President Maduro enters the world of cryptocurrencies. Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? The fact that the answer is an obvious “no” lies at the heart of Venezuela’s problem. Inflation in the Bolivar currency is running at more than 11,000 percent. Lucky Venezuelans are hungry; many others are actually starving. Medicine […]
Author Archives: Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie
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Feb
Feb
As cryptocurrencies draw more attention from global regulators, BitcoinBro’s CEO Oliver von Landsberg Sadie talks with Nejra Cehic on Bloomberg Market TV’s ‘Rules and Returns’. In the UK there is a huge opportunity, right now, for banks and the FCA to embrace innovation in this space.
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Feb
Bloomberg’s Matt Miller talks with BitcoinBro’s CEO Oliver von Landsberg Sadie about Bitcoin’s growing pains, regulation and criminal activity on Bitcoin.
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Jan
Warren Buffett once famously identified a natural progression of “three I’s” as to how good new ideas go wrong.
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Jan
Jan
The man responsible for interpreting religious law in Egypt has banned Bitcoin. Grand Mufti Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam has issued a fatwa telling Muslims the world’s most famous cryptocurrency is haram – or forbidden. They are not allowed to sell, buy or rent using Bitcoin. Whether his order applies to just Egypt’s Muslims – or […]
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According to the billionaire Carl Icahn, the answer is yes. He told CNBC this week that it is similar to swampland next to the Mississippi river. He’s talking there about a bubble that nearly bankrupted France, back in the early 1700s.
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Nov
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While Bitcoin soars to new all time highs in international markets, its value attracts even greater premiums in struggling markets.
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Oct
This independent guide walks you through the setup of Jaxx, a popular and free software wallet. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are held in wallets, which hold the public and private keys required for transactions. A wallet can take the form of a downloadable app, a piece of specialist hardware or simply a piece of paper.
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We explain how Bitcoin transactions are made of inputs and outputs, comparable to double-entry bookkeeping, and how they are linked in irreversible chains.
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Aug
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Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie talks to Fergus Nicholl on BBC World Service about the Bitcoin Cash fork and about Bitcoin’s popularity in some countries.
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