M & A watch — evaluating the ‘Virtual Merger’
The recent tidal wave of ICOs has seen billions raised but precious little so far in the way of products and services delivered. One reason for this may be that core devs are being sidetracked assembling all the components of a ‘real’ business — and losing focus on their grand vision. One potential solution for these stalled projects, say some, is the ‘virtual merger'...
Can Bitcoin actually remove the middlemen from corporate finance?
If you’ve been involved with blockchain for a while, you may have picked up on a recurring theme in many recent news stories — something along the lines of ‘blockchain is the future,’ ‘it will only continue to grow in the coming years’, and ‘it will revolutionize corporate finance by de-centralizing lending and removing the need for middlemen.” Are they right? Currently, there are two dominant perspectives on that.
Blockstream Satellite broadcasting the Bitcoin blockchain across the globe
Blockstream has just announced that the Bitcoin blockchain is now being broadcast from space. The new service, Blockstream Satellite, streams data down to much of the planet’s surface for free, in order to boost the connectivity, decentralization, redundancy, affordability, security, privacy, and ultimately adoption of Bitcoin. “Blockstream Satellite enables further participation in Bitcoin,” states the company, “including the billions of people in the world without internet access and people in places where bandwidth prices make participating cost-prohibitive.”
Ex-S&P Capital IQ data executive joins BNC as Head of Business Development
Data and Information Executive Rory Manchee has joined Melbourne-based blockchain technology vendor BNC. The new Head of Business Development is responsible for planning and executing its Digital Assets Market-Data, business and product development efforts.
