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Jonny Fry Posted

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Will we see a decline in globalisation triggered by covid-19?

2 min video - https://youtu.be/6MnXjZTp8XM looking at the poitential decline of globalisation and how Blockchain is being used to help in todays modern complex supply chains
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated enormous uncertainty around the world company boards are reassessing he risk of being exposed to the current complex supply chains and individual countries such as  97% of antibiotics used in Europe and the USA sourced from China as highlighted by the Council for Foreign Relations

The complex nature of global supply chains has encouraged companies to turn to technology like Blockchain- powered...


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Why should Bitcoin owners care about Bitcoin halving, what actually is it?

2 min video to expalin Bitcoin halving - https://youtu.be/yI4SZHSFTRE

One cannot escape to have noticed that this week something called Bitcoin halving has happened. We have had a number of readers asking what does this mean?

The theory is that by reducing the number of tokens being created it will counter the impact of inflationary pressures. Thus every 210,000 ‘blocks’, or roughly every four years, the number of Bitcoins (BTC) that are paid to a miner for a Block on the Bitcoin network is halved. So now the block reward is reduced...


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Are institutions and people from the financial sector shifting their attitude towards Digital Assets?

In the last few months we have seen a number of senior people from the financial services sector moving across to organisations that are active in the digital assets sector. Possibly the most significant is the ex head of HSBC legal Stuart Levey who is now going to to head up Libra as its CEO ( the organisations that facebook helped to establish). Given Levey was Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence for the U.S. Treasury for 7 years he will be well aware of what...


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Plastic is killing our oceans how can Blockchain technology help?

2 min video looking at how Blockchain is helping us to recycle plastic and track and trace waste — https://youtu.be/T00U7UQ-JN0

Plastic is killing our oceans and marine life however there are a number of ways that Blockchain technology is helping Did you know 100m marine animals die p.a. or that there are 12,000 to 14,000 tonnes of plastic ingested by fish just in the N Pacific Ocean p.a. There are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic waste. BSAF have launched reciChain, in Canada as a Deloitte report in 2016 found Canadians only recycled 11% of...


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Airlines nosedive as Covid-19 takes its toll - who are the winners and losers?

AS the price of airlines stock collapse it is not just shareholders who are suffering . As ever there are winners as well as losers. It looks like it will be a while before we see as many people flying including business travel so there is going to be a greater need for people to store and share data in a highly secure manner so could this be another reason we see more people embracing Blockchain technology?

Warren Buffett announces he has sold all...


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China gears up to launch a Digital Currency



• Chinese manufacturing accounts for 28% of the world 10% more than USA
• China is looking to dominate the digital landscape now according to McKinsey it is one of the top three VC investors in VR, Autonomous vehicles, Drones, 3D Printing and AI
• Mobile payments are 11 times the value of USA and these figures from McKinsey where back in 2017
• The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in China has said Blockchain will cloud computing, (AI) and (IoT) will underpin how China manage information in the future
• China accounts for 40%...


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Are there lessons from history that give Blockchain technology a place in today’s world


2 min video https://youtu.be/IBscJbfuE-A



Did you realise that in the 17th Century Europeans had healthcards/ID cards, and the word quarantine comes from Latin and Italians for 40 and was used during the “Black Death” in 1347 to 1350 when 1/3 of European population was wiped out?

The Medici dynasty in today’s money alleged to be worth $129 billion having made its fortune from banking and trading and was responsible arguably in creating Florence to be the epicentre of renaissance

In the winter of 1629 the Plague had been found Villfranche...


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Global shipping and the role of Blockchains

The International Chamber of Shipping, based in London, estimates that the global shipping industry which is responsible for moving approximately 90% of goods around the world, generates $half a trillion of turnover p.a. There is a fleet of 50,000+ merchant ships registered in over 150 jurisdictions and crewed by 1 million sailors. It is, without doubt, an industry that we all rely on for the goods we purchase but pay little attention to on a day to day basis.

However, one set of statistics that many fund managers do monitor, as it gives an indication...


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Video Bytes

Given the increased demand for visual and audio content videos, these are posted each working day on LinkedIn. Based on feedback from our readers, we include some of the more popular videos each week linked to the number of views the videos received.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHTlj6R2RN4&feature=emb_title

A quick canter through the history books looking at how European royalty and the aristocracy financed pirates, and how this 500-year precedent may offer the basis for a new better regulated form of ICO. How hordes of gold in Spanish galleons from South America ‘kicked on’ inflation in the 16th Century, and why the US$ is due...


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How an technology help SMEs raise capital

Public Capital Markets Evolution for SME’s

Despite the importance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) to the global economy, 2008’s global financial crisis forced a contraction in traditional sources of finance for SME’s,

including Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) capital markets. Questionably, this contraction has not yet been fully addressed. It certainly created new financing avenues for SME’s largely using technology, such as Peer2Peer (P2P) lending, crowdfunding and digitisation offerings in the form of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Security Tokens (STOs). At the same time the role of traditional public capital markets as a source of funds for SME’s...


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