Scotcoin – Scotland’s Own Digital Currency, a World Coin With a Scottish Ethos
– A speech by Temple Melville to Scottish Fintech on Wednesday 19th September 2018 “Good afternoon! I represent Scotcoin, Scotland’s own digital currency, a World Coin with a Scottish Ethos. I have just three things to tell you about today, all of them important. One is potentially profitable for you, one will benefit […]
Chocolate Bitcoins
If you are a chocoholic like me, you just might know that Belgium has been involved with the manufacture and sale of chocolate for nearly 400 years. Yes, 400 years. It has more than 2000 chocolate shops selling just – chocolate. They manufacture over 170,000 tons a year. It’s a big business. And it’s been […]
Scotcoin needs Bitcoin!
We’ll buy your bitcoin for Scotcoin Despite our new blockchain not needing Bitcoin, we will all need some Bitcoin in order to effect the migration from our present Counterparty Protocol. It’s not very much per wallet but in order to send the existing coin to its new wallet, Bitcoin will be needed. We are in […]
Better Blockchain regulation needed – says former White House Regulator
Former White House financial regulator and Goldman Sachs partner, Gary Gensler, today called for better blockchain regulation. He suggests that both Ether and Ripple may well have issues surrounding American securities regulations because of the way they have been traded. Bitcoin remains unaffected but it opens up the debate on more regulation within the cryptocurrency […]
Pennies to Pounds
In case you are a hermit (and even hermits have mobile phones a la Sue Perkins) and haven’t heard, Bitcoin is closing in on $20,000 or around £14,600. If you’ve been actually following what’s going on, you may have come across a strange phenomenon. If you put in a very low transaction fee to send […]
SCOTCOIN COMPLETES £80,000 FUNDING ROUND
The Scotcoin Project CIC (“Scotcoin”) announces it has raised £80,000 in its latest funding round. The funds will be used to increase awareness of the Scotcoin crypto currency and promote its usage as both a store of value and as an emerging means of acquiring goods and services, online and instore. Further announcements are expected […]
Jamie Dimon’s company changes its mind
J.P. Morgan is considering whether to provide its clients access to CME’s new Bitcoin product through its futures-brokerage unit. Oh Jamie… The irony of the announcement, of course, is that Jamie Dimon has been the most outspoken critic of Bitcoin on Wall Street, calling it a ‘fraud’ and saying that anyone who invests in Bitcoin […]
Cryptocurrency FAQs
What is block chain and what is cryptocurrency? Is there a difference? Blockchain is the enabling technology that underpins cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is money based on trust in cryptographic, mathematical proofs. Why has block chain and cryptocurrency become so popular? Crypto currencies are not inflationary. They are cheaper to transact and do not rely on […]
Bitcoin versus Scotcoin
I’ve been busy recently with all the work going on in respect of our new private blockchain. Bitcoin of course has continued to rise (and may I say, I told you so every time it “crashed” it was going back up). But the rise in Bitcoin has had a profound effect which is now changing […]
Whither Scotcoin
Cryptocurrency a scam? There have been quite a few gyrations in the Bitcoin market especially since China put the mockers on ICOs. This was then followed by Jamie Dimon – he of JPMorgan fame – saying Bitcoin was a scam. Yet today, one of the doyens of the London Gold market – Sharps Pixley – […]
