Amid eucalyptus trees and native shrubs, a biotechnology-focused virtual reality and blockchain company found a home on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus in La Jolla. Founded in 2015 by Chief Executive Officer Steve McCloskey, who graduated from…
Could “proof of existence”, a protocol made possible by blockchain technology, get rid of the fake news and imposter websites which litter the world wide web? BTC Media, likely the largest blockchain publisher alongside CoinDesk, thinks so. The publication began…
Counterfeit wine is a billion dollar market – approximately $3 billion per year says Maureen Downey, an expert on fake wine. One wine fraudster, Indonesian Rudy Kurniawan, is serving time for selling $500,000,000 worth of fake wine. Shanghai-based blockchain company…
“Bitcoin and blockchain technology enable numerous possibilities to build a truly fair and inclusive financial system,” Kumar Guarav, Founder of Cashaa/Auxesis Group, tells me for MaxKeiser.com. “International money transfer, with which we have started, both for individuals and businesses, has…
Agrello’s Chief Scientist, Alex Norta, has spent 16 years researching digital contracting and smart contract technology. He is pouring the information he gained from this experience into Agrello, an agent-powered interface allowing users to build smart contract-based legal agreements on…
Bitcoin was celebrated for its potential to disintermediate banks from settlement in global transactions, but many of the remittance companies in the space depend on these very institutions as partners. In going through the traditional banking system, their ability to…
“Attention is a resource—a person has only so much of it,” as Matthew Crawford succinctly put the notion that human attention is a scarce commodity. Blockchain applications in this Attention Economy space have put such principles into action: Brave, Steemit…
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is using Richard Branson’s Virgin One brand as an alleged ‘cover’ to pursue legal cases attempting to bankrupt RBS/NatWest customers. But, in a bizarre twist, these customers have never even held an account with…
In the December 2016 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast, the Taxcast: In trusts we trust? We look at the new game in town: beneficial ownership avoidance, the booming industry in alternative escape vehicles from public registers and why we must…
In the December 2016 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast, the Taxcast: In trusts we trust? We look at the new game in town: beneficial ownership avoidance, the booming industry in alternative escape vehicles from public registers and why we must…
Welcome to the Tax Justice Network November 2016 Podcast! In this month’s Taxcast: – Tax Inspectors Without Borders – we look at a practical project that’s changing lives and aiming to level the global playground of tax-minimising multinational companies. –…
Since evidence of RBS Global Restructuring Group (GRG) deliberate “Dash for Cash” strategy of targeting and destroying viable and profitable SME businesses for profit was broken by Buzzfeed and BBC News on Monday 10 October, several myths have emerged in…
In the October 2016 Tax Justice Network podcast: we look at the offshorisation of Iceland’s economy, its collapse and recovery. What are the lessons? Also, Brazil adds Ireland to its tax haven black list and Panama threatens anyone who dares…
In Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s famous 1935 thought experiment – a cat is placed within a box, containing toxic radioactive atomic particles, and is said to be simultaneously both dead and alive, depending on a series of random events, which…
Right now the market is perceived to be so dangerous that it’s even chased the most fearless value investors to the sidelines. Just this evening, in the Presidential debate, Trump warned that the stock market was a bubble “about to…