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Jonny Fry Posted

4 Years Ago |
DeFi keeps getting bigger are tokens set to take on betting and gambling too?



2 min Video about DeFi Tokens huge growth and how tokens are offering an alternative way for people to have a bet on The Trump being re-elected


DeFi is certainly gaining traction in just 24 hours Uniswap paid $5 million in ETH transaction fees. Uniswap is a semi-automated platform matching buyers and sellers of digital assets, saw its trading volume climb to $953.59 million on 1st September, a more than ten-fold gain over the past month and passing Coinbase another digital exchange.

Back in 2017 a crypto term called ‘flippening’...


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Australia’s first significant use of Blockchain technology in the financial services sector
Source: Procreditbank.med

A 2 min video looking at the first large scale use of Blockchain technology in Australia in the financial services sector

The first notable use of Blockchain technology in the financial services sector is a project Lygon backed by ANZ and Commonwealth bank, Scentre Group (which runs the Westfield shopping centres) and Westpac, powered by IBM on the hyperledger Blockchain.

However, it is rather ironic according to the Urban dictionary Lygon is “a person with limited or extremely low intelligence, who on their best day couldn’t figure out what to do...


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4 Years Ago |
Possible ways to protect against inflation as Fed sanctions higher inflation

 A 2 min video looking on inflation and possible ways to protect yourself

It is a worrying is the US Fed have officially announced that they are happy for inflation to go beyond its 2% target before it raises interest rates. Therefore, does the FED believe inflation is around the corner? Higher growth can lead to higher inflation due to less spare capacity, so prices rise as firms compete to attract additional labour and goods. However, just because you allow higher inflation this does not mean you will get higher levels...


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4 Years Ago |
Will Ethereum need to be regulated as EU regulators stamp their approval on Digital Assets?

 2 min. video discussing how Digital Assets and exchanges are being introduced to Europe but will we see for Blockchain platforms that issue STOs/ICOs to be regulated?

The FCA in the UK has just granted approval to Archax and Gemini to be able to be regulated exchange providers for Digital Assets.

Gemini is already trading in other countries and Archax claim that they have 35 assets that they wish to start trading

Under the EU 5th Anti Money laundering directive all entities that are involved in handling and trading Crypto...


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As on-line sales surge, will we see Amazon, Walmart or Shopify launch their own digital currencies?

2 min video looking at three hugely successful on-line retailers and their potential to create their own digital payment coin?

We have all heard of Amazon which has risen in value to $1.65 trillion started as a book seller still dominates America on-line sales with a market share of 38%, yet its cloud services AWS accounts for 77% of Amazon’s profits generates.

Shopify Canada’s biggest quoted company $125 billion set up originally selling snow boards.

Walmart the worlds big daddy for bricks and mortar retailers capitalised at $372...


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Universal Basic Income has received more attention as a result of Covid-19

2 min video about is now the time to reconsider governments offering Universal Basic Income for its citizens?

The concept of every citizen in a country receiving a basic income and so try to reduce the gap between the rich and poor was first proposed by Sir Thomas More’s Utopia in 1516

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation believes it does little to solve poverty.

The biggest experiment to test Universal basic Income was in Finland over two years involving 173,000 people and discovered not only did it help financially but improved their mental state...


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Jonny Fry Posted

4 Years Ago |
What happens when the cost of moving money is free?

A 2 min video looking at the rise of micropayments industry, digital currencies and even a GoldmanSachs coin!

 This was a question posed by the Co -founder and CEO of Coinbase Brian Armstrong earlier this year on Twitter

Even when it was relatively cheap to send text messages people still sent very few compared to WhatsApp which for some has become the way to communicate as its FREE and global with no consideration of where WhatsApp massages are sent from or to

Are we to see a revolution in payments as they become free or...


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4 Years Ago |
Google- Mideflie crisis?

2min. video considering Google’s next steps 

As Economist.com recently suggested maybe the 21year old Google needs to “Listen to the advice given people going through a Midlife crisis, Slim down, focus on what you are good at” As Google could be worth $100 billion less than the sum of its parts

You tube could be worth more than Netflix (currently valued at $212billion). If nothing else selling it off would increase online competition. In any event having paid only $1.6 billion for YouTube in 2006 if sold it could realise a huge return for Google’s shareholders.

What do Google do if...


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Is the Chinese government tightening its grip on Digital Payments

2 min video exploring how the Chinese government new digital currency is questioning WeChatPay and AliPay in order its own Digital Currency can be more widely used 

The Chinese government announced its new and long-awaited Digital currency in April 2020 and in recently made its intentions clear that this was to be a currency for its citizens by forming a tie up with Didi, which had been hailed the world’s most valuable start-up at $56billion back in 2018, it is the firm that crushed Uber in China. Didi has 550 users and...


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