5 Years Ago

Jonny Fry Posted

5 Years Ago |
A list of some of some key figures that had a big impact in 2020 in the Blockchain and Digital Asset sectors

 2 min video about some of the movers and shakers in 2020

1.     Abigail Johnson- CEO and Chairman of Fidelity Investments. Supporter of digital assets ensuring Fidelity was one of the first traditional financial services firms to offer custody services and generally promote this new asset class

2.     Andre Cronje – the father of DeFi, love him or hate him Cronje has let the genie out of the bottle and the real battle between Traditional Finance and De Centralised Finance has...


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Jonny Fry Posted

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Crypto funds, a larger choice but how great is the systemic risk



2 min video discussing funds that invest in Crypto assets.


There are more funds than quoted equities in the world. Are we to see more funds that invest in Digital Assets that actual digital assets? I suspect so.

Only a few years ago there was a relatively choice of funds for investors looking for a crypto fund and those that were available tended to afford little investor protection and services such as the fund manager being able to secure Professional indemnity insurance or even having the assets held securely by a third...


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Cutting carbon footprints using Blockchain technology


There is growing evidence that governments and corporations are taking climate change more seriously. Furthermore, with Jo Biden now set to be the next president of the USA and being a strong supporter of climate change initiatives, there is likely to be greater pressure to see significant reductions in the world’s carbon footprint.

Educating consumers to change behaviour is key in the challenge of reducing the carbon foot print — an initiative that French supermarkets, such as Casino and E.Leclerc, have taken on board by now showing the carbon emissions on food labels for some of the products...


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Will investing in cloud companies continue to be profitable?

2 min video reviewing the performance of the FANNGS and the stocks dominating cloud computing that could out perform them.


Many people are familiar with the outstanding performance of the small group pf US equities called the FANNGs- Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google indeed in 2020 the FANNGs are up 46% compared to the S&P which has risen by 13%

Arguably these shares rode the wave of the internet and growth of people using mobile devices in their lives for business, shopping and social interactions. Now asset managers are cloud computing is...


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Jonny Fry Posted

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The equity markets set to tumble - historically they always do, but this time investors can buy new assets.

 

The stock markets are well overdue a correction as recently quoted by CNN business but, actually, this is healthy and totally natural since we have seen a series of stock market crashes historically. However, what is different this time is there are potentially investors who may turn to new intangible assets just as the tangible physical assets fall. As has been documented in previous editions of Digital Bytes, history can be a powerful teacher. We can go back quite a few centuries...


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More institutions reveal their digital assets infrastructure business plans

2 min video reviewing examples of different institutions that are building new exchanges and offering custody services for digital assets

The global daily trading value on the world’s digital exchanges is between US$50 billion to US$100 billion and this is set to grow if we are going to have greater institutional interest in digital assets. In a recent survey carried out by Crypto Research Report and Cointelegraph Consulting, based on 55 asset managers who, alone, have over €719 billion of assets under management, it found that 61% of wealthy Europeans already have, or plan...


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Jonny Fry Posted

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The unbanked and financially excluded

2min video examining how Blockchain technology may be able to finally include the 1.7 billion people who are currently unbanked

In a recent statement, the CEO of Mastercard claimed that Bitcoin is unable to help those financially excluded/unbanked but Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) potentially could. However, it is arguable as to whether Banga simply trying to advertise for Mastercard since he also stated: “Today, we’re one of the largest patent holders in the space of central bank digital currencies.” In addition to this, the World Bank has estimated there are 1.7 billion people globally unbanked i.e....


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