18 May 2024

Tag: blockchain

SEC Lawsuits Against Binance and Coinbase: A Damning Indictment of the Cryptocurrency Concept?

In an unprecedented move signaling increased scrutiny of the cryptocurrency industry, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed lawsuits against leading crypto exchanges, Binance and Coinbase. Allegedly, both exchanges knowingly violated securities laws, prompting the debate: is the entire concept of cryptocurrency fundamentally flawed, or even a sham? The SEC contends that Binance,…

9 June 2023
Today’s Idea: VERSES Technologies Inc. sets the stage for Web 3.0

Futuristic Shock & Awe As a kid, we all grew up fantasizing about the day we could finally immerse ourselves in a virtual world. Movies like Ready Player One or shows like Sword Art Online popularized the idea of making reality our own through the use of technology. Today, the same tools we dreamt about…

27 June 2022
AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) are pumped about the future of the metaverse

The more I hear about the metaverse the less I’m convinced that it’s going to be the great disruptive, revolutionary next-gen platform many companies are banking on. Instead, it’s probably going to be more like 3D Printing. Remember the craze around 3D Printing? 3D printing is the building of a three dimensional object from a…

8 June 2022
Three companies bringing the future of blockchain to your door

The blockchain and cryptocurrency markets have blown up and fractured into a billion different pieces, and that’s a good thing. Now instead of just gearing your potential investment opportunities towards miners, there’s options in the fields of fintech, hospital equipment, and plenty more. Let’s not forget about NFT or metaverse options either. Here are three…

2 May 2022
Crypto Lingo: The Complete Beginners Guide

There are certain things in this life that I have accepted I will never understand. First things first, does anyone honestly know what “cookies” are? (The computer kind, obviously, the bakery version is self-explanatory – and far superior). For the last 10 years of my existence, whether browsing a suspect or credible website, I have…

25 April 2022
Neptune Digital Assets (NDA.C) bucks the specialization trend

Usually trying to be all things for all people is a bad business strategy. Mostly it stretches your operation too thin. You might be really good at one or two things, and only so-so on others, but if you spread out to include all the operations you can manage, you can usually expect mediocrity across…

5 April 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Central Bank Digital Currency and the death of privacy

President Joe Biden sent out an executive order to his people to learn all they could about crypto and determine if it was a threat to national security, and the news flew under the radar when they finally came back. It wasn’t anything anyone in the crypto space wasn’t expecting already—regulations required at all levels…

24 March 2022
Will Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) and DeFi levy the challenge to traditional finance?

One of the biggest unforeseeable events of the past twenty years has been the disintermediation effect of new tech. Netflix killed blockbuster, Amazon has slain Sears and other big box chains of the past, and services like Uber and Lyft are disrupting the traditional taxi services. Technology has been busy slaughtering the sacred cows of…

23 February 2022
It’s time for another nifty sector roundup featuring NFT

Blockchain and its ancillary products has a hype problem. We saw it in 2017 when the tech blew up and public companies started putting blockchain in their name to take advantage of the buzz, only to drop it (well, most of them anyway) when the bubble burst. The problem? It was a revolutionary technology that…

8 February 2022
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Case Against Privacy Pt 2

Late last week I wrote a little something on privacy and why we need it. That was intended to be a much larger piece—the second half of which would show the other side, lay out the counterarguments from both the perspective of cryptocurrency, but also veer into wider privacy related territory. Especially in view of…

4 February 2022