How do you have a crypto industry without having one? Maybe pass rules to allow them, but make the price of entry so high no one will do it. Interesting that one of the biggest developing nations on the

After some strongly worded negative statements on crypto's, JPM is to be introduced. Designed to do inter bank transfer of funds, a bit like SWIFT does. Except Swift just moved to use the XRP blockchain

In marketing the adoption of an idea or product needs to reach 10% of the population/market. Once that 'tipping point' is reached the growth goes exponential. This article talks of a survey that says 13%

In another great example of using blockchain database and logistics, the FDA are looking to track prescription drugs from manufacture to patient. Hopefully this will reduce the incidence of drugs ending

The story over Quad-gate continues to gather information. Specific addresses believed to have been used by the exchange have been identified. The feb 'after-death' movement of funds into a 'locked' cold

In what is ramping up to be an interesting legal fight, the SEC may have stepped over a line by procecuting a software dev for what his prodcut may be used for. Surely the FED knows that cash is used in

What happens if.... if the worst happens and you or me or anyone is not around to provide passwords or keys to our crypto fortunes? Coinbase are promoting the idea of backing crypto keys up on iCloud or

On Feb 25th two new indices will go live on Nasdaq. These will track the current prices, rises & falls in BTC & ETH These indices should include OTC trading as well as typical crypto exchanges.

While most people involved or interested in BTC and other crypto, follow daily if not hourly charts. These charts typically follow what is happening on the crypto exchanges. But there is another huge investor

The police have taken info, and given the exchange the OK to reopen. But will they, since the losses were fairly large, and some of the stolen coins have been cashed out. With 2 attacks in a short space

The biggest draw back to BTC is the processing speed, and as we saw last Jan when prices went up, the processing required and the cost of that processing, due to the number of miners available, makes the

Keeping keys safe is important, without them access to blockchain records to move funds is impossible. If we lose our mobile, or get hit with a virus, then the keys can be lost forever. Backing up data

The plot of this Agatha Christie gets better by the week. After the CEO died in Dec 18, taking the keys to cold storage wallets with him, the story has been that people have been unable to access these

The Spend wallet is different to other wallets, in that it converts LTC into fiat money. This requires that the user has a bank account, linked to the LTC wallet. This solution does not help those without

For a while rumors of a crypto backing twitter has been surfacing. Using the Lightening blockchain users could tip other users, as well as upvote them. The head of twatter has become so 'noisy' about it,

It seems the banking cartel are waking up. They now seem to understand that blockchains can and will replace existing systems and processes as surely as motor vehicles replaced horses. But read another

Everyone with a TRX wallet should have or soon will get free BTT tokens. Since a huge number of people can now participate, it will be interesting to see what happens to BitTorrent once the new software

GM finance is moving towards a finance system that requires customer ID's on the blockchain. Nothing can go wrong with ID theft, can it? With all the breaking of blockchains and other computer based systems

Since announcing it's use of XRP to do business with Thailand, the offer has been extended to other countries. When countries trade with each other using something other than the "global currency"

With a massive injection of funding, it would seem that Reddit may survive the battle with other online social media. The main competition of FB & twatter, have been losing revenue as fake, even doubles