Dr James Bayley

The Scottish National Party wants a new currency for Scotland. Will they chose Bitcoin? read the full article Scots Want to Abandon The Pound – Will They Choose Bitcoin? on the crypto directory CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY.read the full article Scots Want to Abandon The Pound – Will They Choose Bitcoin? on CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY.

This week has had multiple revelations of in-fighting at MakerDAO. Brady Dale at CoinDesk broke the story on Thursday and we reported on Governance issues the same day. Since then Zandy’s story and Matt’s story have been posted on Reddit. We have also found a Medium blog post with… read the full article MakerDAO: Christensen…

Bank runs are an intrinsic risk in the fiat world because banks “borrow short and lend long”. Learn why Bitcoin is the safer choice for savers. read the full article Bitfinex scandal – Bitcoin stops bank runs on the crypto directory CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY.read the full article Bitfinex scandal – Bitcoin stops bank runs on CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY.

Maker CEO Rune tries to fire 5 of his board – what should be done? read the full article MakerDAO Scandal: English or American Governance? on the crypto directory CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY.read the full article MakerDAO Scandal: English or American Governance? on CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY.

Yesterday PayWithMoon announced that you could now shop at Amazon using Bitcoin. This is pretty much the ultimate goal of any cryptocurrency and deserves more investigation. I have long been convinced of Bitcoin’s  claim to  be the premier store of value but I have always been skeptical of … read the full article Will Dash…

The BBC published an article yesterday about “slashies“. This being the BBC, I assumed that it referred to a new sexual orientation and that LGBT+ was not enough (thank god for Unicode). But no, It refers to the fact that many of us now have two different careers or roles. For… read the full article…

UK banks don’t want poor customers so regulators should allow crypto to do the job… read the full article Abolish “Free” Banking to Help The Poor on the crypto directory CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY.read the full article Abolish “Free” Banking to Help The Poor on CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY.

The saga of the stable-ish coin Dai continued this week with the revelation that 90% of the debt is concentrated in 250 Collateralised Deposit Positions (CDP). Dai is issued by a decentralised autonomous organisation called MakerDAO. Users deposit Ethereum and can borrow Dai which is pegged to 1… read the full article Decentralise or Dia…

Tether and Dai are two prominent stablecoins. Each has its benefits and challenges. Tether Tether used to claim that every coin was backed by USD in their bank. No-one believed them and it was suspected that they ran a fractional reserve and used the free capital to make money on Bitfinex. After… read the full…