Bitcoin’s emergence as a global digital currency has been as revolutionary as it has been erratic. But while fledgling investors obsess over every fluctuation in the cryptocurrency market, nation-states are more interested in the underlying blockchain technology and its ability to revolutionize how business is done on the internet and beyond. VICE’s Michael Moynihan travels […]

By Jenny Lynton Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse recently proclaimed how Bitcoin ‘is not going to be the panacea that people once thought it would be.’ Speaking to CNBC at the Money 20/20 fintech conference, Garlinghouse predicted that ‘instead you’re seeing specializations of different kinds of ledgers, different kinds of blockchains’. With this in mind, we turned […]

By Jenny Lynton Crypto is gradually ‘starting to enter the mainstream financial services industry’ stated Neill Penney from Thomson Reuters recently. Although cryptocurrencies are ‘still a relatively small part of the trading market’, Penney noted that ‘this is a major change from a year ago.’ In fact, from London to New York, there are signs crypto […]