Bitcoin: Where Next For Crypto’s Darling?

THE soaring price of Bitcoin has been the crypto story of the last few weeks. What are we to make of the crash that wiped 12% off its price between Wednesday and Saturday? Was it just traders banking some profit? Or was it something more sinister? There is no doubt there was a lot of […]

Altcoin Season: The Good And The Bad

THE huge rise in the price of Bitcoin has rightly attracted attention over the last few weeks. The world’s dominant cryptocurrency more than trebling in 18 months to briefly reach new all-time highs north of $73,000. It has been a remarkable turnaround after the winter that stretched from 2022 into much of 2023. A lot […]

14,000 Casualties: Long Live Crypto

MOST of the attention directed towards cryptocurrency is given to Bitcoin and Ethereum – which is understandable to a point, given Bitcoin is the OG and represents around 50% of the crypto world’s entire market cap and Ethereum is the second biggest at around 17%. But what of the long list of other projects that have […]

DICTIONARY OF CRYPTO TERMS

If you’re new to cryptocurrencies then this is a dictionary of terms designed to help you navigate the terminology out there. All the way from ‘Altcoin’ through to ‘Wallet’. Altcoin Any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin, literally alternative coin. Bitcoin The original and most prominent example of a cryptocurrency. Blockchain The underlying technology that are the foundation for cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency A […]

Temple Melville on The Neil Coutts Show: Talking Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Scotcoin

Temple Melville on The Neil Coutts Show: Talking Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Scotcoin On this episode of the Neil Coutts Show, special guest Temple Melville joins Neil Coutts for a chat about Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and Scotcoin – it’s quite long but well worth the listen. You can listen to it on the following links: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-neil-coutts-show/id1541138876 Google […]

Scotcoin migration to ERC20 SCOT

I am delighted to report that Counterparty and Freewallet are now running normally after a very large upgrade which has taken more than two weeks. As a result, we have sent out the quantities of Bitcoin that were ordered to effect the migration to the receiving wallet. Please now send your V2 Scotcoin to the […]

How the EU could get out of its present pickle – and negative interest

If you have been following what is going on over the Channel, you will know that Macron and Merkel have underwritten some more money for the whole of the EU. As ever, they don’t differentiate between the wealthy northern nations and the bankrupt southern ones, and as a result as of now the one size […]