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5 Years Ago |
Have we fallen out of love with money?

2min video looking at why increasingly we are no longer using cash….-https://youtu.be/oXgvgRoBl7w

20% of Brits have been washing their money and the Chinese destroyed $85+ billion due to Covid-19 While in American shops are running out of coins
Even the new governor Andrew Baily of the conservative Old Lady at Threadneedle Street otherwise known as the Bank of England is opening talking about CBDC
The French, Dutch, Italian, Germans are all calling for a Digital Euro
Covid-19 has sped up many central banks to seriously look at Digital currencies meanwhile we now have over 200 stablecoins and the...


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New Green Bank for UK

@ min video about UK proposed new Green Bank which could help create £100 billion for the renewables sector and 300,000 jobs — https://youtu.be/oXgvgRoBl7w

The UK set up a Green bank in 2012 only to then sell it 5 years later to Macquarie bank from Australia and barely made a profit.
It did however help the renewable sector in the UK as the London School of Economics claims that for every £1 the Green Bank invested £3 was invested by the private sector.
Research carried out in Germany found it now takes 2.5 years in Northern Europe and 1.5 years in Southern...


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Blockchains coming to California.


Blockchain Working Group (BWG) is a group of government officials from the Golden state of California in the USA have just released a report into how Blockchain’s could potentially be used by state Government and its citizens. Three initial suggestions that BWG has suggested where Blockchain technology could be used are: The Department of Vehicles — to hold data about vehicles history from manufacture to being scrapped and also creating a database of driver’s details. The Department of Food and Agriculture — to track and trace food from farms so consumers are able to have provenance and officials are able to...


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Covid 19 is driving change in business

2 min video looking at how business is changing and has been impacted by Covid-19 — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonnyfry_covid-19-is-driving-change-in-business-activity-6688360060378222592-HIe6

The companies listed on the S&P 500 Index have been included on average for 22 years, down from 61 years in 1958 so it would seem that the pace of change is quickening.

Before COVID-19 because of the transformational impact of digitisation, 92% of companies thought their business models would need to change. The pace of change has been dramatically seen in the financial services sector with reports of 35% of customers have increased their use of on-line banking.Visa saw 13...


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The $1quadrillion derivatives market turning to Blockchains

2 Min video about arguably the biggest asset class DERIVATIVES and how Blockchain technology is impacting on them — https://youtu.be/Z0bROpgLGN8

Founded in 2015 Clearmatics is the technology partner that has been selected by Fnality which has been working with a number of institutions and Central banks to create five stablecoins linked to £, Yen, Euro Canadian $ and US$.
Fnality was previously called Universal Stable Coin and BIS has called it a wholesale stabelcoin
Built on the private version of the Ethereum Blockchain called Autonity.
Fnality this time last year raised $62+million from 14 different banks
Fnality is similar to the...


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Ethereum will it sink or swim? 

2 min video on the outlook of Ethereum — https://youtu.be/4MxULRhY37E


Ethereum has a major challenge on its hands, the price of its gas. Ethereum gas is the fees that users have to pay in order to use the Ethereum blockchain and as the popularity of the Ethereum blockchain increases so has the cost of processing a transaction risen too. It could be argued that Ethereum has become a victim of its own success in that the vast majority of Initial Coin offerings (ICOs)were launched using the Ethereum blockchain. Apart from Ethereum itself, which is the second most valuable Crypto...


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Another government issues a central bank digital currency

Lithuania is to issue its own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Population of Lithuania has been declining and it is predicted to be at the same level it was in 1960’s – 2.7million. However, it was the largest country in Europe in 14th century, so how times do change. This is a milestone for Blockchain technology and for the Euro zone as this will be the first time a CDBC is going to be used for payments by a nation’s citizens. Although it ought to come as no surprise that Lithuania are launching...


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Rev up your portfolio with a Ferrari

CurioInvest is looking to offer a range of digital assets backed by classic cars with the intention to actually tokenise 500 cars. Although CurioInvest’s team is based in Zug, Switzerland, it has received approval from Lichtenstein to issue a security token CT1 which will be backed by a 2015 Ferrari F12 TDF supercar. During the first five years, CurioInvest will accept a bid for the Ferrari if the price is more than 20% above the $1.023 million purchase price. If there has been no bid, then the car will be auctioned off and...


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Hollywood here comes Digital Assets

2 min video about how Digital Assets could change the way films are financed and yet another country is turning to Digital Assets to help raise capital for SMEs. Click here to watch — https://youtu.be/7Kn-BiH1l1Q

The principality of Monaco have just announced that they are going to allow up to 15 government approved Security Token Offering (STOs) p.a. raising £15 to £200million each
The first STOS is to raise $50m for a film production company called Icebreaker, the company that made the TV documentary ‘March of the Penguins’ 
Investors in the STO will receive a share in the income from future productions...


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As countries weed themselves off fossil fuel what role is Blockchain technology playing

2 min video - Using Blockchains to reduce countries dependancy on oil, gas and coal - https://youtu.be/FPTd2t6lSvA

The German electricity sector is to stop using coal which is one of the most damaging ways to create electricity for the environment, by 2038 it is also looking to stop using nuclear power stations by 2022 as it tackles climate change. In turn Germany is increasingly becoming more reliant on micro renewable generation such as wind or solar plants. This presents a challenge as by their nature they produce small amounts of...


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Global corporations increasingly turning to Blockchain solutions

2 Min Video of how Global Corporations are using Blockchain - https://youtu.be/zr9ssE062zc

Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies have much to gain from using Blockchain technology FMCG examples Nestle, Pepsi, Unilever, Colgate, Johnson and Johnson, Proctor and Gamble and these firms manufacture and sell packaged foods, beverages, toiletries, over-the-counter drugs, and other consumables. The types of products we all use on a day to day basis Given the rise in own label products from retailers/ supermarkets the FMCG firms need to operate as efficient as possible as well as maintaining their brand appeal which explains why...


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Crypto city gets $6 billion funding, is this type of ecosystem a foretaste of what is to come?

2 min video about a new ‘eco-city’ in Africa and the creation of an ecosystem with its own cryptocurrency — https://youtu.be/d1KCKNHYEvw

The singer and song writer Akon has finally received thumbs up for his 2,000 acre Crypto city in Senegal in Africa. Akon has been given the land by the Senegalese President, which is close to the sea and only one hour’s drive from Dakar’s new international airport.The city itself will be tax-free and enjoy tax incentives to encourage others to invest

The US based firm KE...


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