British multinational professional services firm, Ernst & Young (EY), recently published its Bank Relevance Index (BRI). The data shows how banks’ “decreasing relevance has consumers straying to bank alternatives.” “The BRI is the engine behind EY’s most extensive research survey into consumer banking behavior and trends, due out later this ... Read More »
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is one of the world’s largest professional services firms in the world. With headquarters in London, the company operates in 157 countries, boasts 756 locations and employs 200,000 people. The company ended 2015 with global revenues reaching US $35.4b. “In the last year, we have helped 443 of ... Read More »
Ethereum Vs Ethereum-Classic is producing an endless amount of news and more questions right now. Does ETH need to fork again? What’s going on with this replay attack? Putting aside the technical blockchain considerations as well as the philosophical one’s, today we take a day trader’s perspective to see what the ... Read More »
Yours is a new decentralized content network that uses bitcoin to reward creators. As the project gets closer to launch, more details have surfaced from the development team, and a new project website has just been revealed. The idea came about a little over a year ago, when project leader ... Read More »
The Omni Layer Foundation recently released the latest version of its Decentralized Exchange, OmniDex 2.0. Omni holders will soon start receiving 0.05% of the exchange volume as interest, after an introductory month of fee free trading. The project initially launched as Mastercoin in 2013, raising over 5,000 bitcoins in industry’s ... Read More »
The technical setups posted below use simple trend detection, support and resistance, channels, pattern and candlestick analysis. We aim for high-probability trade setups on BTCUSD and use very few indicators. All charts use BNC’s Bitcoin Liquid Index for maximum accuracy. The timeframe for trades is 1 to 7 days, so ... Read More »
The Bitwage Invoicing service is built on a simple idea, use bitcoin instead of legacy international payments. Using the service, Brazilian contractors and freelancers can now get paid in a range of foreign currencies, and receive Brazilian real into their local bank account. Bitwage provides a domestic bank account for ... Read More »
Earlier today, Bitfinex announced a security breach requiring them to halt all trading, deposits, and withdrawals on the Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange. Founded in 2012, Bitfinex has offices in Europe, Hong Kong, and the United States. It has been one of the world’s leading bitcoin exchanges, with deep liquidity in ... Read More »
RSK Labs is developing the first smart contracts platform secured by Bitcoin, codenamed RootStock. Today, 24 of the most influential Bitcoin companies have expressed their support by participating in an innovative hybrid security model, which incorporates a private Federation. The Federation will provide services that are “indispensable to use Smart ... Read More »
The Bitcoin community has debated a potential hardfork for over a year now. There have been various solutions proposed to change the cap on block size and increase the amount of transactions that can go into any single block. Leaving aside the discussion as to which approach would be the ... Read More »
I like to point out the fact that the Bank of England is taking a leadership role in FinTech, but it goes wider and deeper than this. Bear in mind, the regulator – the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) – lies under the Bank’s control. Before the Global Financial Crisis, it ... Read More »
My article yesterday was about the flagship lead taken by the Bank of England, supporting innovation and creating refreshed central bank digital structures. They are experimenting with everything from a Britcoin to a FinTech Accelerator program, and these operations have filtered through the system into RegTech programs from Project Innovate ... Read More »
