Blockchain good, cryptocurrencies bad — how true? on February 5, 2018Many believe we have reached an important fork in the crypto path. Take the right turn and it will lead governments, old school financial institutions and Fortune 500 blue chips to a promised land enhanced by blockchain. Take the wrong one and you enter a world of multiplying virtual currencies driven by scammers, spivs and […]
SinoFortone – ragtag opportunists or a front for Beijing? on January 9, 2017Who and what is SinoFortone Group, the Chinese company based in London that says it is funding vast chunks of critical infrastructure, in the UK and beyond, and has been taken as a model for China’s state-run capitalist strategy? Is it really a front for the Chinese state’s fast and aggressive global investment drive? Or […]