EY’s Paul Brody Expects Consumer DeFi Ignition in 2021

It was just last month that IBM's plans for an "Internet of things" architecture that would feature Bitcoin blockchain technology were revealed. IBM's planned project, called Adept, utilizes three distinct technologies including the blockchain, TeleHash, and BitTorrent. IBM's head of mobile and internet Paul Brody is the "VP of the Internet of Things" and is in charge of the project. In a recent talk with Gigaom at their Structure Connect event in San Francisco, Brody further explained his vision for the Internet of Things and he emphasized that developers should welcome open-source....

Paul Brody, a prominent figure in the blockchain community and the Global Blockchain Leader at Ernst & Young (EY), recently shed light on the burgeoning demand for crypto, with Bitcoin taking the limelight. Earlier today, during a CNBC interview, Brody emphasized the heightened interest, particularly from family offices. Family Offices Lead The Charge According to Brody, family offices, which typically manage the vast wealth of affluent families, are increasingly diversifying their portfolios with cryptocurrencies. This is not entirely surprising, given the meteoric rise of Bitcoin and its....

Traders push their SOL/USD bids higher after Solana teases the community with "ignition," a mysterious feature that will go live on Aug. 31. Solana (SOL) prices rose on Aug. 30 as traders speculated on what appeared to be a key but mysterious feature launch later this week.The SOL/USD exchange rate climbed to a new record high of $103.06 following a 9.35% intraday rally. The upside move surfaced days after Solana introduced "Ignition" on their official media handles. However, the team provided little details about the tool but prompted the community to guess that it would be about burning....

Famed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones has updated his view on bitcoin. Envisioning a bullish future similar to “the metals complex where you have precious crypto,” he says that $500 billion is the wrong market cap for bitcoin, given all the “possibilities that it has.” He expects that the path forward for bitcoin from here is “north.” Paul Tudor Jones Expects Bitcoin’s Price to Head ‘North’ Paul Tudor Jones was again asked about bitcoin in an interview on Yahoo Finance on Thursday. The founder of asset management firm Tudor....

People over 55 and under 64 years of age represent the largest age bracket who have fallen prey to scams. Australians have continued getting duped by investment and crypto-related scams, losing 242.5 million Australian dollars to scammers so far in 2022, according to Scamwatch’s latest data. From January to July of this year, the majority of all funds lost to scams of all types were investment scams, which range from romance baiting scams to classic Ponzi schemes and cryptocurrency scams.The figure is already 36% higher than the figures across all of 2021, which revealed that Australians....