4 Years Ago

Jonny Fry Posted

4 Years Ago |
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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Jonny Fry Posted

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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

4 Years Ago |
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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Jonny Fry Posted

4 Years Ago |
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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4 Years Ago |
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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4 Years Ago |
Catalonia’s adoption of Blockchain technology

2 min video looking at Catalonia’s ambitions to be the Blockchain destination for Europe

For many years, Catalonia has wished to break away from Spain. In 2019, Catalonia’s GDP was €242.3 billion, compared to the whole of Spain which had GDP of €1.2 trillion euros. Catalonia is also keen to embrace Blockchain technology.

Catalonia’s GDP V Spain’s GDP

Source: Statista
When talking about Blockchain technology Jordi Puignero, Catalonian Minister of Digital Insurance Policies and Public Administration, stated, “Simply because the Web introduced us common connectivity, blockchain will deliver us new common governance. It’s going to have an effect on the...


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4 Years Ago |
Bitcoin adoption continues

2 min video looking at the continued adoption of cryptos

In the last year the value of cryptocurrencies as an asset class has more than doubled from $203billion to over £500billion, with the price of BTC increasing from approximately $7,000 to over $17,000. According to research there are now over 100 million Bitcoin wallets, with the number of wallets active each day being typically 1million and the number of wallets holding 100+ Bitcoins reaching over 16,000 in October 2020. However, possibly more interesting is that the ownership or use of crypto is global, as reported by Statista, with citizens...


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Blockchain Technology is being used in the Insurance sector and also in the insurance sector we see the largest amount of cash ever raised for a start-up ($1.1billion) is due to IPO


 
2min video on the use of Blockchain tech and a new insurance firm set to be the 2nd biggest IPO in the UK in 2020


The global insurance market has over $5.3trillion of insurance premiums p.a. thus it is of no surprise that this sector is looking at how to harness the power of Blockchain technology.

A recent report from Accenture claims that: “the global market for blockchain in insurance is expected to grow to...


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