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EU falling short on fintech regulations

June 4, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Two key European Union laws—the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5)—are hindering the future growth of financial technology (‘fintech’) and blockchain businesses in the […]

Bitcoin is tech before it’s money

June 3, 2020 Comments are Disabled

To understand bitcoin, think of it as a technology rather than as a speculative financial asset, a leading computer scientist said this week. “People often talk about bitcoin as an […]

The new money rails

June 2, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Entrepreneurs are competing in an intensifying race to design the future standards for the transmission of money. Gauge war The western English town of Gloucester was once the frontline of […]

Bitcoin’s strange feedback loop

May 27, 2020 Comments are Disabled

The leading cryptocurrency’s design features cause it to behave weirdly: the more speculators buy bitcoin, the greater the short-term downward pressure on its price. “There are two features of bitcoin […]

Taking the difficulty out of bitcoin

May 25, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Bitcoin mining is one of the riskiest industries in the world. Now a new financial product aims to make the activity a little less dangerous. Hashrate futures, launched last week […]

We will make our own money

May 20, 2020 Comments are Disabled

In the last decade, everyone has been able to join networks like Airbnb and Uber to rent out their property or labour. The sharing economy now extends to electricity, where […]

The smart money upheaval

May 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

If money is ‘the most successful story ever invented by humans’, as Israeli historian Yuval Harari tells us, then the narrative is about to take a fantastical turn. That’s my […]

Telegram abandons blockchain plans

May 13, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Social network Telegram is abandoning its plans to launch a new blockchain, the firm announced yesterday in a blogpost from its chief executive, Pavel Durov. Together with the recent decision […]

Coronavirus jumpstarts race for digital ID

May 7, 2020 Comments are Disabled

Digital identity systems promise a way out of the coronavirus slump. But as they have major implications for money systems, politics and democracy, getting them wrong could have disastrous repercussions. […]

Supply lines

May 1, 2020 Comments are Disabled

For the last four decades we’ve been living through a period of globalisation, with economies becoming ever more specialised. That specialisation has also meant we are all more reliant on […]

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