IMO as an expert

The futures markets are in full swing and price action on the Bitcoin trade has garnered a tremendous amount of activity over the past few weeks. The transaction memory pool has become filled with outstanding transactions to confirm. The average amount of transactions per block is close to an all time high. Bitcoins market dominance has dropped from a recent high on December 7th of 64% to now treading above 50% as the altcoin market has exploded this past week.

As of October 12, 2017, the capitalization of the cryptocurrency market has reached $162 billion.

The AML4 (Directive 2015/859 UE) was introduced in Italy with its publication in the Italian Official Journal of the Legislative Decree 25th  May 2017, n. 90 (G.U. n. 140 of 19th June 2017) with the total reform of the legislative decree 231/2007.

Bitcoin was born through an online forum. Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s founder, first published its white paper in late 2008 on the cypherpunk mailing list, which was used by cryptographers from around the globe beginning in the 1990s. Bitcoin’s initial growth was also largely driven by various online hacker forums.

The idea of crowdfunding isn’t a new one. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, writers and philosophers would frequently secure investment, or the pledge of investment, for their next work.

After nearly 10 years of exploration of blockchain technology, we are at the pinnacle of innovation, with a range of major corporations to small businesses exploring blockchain opportunities and use-cases to cut costs and add value throughout the business process. However, these recent developments have equally attracted interest from regulators across continents; prominent amongst them being Europe.

The WannaCry malware, that attacked 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries, exploiting a vulnerability of the Windows operating system, was developed to promote Bitcoin.

The World Bank are estimating that money flows from migrant workers to developing countries were worth US$ 440 billion last year, more than double foreign aid.

Just because Grindelwald and Dumbledore had a deadly brawl during their quest to revolutionise magic doesn’t mean two great powers cannot be used in concert to change the world. This could be the worst way to start an important conversation about financial technology, but stick with me, it gets more interesting.