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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a rise in digital localism — consumers using online local sites to buy and supply goods. Do platforms born during COVID-19 have a chance of survival?
While bitcoin is only a currency, the second-largest cryptocurrency is at the heart of a platform that aims to transform the internet.
Some say the world’s leading cryptocurrency will hit six figures before Christmas. Are they right?
An increasing number of individuals and companies are now investing in Bitcoin, the world’s largest and first fully-functioning cryptocurrency. But why? And which way is the market headed?
It is near impossible to regulate currencies and financial services that were built to avoid regulation – but it is increasingly necessary
There’s more substance to the surging price of Bitcoin than last time. But there’s still good reason to be cautious about investing in it.
In quick succession, UK has banned certain crypto derivatives trading and the owners of leading exchange BitMex have been indicted on criminal charges.
The cyber attacks on New Zealand’s stock market are part of global malicious activity. The government’s immediate goal is not to catch the perpetrators but to share information to stop the attacks.
Welcome to the financial revolution that you probably haven’t even heard of.
Twitter’s ‘blue tick’ club of influential users was locked out after financial scammers hacked celebrities’ accounts. But with ever more trust placed in social media, we stand to lose more than money.
There’s no indication that handling cash increases your chance of catching COVID-19. But that hasn’t stopped countries around the world from looking at digital currencies.
A decentralised climate organisation, based on blockchain, could help get the world to work together to act against climate change.
This major adjustment to how the cryptocurrency operates happens every four years.
Rumours of the collapse of the cryptoworld have been much exaggerated.
The illicit drug trade is thriving on the dark web because it’s seen as safer and more profitable than street dealing, according to encrypted interviews with people who sell drugs online.
Bitcoin is up over 40% in 2020, but the likes of ethereum, bitcoin cash and bitcoin SV have all achieved triple-digit rises.
The Bank of Canada is proposing a federally managed digital currency that flies in the face of the decentralized approach to money that cryptocurrencies have established.
Will 2020 be the year that the new threat to fiat currencies reaches maturity?
Stand by for cryptocurrencies 2.0.
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Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Law, University of East London
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Associate Professor in Financial Technology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Finance & Financial Technology, University of Reading
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor in International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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University Fellow in AI and Human Decision Making, University of Salford
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Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Hon Associate Professor. Research interests - AI and the law; Social relationships of trust; Sustainable futures, Australian National University
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
