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 – […]
The Scotcoin Pizza… Mark this date!
At our MeetUp in Dundee last night, intrepid blockchain enthusiasts joined our cryptocurrency development team for a momentous occasion. We now have 250 regular guests at these events and we discuss all manner of things blockchain, Q&A for newbies, and it’s a chance to meet the team behind the Scotcoin Project and find out more […]
US and UK regulation of Fintech
This is from an article on Cointelegraph by Joshua Althauser The differences he highlights are extremely important, and will assist the UK and Scotland in particular with its charge into Fintech and Blockchain technology, as well as make crypto currencies more mainstream. Based on the policies involving cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technologies, UK moves to liberalization […]
Are Altcoins Overtaking the World of Bitcoin?
Bitcoin has been consistently labelled as the future of digitalised money, as it allows people to pay for goods and services without the need to involve banks or own physical currency. With pretty much all technology moving online now, why not money too? But the real question is whether Bitcoin is the best option for […]
