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Cutting the risk of exchange

March 19, 2020 Comments are Disabled

A few minutes or two days? In dangerous financial times, the time it takes to settle a transaction—exchange cash for goods—is vital. Now gold market participants are using new tech […]

Tether launches gold-backed digital token

January 23, 2020 0 comments

Tether, the stablecoin issuer, is expanding its product range with the launch of a new digital token representing a troy ounce of gold. The token, called Tether Gold (XAUT), will […]

Time-stamping gold with bitcoin

October 16, 2019 0 comments

For its supporters, bitcoin is digital gold, providing an immutable historical record of financial transactions. For goldbugs, nothing beats the scarcity and durability of the yellow metal. Now a new […]

UK regulator takes hardline approach on cryptoassets

July 5, 2019 0 comments

The UK regulator says it wants to stop the sale of bitcoin derivatives to the general public. The proposed ban is too broad, unfair and will be ineffective, say critics. […]

Blockchain’s securities market birth pains

March 12, 2019 0 comments

If there’s one obvious use case for distributed ledger or ‘blockchain’ technology, it’s in providing the future accounting systems for the world’s share and bond markets. At a stroke, shared […]

Polluters or saviours? Bitcoin miners revisited

January 23, 2019 0 comments

Bitcoin miners secure the cryptocurrency’s network and mining has evolved into an energy-intensive, highly specialist industrial activity. But is bitcoin mining a totally unnecessary waste of electricity? Or could it […]

Loosening control of the financial infrastructure

October 17, 2018 0 comments

Although the world’s payment and financial settlement networks are rarely in the news, whoever controls them has enormous economic and political power. As an example, the fact that US dollar […]

Bitcoin mining creates a global “battery” of value

June 6, 2018 0 comments

Far from squandering electricity, bitcoin miners perform a socially important function by converting otherwise unusable energy into a global store of value, say analysts at CoinShares, a firm specialising in […]