Today sees the launch of the Coinbase IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. This is a major step forward in bringing cryptoland right into the mainstream. We run a short excerpt from a current article by MarketWatch: Coinbase is the talk of Wall Street, as the largest crypto platform in the U.S. gears up for its public debut on a traditional exchange Wednesday, through a direct listing. There is no doubt that the public offering of Coinbase is a big deal in the world of crypto. The company was created just over a decade ago with the genesis of …
Our head of content and communications is publishing a series of articles on the future of finance and the massive impact of the digital world in Byline Times. Here’s an extract from the first piece. Rethinking the nature of money is serious stuff: it is in effect the re-examination of a concept of value exchange that’s been central to society, certainly every mercantile culture for thousands of years – from Pacific conch shells, to gold, to promissory notes and credit cards. A key to unpicking this foundation-stone concept involves delving into some deepish background. This is the first of a …