February 18–20, 2025 · Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre Here is a fact I find quite astonishing, and it is the key to this entire event. Trading cryptocurrency is banned on the Chinese mainland. It is licensed, regulated and actively courted in Hong Kong — a city that is part of China. Somewhere in […]
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Let me make the case for the least thrilling thing in crypto. Most stories in this industry arrive dressed as revolutions. Tear down the banks, storm the citadel, replace the whole rotten edifice with something pure and mathematical. XRP’s story is not that story. XRP’s story is a plumber. It has no interest whatsoever in
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Bitcoin has been declared dead more than four hundred times, by one popular tally that gleefully keeps count. It has made early believers extraordinarily rich and late arrivals considerably poorer. It has been banned, ridiculed, celebrated, and then quietly bought by the very institutions that spent a decade sneering at it. So what on earth
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Let me start with a confession. “Decentralised finance” is one of those phrases flung about constantly and explained clearly rarely. It sounds important. It sounds technical. And a great many of the people nodding along to it in conversation are doing precisely that — nodding along. I was one of them for an embarrassingly long
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Part 4 of 4 — what blockchain is genuinely good for, and what it is not. Here is the part nobody leads with, because it doesn’t sell tickets. Blockchain is slow. It is expensive. It is fragmented into hundreds of chains that cannot speak to one another. Seventeen years after the first block was mined,
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Part 3 of 4 — when the ledger stops recording and starts doing. Bitcoin proved that a shared ledger could record who paid whom without a soul in the middle vouching for any of it. Which is a marvellous achievement, and also — if you and I are going to be honest with one another
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Part 2 of 4 — why nobody can rewrite the past, and why nobody wants to. The shared notebook is brilliant, until somebody picks up an eraser. That is where we left off: a public ledger, copied across thousands of computers, readable by anybody who fancies a look. Wonderful feature. Rather obvious problem. If everyone
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