Apr 19, 2021 | Insights
On 14 April 2021 US Based Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) listed on NASDAQ at a valuation of AUD 110bn. As reference points, on the same day, Australia’s most valuable company, the Commonwealth Bank, was worth AUD 155bn and the ASX Ltd (Australia’s...
Feb 10, 2021 | Insights
On 5 February 2021 the US Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis issued an excellent report titled ‘Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets’. For executives currently at Management or Board level within a regulated...
Jan 13, 2021 | Insights
In early 2020, when most companies were having challenges due to COVID 19, US listed company MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) had a different problem, they had too much money. They were sitting on over USD 500 million, a cash pile that was growing day by day as lucrative...
Nov 9, 2020 | Insights
It is 9 November 2020 and the Austrian press is reporting that EU Council of Ministers have an ‘almost complete’ resolution on the table to ban end to end encryption on apps like @whatsapp and @signalapp. The US, Australia and others will – if not...
Nov 3, 2020 | Insights
In December 2019 I posted this story about the RBA potentially using Ethereum for a AUD-CBDC (Australian Dollar – Central Bank Digital Currency). Piece by piece the RBA are outlining more details of their AUD-CBDC approach, in this press release they advice that...
Oct 25, 2020 | Insights
Each quarter I write a newsletter to investors. These letters are usually confidential. This quarter, I have decided to share the non-confidential contents of the letter. You can find it here, I hope you enjoy.