Repeatedly on social networks such as Linkedin, I have seen a post making the rounds, where platform users are given the golden ticket to access early-stage VC’s – an excel list of early-stage venture capital companies which look to provide pre-seed or seed capital to companies wishing to climb the VC ladder to success and untold riches.The catch is, you have to like, comment, share the post, and in most cases, you have to connect with the profile too.So, I did some research on this, and far from being the golden ticket it is marketed to be ... read more

Yes folks, once again the reach of the incumbent driven SEC has plucked out a service provider from within the Blockchain ecosystem as ICOBox is charged with violations of securities law. As the headline suggests, this is to the cheers of the blinkered incumbent fan base who seem to have an ability to only focus on crypto and each and every accusation which is laid against the crypto ecosystem.Link to the actual complaint is at the bottom of the page. Yes, it is “Alleged” that ICO Box has committed a number of serious infractions on outdated an ... read more

The world of finance, business and investment have always represented a long-standing challenge for governments all across the world. Especially in finding the right kind of balance between having policies that are firm enough to protect those getting involved. While also being relaxed enough to not only allow, but also encourage innovation and an incentive for businesses to actually choose your country above others.But this is the kind of stance that Christine Lagarde, who is just one of the presidential candidates for the International Monetary Fund; as she encourages countries across the world to find that balance be ... read more

There are a number of reasons for why someone would buy into a particular kind of cryptocurrency; because they were enamoured with the investment potential of it as a digital asset, its intrinsic value as a currency behind a unique business idea. But what about as an official digital currency for a professional welterweight champion?According to news outlets this week, this is exactly what Manny Pacquaio has brought out for his vast number of fans. Known only as the 'PAC' Coin, it effectively represents yet another notch in the accomplished Philippine boxer's belt; having previously been a world ch ... read more

While the cryptocurrency market has been enjoying some noticeable success over the past few months, with Bitcoin particularly seeing some impressive bullish returns. The stage looks unfortunately set for cryptocurrencies to test their lower supports once again.Two of the more prominent examples we are seeing now is Bitcoin, which is testing closer towards its lower support of $9,000, with the prospect of going even further, especially as some exchanges have it trending below this. The second one being Ethereum; which moved from highs of $200 to hit trough positions of $90 or below.In total, the crypto market has seen m ... read more

When your business is in its relatively nascent stages, there aren't really any questions over who owns what or who does what within it. If you're an up and coming SME, for example, it's likely you're only really going to have a core team taking care of the essentials. But what happens when more people enter the fray? Lets look at what is a cap table and how does a cap table work?It's important to consider this because as people come and go from your business, that previously easy to mete out graph of shares and money just ... read more

A Promise Betrayed: Nano Ledger's Broken Promise of 'Radical Decentralisation' and Scalability The Nano Ledger (which has since received the poor rating of D+ by some reviewers) was previously designed to serve as a distributed ledger has proven to not necessarily serve as a blockchain based one.Initially, Nano was conceived of as being a payment solution for users, with transactions operating in a strictly peer to peer setting. Meaning that these payments would be sorted between the remitter and receiver with no outside influences needed.So how was it supposed to work? According to its developme ... read more

There are plenty of interesting blockchain ideas out there. Each one proposing to disrupt some small or substantial part of the industry they've set their sights on. But a brand new proposal is actually thinking of taking the whole process of decentralization even further.How? By decentralizing the very private keys that these solutions commonly use.A Matter of Trust - How a Trustless Bot Could Handle You Crypto KeysFar from being some kind of fringe company, Tide is one of the more better-known non-profits advocating for greater personal privacy for users online. Accordi ... read more