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Solana could run harder as we move towards ‘SOL 2.0’
by Mathieu Ziaei, Portfolio Manager & Risk Officer at Criptonite Asset Management Solana (SOL) is known as Ethereum’s (ETH) direct competition. It was the only chain that had volumes anywhere near...
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The anti-poverty potential of CBDCs and Uptober positivity
The age of easy money seems to be well and truly behind us. The graph, below, of UK monetary aggregates from the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis shows how much liquidity has been floating around the...
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Dubai’s crypto carousel: M2 takes the stage
by Lorna Blount As Dubai’s relentless summer sun dipped to a mere 35 degrees Celsius, the city’s crypto scene has been turning up the heat. However, there’s one new name hot on everyone’s lips this...
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Rumours of Ethereum fraud ‘bigger than FTX’? Where’s Brenda from Bristol when...
I’ll start with something for the meme lovers. Does anyone remember Brenda from Bristol, who in response to a BBC interviewer’s question, asking her what she thought about Theresa May’s decision to...
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Will pro-Bitcoin Javier Miliei’s Argentina election win be a catalyst for BTC...
Javier Milei’s election as Argentina’s new president on Sunday has sparked intense debate about the potential adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in the Latin American country. Having spoken...
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Fintech awards season – a reason to be cheerful
I was honoured last week to be invited to collect an award for most progressive regulation. The winning regulation that I was proud to be associated with (as a member of the Special Public Bill...
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2024 is shaping up to be a year of elections that could benefit crypto
The year 2024 promises to be a pivotal one for the global political and economic landscape. More than 40 countries – including the UK, the US, Taiwan, El Salvador, Russia, Portugal, India, Mexico,...
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Crypto finally feels the full force of the law
Most people who were ‘early’ to crypto have a story about how they lost their private key, their laptop, their other passwords or were phished by scammers. This writer was the victim of a crypto theft...
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Closing the digital divide is essential to achieving environmental justice
Top 10 emerging eco-friendly and sustainable projects united under environmental hub… In many countries around the world, there are great environmental initiatives that help local communities, whether...
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COP28 ‘talking shop’ is all well and good, but actions still speak louder...
Finally the world seems to have woken up to the fact that it might actually be ending and this year’s Conference Of the Parties (COP28) is expected to be the most influential in its history – 28 years...
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Bitcoin helping people of Lebanon navigate financial crisis
Lebanon is grappling with one of the most severe financial crises in its history, marked by hyperinflation, a devalued currency, and widespread economic instability. In these times of economic...
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Bitcoin and Ethereum – where are we as the seasons change?
When you bring up cryptocurrency in polite conversation, one thing is almost certain: everyone and their dog has an opinion about the top two crypto currencies, Bitcoin and Ethereum. Some are on the...
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The traditional financial system is broken – Bitcoin fixes this
To many, the Prime Minister’s recent Net Zero agenda speech is another masterclass in political doublespeak. Speaking of shielding families from “unacceptable losses” it’s hard not to laugh in...
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AI governance – who’s in control?
Alan Turing, the scientist who formulated the concept of artificial intelligence, predicted in 1951: “At some stage…we should have to expect the machines to take control.” Since the advent of ChatGPT,...
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The FATF’s Travel Rule for crypto may not be as heavy as it seems
The Travel Rule… No, not the one where the airlines limit your bags to 23kg per person which, if you’re me, means that you must learn the word for “heavy” in multiple languages when checking in your...
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Racing to decentralisation as we drive the Bitcoin revolution
It was an unusually warm October Sunday at the Silverstone race track where one racing team was revving up awareness for Bitcoin. The family-owned team of ‘Bitcoin Racing’ – led by principal Andrew...
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Fake news on BlackRock ETF drives up both the price of Bitcoin and the demand...
Bitcoin yesterday surged around 7% in just 10 minutes on the rumour of the BlackRock spot ETF being approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the SEC. Cointelegraph posted on X.com –...
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Here’s what I believe sets Bitcoin apart from the stock markets
BlackRock is accumulating Bitcoin, and there’s a possibility that a spot Bitcoin ETF could get the green light by the end of the year. Those who know about Bitcoin’s scarcity and the looming supply...
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Are NFTs over or are they growing up into real assets?
Oasis are not everybody’s cup of tea (I’d rather drink cold and tasteless coffee), but Noel Gallagher got it spot on earlier this year when he described vinyl ‘as the poor man’s art...
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Bitcoin hitting $50,000 this year doesn’t seem overly optimistic to me
Bitcoin hit a 17-month price high on Tuesday amid rising confidence that US financial regulators will imminently approve stock market funds that invest directly in the cryptocurrency. The price of the...
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How the metaverse and gaming are bridging worlds
Many people are not so sure what exactly Web 3 gaming is, unless they happen to work in the space. It’s definitely not gambling – more online gaming; definitely not a funky crypto-only type of game –...
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Bitcoin whitepaper is only 15 years old, but it’s changed the world forever
The Bitcoin whitepaper, authored by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto and published in 2008, is 15 years old today. Only 15. Since then, Bitcoin has become one of the best-performing assets of the...
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Is ‘China’s century’ quickly becoming India’s?
Some of you may recall that we are currently in what was dubbed “China’s century”. How well is that going, do you think? I’m sure most will recall the ‘one child’ policy instituted in 1980. That is...
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Why the next part of the Government’s AI safety plan should be citizen...
This week the PM hosted world leaders and tech innovators at the AI Safety Summit. The PM has emphasised the existential risk of ‘frontier’ AI – and The Bletchley Declaration – named for Bletchley...
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Opera hits the crypto high notes with Minipay in Africa
Africa has always been ahead of the game when it comes to new technologies. Not a phrase that is usually applied to the continent, but there is one particular example of how the rest of the world...
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UK’s crypto industry braced for regulatory change
The UK’s proposed crypto regulatory regime has been a hot topic of discussion lately, and for good reason. It’s a divisive issue, with some people supporting it and others opposing it. The full impact...
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What the King’s Speech means for digital assets
King Charles III has made his first Kings Speech as monarch setting out the government’s legislative agenda for the next parliamentary session. I will be getting involved in three significant pieces...
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Where now for crypto after the Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX scandal?
Now that Sam Bankman-Fried – known more colloquially as ‘SBF’ – has been shown comprehensively to be a fraud, the time has come to review where crypto stands, especially in light of the recent jump in...
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Brace yourselves for the Bitcoin FOMO rush
There’s a new alpha in town, and it goes by the name of Bitcoin. While much of the financial world, quite rightly, remains preoccupied with the well-known, established narratives, some investors have...
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Blockchain and Web3 keep coming up with solutions to problems
Web3 decentralisation offers solutions that Web2 could never solve. But the reluctance to change by centralised systems is fierce. The old guard sits with immense power high up the scale of Maslow’s...
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