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Amazon denied it but…

So you may have seen the news in the last week that Amazon were working to accept crypto currency payments, starting with Bitcoin. Accordingly to an insider quoted in the City A.M. article: “Ethereum, Cardano and Bitcoin Cash will be next in line before they bring about eight of the most popular cryptocurrencies online,” she…

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A billion users

A recent article in City A.M. covering the Cardano aspiration for a billion users within 10 years caught our eye. A billion users, that’s a big number right? At the moment Cardano has about 1 million users based on active wallet data. So to hit a billion over 10 years requires a Compound Annual Growth…

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Goguen and Alonzo?

The Cardano smart contract Era is almost upon us. And you may have noticed that the team behind the project have a fondness for naming phases of the project and specific releases after some of their heroes from the world of science, philosophy and mathematics. The project itself is named after Geralomo Cardano, a Renaissance…

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Thoughts on Markets

A recent YouTube update from Charles Hoskinson touches on markets and the ecosystem for cryptocurrencies, reminding us of some of the important aspects that are in play at the moment, and the transformational impact they will have. If you’ve not watched any videos from Charles yet, this is 18 mins that’s worth the investment, and…

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What is IELE and why does it matter?

We are entering the next phase of money when it becomes programmable. This in a nutshell is the promise of Smart Contracts, and has the potential to be a major revolution similar in impact to the invention of the printing press. But there are challenges to making Smart contracts reliable and secure so that you…