out, both of their topics touched on not only art and its implications, but also spirituality.It…
Cast your mind back to 2017 – or not even so far back, if we’re being honest. The thought of traditional finance working with crypto was anathema. Most cryptocurrency companies struggled to get access to banking services, many global regulators and financial institutions were shunning Bitcoin and other digital assets entirely, and key opinion leaders…
Charles Hoskinson teases the Cardano community with more talk of birds, this time in a tweet featuring an image of an exotic bird pictured next to John Hancock. The text accompanying it read: “For some reason, I have this strong desire to tweet these two pictures. Must be the blending of my ornithological endeavors with…
50 Bitcoins that have been mined in the network’s first month have just been moved from an address Craig Wright claimed he owned. The address was part of a list of 16,000 addresses delivered by the bonded courier in January this year, to which Craig claims he had lost the keys to. This poses a…
One of the most popular online e-wallet services has just overhauled its cryptocurrency offering. From today, customers of Skrill will be able to exchange the various crypto assets the platform supports directly for Bitcoin. The expanded service is the latest example of a payments company offering some cryptocurrency functionality. However, modern financial services firms, such…
Bakkt, a digital asset platform which is set to introduce the very first physically-settled bitcoin futures, will launch later this year. And, according to Alec Ziupsnys, the launch could legitimize the dominant cryptocurrency before 100 million potential users per week. The chief innovation officer at BlockEdge Capital tapped on how Bakkt’s partnership with Starbucks was…
The next generation of influencers have arrived at the crypto scene and they are on a mission to oust outdated social media monetization practices and champion crypto-based content revenue models that empower autonomy, authenticity and consumer mass adoption. Worth $6 billion in 2020 and set to rise to $24.1 billion by 2025, influencer marketing is…
Those who want to support the blockchain community must call out the sarcasm and half-truths of shallow reviews. Or should we even bother about this issue? Journalistic freedom (or freedom of expression and its corollaries, press freedom and freedom of information) is both a right and a responsibility. If you throw a punch as a…
As part of a sponsorship deal, the kits of the UK Premier League football club Watford FC will now be adorned with the iconic Bitcoin “B” logo. The announcement comes following a three-year partnership between the team and Bitcoin sports betting platform Sportsbet.io. The company claims the move is part of a public awareness campaign.…