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 […]
Fact of the day
Fact of the day | 10 March 2020
How Cryptocurrencies Already Help Sovereign Nations
Article by Scotcoin’s own Temple Melville published in City AM on 28/8/19 Cryptocurrencies are almost as old as money itself. Indeed, crypto simply means concealed or secret. So the first man (or woman) who tried to exchange some rocks for a sheep could be said to have been using a crypto currency. Up to that […]
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 […]
ICO? Take care…..
A Boston College research paper entitled Digital Tulips has found that fewer than half of all ICO projects survive more than 120 days after the completion of their sales of tokens to the public. That is really scary. And this fact does not seem to be putting people off. Another $10-12 billion of ICOs will […]
Rigging The Crypto Currency Markets
The news that US regulators are investigating crypto currency exchanges for illegal rigging activities should come as no surprise to anyone. When you are in the Wild West, anything goes, and can go on for as long as no one pulls the plug on it. But this particular move is all part of the worldwide […]
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 […]
What will shape future demand for Cryptocurrencies?
In the past year, we have seen an explosion in the value of the global cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin’s price has increased by 850%, Ethereum’s by 2900%; and the market capitalisation of the cryptocurrency market has increased from around $13 billion to over $200 billion. Such a rapid increase reflects uncertainty surrounding the value of global […]
Crash? What Crash?
The Bitcoin Crash Which Never Was is OVER So guess what? The Bitcoin crash that never was appears to be over short term. There are still issues with Segwit come 1st August and a LOT could still go wrong, but it’s beginning to look as if BTC will climb much higher once this is safely […]
