5 Years Ago

Visa, Mastercard and now PayPal embracing Bitcoin

2 min video looking at how global payment cards are turning to crypto currencies

Visa and Mastercard have been actively courting crypto currencies for a while enabling companies like Coinbase and Baanx to offer debit cards with digital wallets so that Fiat and Crypto currencies can be held and then spent in the millions of merchants that accept Visa or accept Mastercard. These debit cards enable one to transfer Fiat or crypto currencies globally, quickly and cheaply in a highly secure manner all from your mobile phone.

This year Fold announced it was joining it Visa’s...


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Are US regulators stifling Digital innovation?

2 min video — America have been the tech global leaders but they seem to be slipping behind……

The attraction of doing business in the US is obvious, being the biggest economy globally, and there still exists a very ‘can-do’ attitude. However, if you are running a regulated business or, even worse, you do not think there is the necessity to be regulated but the Americans think you do, then you potentially face the double challenge of both State and Federal laws.

For the last 20 or 30 years, California’s Silicon Valley has, without doubt (largely due to...


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Given almost zero interest rates are Revenue Sharing Tokens a possible solution



2 min video looking at the how Revenue Sharing Tokens could offer income producing investments for investors

In more recent times there has been considerable hype, speculation, and unfortunately a fair share of scandal and disappointment around Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) more commonly referred to as cryptos. However, the technology upon which ICO as relied has been used to create Security Token Offering (STOs) backed by real assets such as bonds, commodities, equities, real estate etc.

In turn we are now seeing companies such as Ucrowdme and financial commentators such as Blockchain...


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Joined 7th February 2019