Very interesting round-up of the crypto-giving space, which is making waves in unexpected ways. Traditional aid agencies and charities have had to deal with a lot of reputational damage in recent
7 Deadly ICO Sins That Will Scare Away Your Investors
ICOs dead? Far from it. But investors in 2019 are far more discerning and wary, than some of the rubbish people could and did get away with a year ago. This is a nice round-up of some of the cardinal
Clarifying your blockchain brand messaging
Actually, forget about crypto and blockchain for a moment, and think about fast food. Think about the biggest fast-food brand in the world. You’ve heard of it, right? You’re aware of what they offer.
2018 in Blockchain and Crypto
It’s hard for the BlockSparks team to believe we’ve been working together for almost a year now… But in other ways, it feels like a lot longer. Such a lot has happened, within our new business and the
Coinbase integrates Paypal
This is massive - a really important breakthrough in terms of mass adoption. Paypal is the online payment method for so many, including global underbanked populations, so being able to connect Paypal
The Truth About the Crypto Crisis
“Crypto doesn’t exist in a bubble” - but it was time for the bubble to burst, and a lot of the shitcoins and scams to shake out. Too many ICOs sold all their tokens to speculators, then wonder why the
What we learned at the Malta Blockchain Summit
Unpacking the piles of business cards and leaflets, scribbled notes (amazing how much still depends on paper at these events), and nursing sore feet and an overflowing mind. Yes, I just got back from
We Asked Crypto News Outlets If They’d Take Money to Cover a Project. More Than Half Said Yes
This is a depressing exposé of some terrible practice and ethics, in some key publications in the crypto space. We all know that much media in this industry falls into the ‘pay-to-play’ category, but
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Joins Ethereum-Based Venture Capital Firm | steve wozniak blockchain,apple cryptocurrency,apple cofounder,steve wozniak – CoinSpectator
“It’s a fad, it’s a scam” - if you listened too hard to twitter this week, it’d be easy to get overwhelmed by crypto-FUD. Instead, take a look at who’s really getting behind transformational projects,
Coinbase plans for hard Brexit by opening Dublin offices
Well so much for post-Brexit Britain becoming a hub of crypto innovation... don’t they realise that despite the fundamental differences, crypto is part of the global financial ecosystem, and needs to
A Coinbase Veteran Is Changing Sides in the Cryptocurrency Wars
This is very interesting, a signal that alongside the growth in institutional crypto investment, real progress is being made on the retail end. A heavyweight hire, who has an eye on transaction
UK Regulator to Use Blockchain to Manage Telephone Numbers
Interesting UK use-case for blockchain, and significant investment from the regulator. If it led to a way of tracking back all of those nuisance calls to source, that’d be a result in itself! The
Bitcoin is a Young Man’s Game
Maybe this is true right now when it comes to investment, but we’d respectfully argue that the future for bitcoin - and for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology generally - needs to be, and will
DLT and Blockchain: An Upgrade to How Humans Communicate, Plus Historical Nonsense, Psychology and Systems
Wow. Powerful and thought provoking article, which helped express ideas I have been circling round but not coalesced in this extraordinary way. If trust was a watershed moment in human evolution,
The Blockchain Doesn’t Care About You
What is this blockchain, on which we store our cryptocurrency? It's not your bank: it has no customer service department, no helpdesk, no pens on the end of bits of string. It won't lend a