6 Years Ago

If you would like to come next Monday we have MakerDAO talking about Stablecoins, Jess Houlgrave talking about how Blockchain is being used by auction houses and ‘2030’ presenting lessons on being UK’s first STO Please use this link to register as spaces are limited https://www.meetup.com/ICO-Meetup-London/events/260487288/
 New European prospectus legislation and the 5thMoney laundering directive will help STOs
 
The European Union last year agreed on new prospectus regulationsthat will come in to force on 21/07/19, which will give clarity as to how much capital a company is able to raise when doing a securities offering in each member state. It will be possible to raise up to Euros 8 million within any 12-month period from the general public, without the need for a prospectus.
The summary below shows the different amounts that each country will allow to be raised before a prospectus is required:

 
This new regulation will...


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How long with the US$ be the global currency?This article is only 5 months old, already Saudi Arabia and Facebook are talking about having their own Digital Currency. #business #facebook #blockchain #digitalassets #cryptocurrency #tokenization https://medium.com/coinmonks/is-time-up-for-the-us-as-the-worlds-reserve-currency-c05b581dec79
Pepsi have been working with Mindshare to see how the process of digital advertising can be more efficient and cost effective. The challenge for buyers of digital adverts is only a small proportion of the money spent by advertisers reaches publishers. As there are numerous intermediaries taking a cut of the spending. Also, a considerable amount of the amount spent on digital adverts is fraudulent or inaccurate, as it includes activity from "bots". Pepsi in March this year ran a trail in Asia and saw that there was a 28% improvement ‘in terms of costs for viewable impressions, in running the...


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How Blockchains can help identify fraudulent CVs
 

 
With over 30% of CVs potentially containing fraudulentinformation, any way for HR departments to be able to check a candidate’s qualification has to be welcome.
The cost to get copies of your old “O-level”, “A-Level”, or University degree certificate can be as much as £40 per qualification. The hassle factor dealing with and time it takes can be considerable for many existing analogue data bases. However, if the qualifications are held digitally, tamper-proof and securely on a Blockchain, employees and employers alike can efficiently have access to copies of the qualification documentation.
A research group in...


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How Blockchain can be used to fight plastic pollution 

An interview with Joseph Lubin head of ConsenSys, which is the consulting arm for Ethereum discusses who Blockchain technology is being used to tackle plastic waste. In the US JC Johnson have been working on a project with eight Indonesian communities using Blockchain technology to track the collection and recycling of plastic waste.  People collect waste plastic and then are able to exchange this for digital tokens at a collection centre. Using Blockchain technology, they can then use the tokens to buy needed goods and services – reducing the risk of loss...


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England’s Football Premier League Teams offer fans tokens
 
West Ham United, whose home ground was the site of the 2012 Olympics, has just announced that it is launching its own token, so enabling its 40 Million fans to vote on club decisions and have access to exclusive offers. West Ham fans will be able to buy tokens, as well as earning them as a form of loyalty scheme and be able to encash them for “a once in a life time experience”.

The company behind the West Ham token has already signed up Juventus and Paris St. Germain (PSG), to launch PSGs...


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Is Nike going to beat Facebook to launch a mass market Crypto?
 
Nike the world’s’ largest shoe manufacturer and the most valuable apparel brand in the worldhas filed a trademark called “CryptoKicks” which could lead to them launching their own Crypto currency. This rather bold claim is on the back of Nike’s application which states “Financial services, namely, providing a digital currency or digital token for use by members of an online community via a global computer network; facilitation of financial transactions using unconventional currency systems and bartering, namely.”

Interestingly, earlier this year, Nike launched trainers that lace themselves, called HyperAdapt . Therefore,...


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Blockchain $ Billion Babes!
Blockchain technology is impacting our lives in many ways, and while there were lots so headlines in 2017 and 2018 about the price of Bitcoin and how Ripple had risen in value in a12 month period by over 37,000, large corporates have been busy behind the scenes. Indeed, as the link at the end of this illustrates big businesses across the globe have been investing and trialling various projects to ensure that they are not left behind.
Blockchain technology offers a powerful combination of better security, and greater efficiency to move so reducing costs and by in...


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Laws struggle to find new staff with Blockchain knowledge
 
As more organisations turn to their lawyers for help and advice lawyers themselves are struggling to recruit sufficient staff to fill the vacancies they have, as they try and keep up with demand. Many of the global firms have been adding staff as demand has risen for data privacy and security legal expertise.
Mary K. Young, a partner at Zeughauser Group, the law firm consultancy, “don’t focus on the crypto, focus on the blockchain. It will be a game changer.”
In Canada we have seen the launch of a law firm just focused on CRYPTO,...


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