Marketing and Finance Podcast
Featuring on Marketing and Finance’s podcast today with Roger Edwards: What you’ll hear about in this podcast episode: A simple guide to crypto-currency The relationship between blockchain and bitcoin How Scotcoin, the crypto-currency with a Scottish ethos, came about Where to buy Scotcoin and use a Scotcoin wallet Which businesses accept the Scottish crypto-currency More […]
Star Trek, Cowboys and Blockchain: Ferengi Rules!
For reasons somewhat beyond me, a friend recently hailed me as “Hello Ferengi!” You may have forgotten but the Ferengi of Star Trek fame, apart from having misshapen heads, were, shall we say, a little tricky as far as business goes. They had a whole host of rules, promulgated throughout the entire innumerable episodes and […]
Self-employed grants
SCOTLAND’S self-employed workers might have had to wait longer for their Government financial support package announcement, but some have welcomed the deal on the table. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18341532.coronavirus-scotland-self-employed-welcome-grant-deal-show-caution-ahead/
NOW YOU REALLY NEED SOME CRYPTO
The Fed has been told to “just keep printing money” according to an interview with CBS’s 60 Minute. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Neel Kashkari referred to there being “an infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve.” He went on to say “That’s literally what Congress has told us to do. That’s the […]
Cryptos ain’t too big to fail
This is the second article written for us by Robert McDowell. He is a long time supporter both personally and through Summerhall of Scotcoin. He is currently chairman of that renowned venue in Edinburgh, and a long time top level financier and economist. He has written a couple of pieces for us. The first one […]
IS THE TRUTH THAT OUR ECONOMY IS SIMPLY TOO BIG TO FAIL?
Robert McDowell is a long time supporter both personally and through Summerhall of Scotcoin. He is currently chairman of that renowned venue in Edinburgh, and a long time top level financier and economist. He has written a couple of pieces for us, this first one on the macro position we find ourselves in and the […]
Working from home for the first time?
Amid the Covid-19 Crisis, Scotcoin is operating as normal. In part, this is because we established a virtual team as our preferred way of working years ago. It means we can recruit the best talent, regardless of where they are in the world, and that our team can work from the place that lets them […]
Two actors
Two actors, a boxer, a cyber-security technician, a business administrator, a mechanical engineer and a builder all go into a gym hall. Now you may think this is the start of a joke, but believe me this is not only no joke but one of the best things that has happened to me in quite […]
Using Crypto in disaster areas
CoinTelegraph had a very interesting article on this very thing – see here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/unicef-fund-manager-cryptocurrency-could-revolutionize-humanitarian-aid You probably won’t remember but this is something I spoke about and highlighted some considerable time ago as being a perfect use for crypto in disaster situations. UNICEF has now embraced the idea. In the interview their Program Funding Manager Sunita […]
Fact of the day
Fact of the day | 10 March 2020
