| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.05.2022 | NFTs have an image problem and it needs to be fixed | Never go to your first top-level conference gig for two years and leave your phone behind is the advice I received this week.
Maybe it was nerves about being on stage for the first time since the pandemic or the 530-mile return trip by car ... |
| 06.05.2022 | After 15 Years Writing About Startups This Journalist Became An Entrepreneur | Monty Munford, co-founder and journalist Image by Dan Taylor |
| 29.04.2022 | More TradFi in DeFi as Sienna Network launches SiennaLend, a private crypto lending platform | It was last year that we covered the $11.2 million fundraise for Sienna Network, the “privacy decentralized startup”. The network is built on the Secret Network, which allows asset holders to switch to privacy-oriented tokens. Privacy-based... |
| 29.04.2022 | Privacy preserving crypto lending platform SiennaLend emerges from stealth | Under development and fine-tuning for the past 15 months, Sienna Network has recently launched SiennaLend, a service the group claims to be the ‘first-ever’ private crypto lending platform.
Built upon the privacy-preserving Secret Network, ... |
| 04.03.2022 | Ukraine and crypto donations show how good will triumph over evil… hopefully | Some decades ago when my youth was dominated by the Cold War and constant fears of nuclear war, I was in Sweden with the first ‘important’ girlfriend where I lived for a while. |
| 11.02.2022 | Crypto exchanges, gambling, ducks and long lunches. Are they related? | Two noteworthy things happened this week in my world and a huge one in the bigger crypto world, and I wondered if they could be related.
The first was one of minor shame. After a very long lunch in Soho that lasted 13 hours, I realised that... |
| 28.01.2022 | Chickey Chik hatches a plan to bring NFTs to the masses | At the end of 2021, and twelve months of relentless hysteria about NFTs, things took a surreal turn when one particular Manchester United footballer popped up on Twitter with a video. |
| 21.01.2022 | Drawing crypto comparisons from a 60s French film and inspiration from Brentford | Sometimes things are better the second time around; unlike Ronaldo rejoining Manchester United… and how my team Brentford didn’t beat his team this week still baffles me. Come on, you Bees!
Earlier this week I also introduced my son to the ... |
| 07.01.2022 | Pundits who ‘know’ crypto are donkeys and asses | Today was the first time in my so-called career as a writer that one of my many editors has called me a donkey.
That’s not because of my hee-hawing or hanging tendencies, but because I failed to file my copy on Christmas Eve. When you’re bu... |
| 29.10.2021 | Crypto and Likvidi Warm Up For COP26 | How much has traditional finance depleted the world of its resources and how responsible is it for global warming, the real phrase for what was rebranded as ‘climate change’ by vested parties? |
| 07.10.2021 | SiennaSwap to boost DeFi adoption with market maker launch | Sienna Network has launched its Automated Market Maker SiennaSwap to ensure that users enjoy DeFi tools in complete privacy. |
| 20.08.2021 | I’ve spotted curious similarities between Bitcoin and the Taliban… | Some years ago, in the mid-1990s, I had the dubious pleasure of being hosted by Pakistani militants in a sink estate in Islamabad. And by sink estate, I mean 50 metres underwater. |
| 07.08.2021 | Coinbase gets its (second) act together – really | The crypto market is beginning to bellow like a bull again after growling like a bear for a couple of months. Readers of this column will know why, so I won’t insult their asset-intelligence, but it’s been a week for optimism. |
| 30.07.2021 | Volatility is all the rage – time to get used to it | There’s clearly a huge difference between HODL and FUD, both polarising terms that are decentralised in themselves, but they also have something very much in common. |
| 23.07.2021 | The difference between privacy DeFi and anonymity is huge | Imagine that one of you lovely readers sent me an email and I replied. Imagine that once I did that you could see every email I had ever sent and every detail therein. |
| 02.07.2021 | Monte Carlo or bust! Physical crypto conferences are back | In November of the year 2020 or whenever that was, I was invited to Pakistan to speak IN PERSON at an event in Karachi and gladly accepted it. Karachi: proper bandit country. Who wouldn’t go? |
| 25.06.2021 | John McAfee’s death and the inevitable end of anti-scarlet pimpernels | Earlier this month I celebrated a significant birthday, but on Tuesday I received (significantly) more messages that evening than I did on my birthday. |
| 01.06.2021 | Gibraltar-based DeFi privacy keeper Panther Protocol closes $8 million in private sale | The privacy proposition in the world of DeFi is heating up, as Gibraltar-based Panther Protocol has raised $8 million in a private sale that saw over 140 investors jump on board.
Much like we reported about Sienna Network a few weeks back, ... |
| 28.05.2021 | Brentford FC And Alt Coins – Are they related? | For those of us with a high existential level of angst, terror and nausea, tomorrow will be one of those days when we wish we had never read Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Nietszche or Heidegger. |
| 21.05.2021 | Crypto dopamine levels plummet – time for the real world | Yesterday I had a very, very long lunch in Soho. Great friends, outrageous food and the type of social necessity that was wrenched from us about 15 months ago. |
| 10.05.2021 | Sienna Network Raises $11.2M to Build Out DeFi Functionality on Secret Platform | The Sienna Network, a privacy-focused, cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has raised $11.2 million in a private and public token sale. Of the total amount, $10 million came from long-term investors including NGC, Inclusion C... |
| 10.05.2021 | Privacy first DeFi Sienna Network raises $11.2 million, takes front-running head on | For those in the know, front-running is a problem when it comes to financial privacy in the world of crypto. Because of the nature of the blockchain-based world, that is, transparency, if you know where and when to look, and what to do (I’m... |
| 03.05.2021 | Secret Network Raises $11.5M to Further Privacy and App Development | Several large venture capital firms have acquired a stake in SCRT, the native token of Secret Network, a layer 1 blockchain featuring privacy-preserving smart contracts. The position, amounting to $11.5 million, was led by Arrington Capital... |
| 03.05.2021 | In the race toward Web 3 financial privacy, Secret Network attracts backing from key players | In the real world — the world on which the global economy runs — we don’t expose every aspect of our financial activity in public. We want to be able to select which parties can access our financial data and under what circumstances — for e... |
| 30.04.2021 | Neverland or Nomadland for older crypto investors? | There’s no end to it, question after question. Just because I know a little bit about crypto and write a weekly column about it, suddenly I’m an expert to the women and men on the street. |
| 23.04.2021 | Balls to Britpop, Britbox and Britcoin! | Many moons ago on the way to Wembley Stadium to watch the Wayne Rooney testimonial (aka an England international friendly), I did the usual and met a mate in a Baker Street boozer before getting the Tube to the ground. |
| 09.04.2021 | Lockdown easing dawns on Bitcoin’s revolution | It is said that the darkest hour is just before the dawn, but if you look at it another way, the darkest hour is probably a long time before that, probably just after dusk with all that night ahead. |
| 26.03.2021 | Germinate, Determinate, Exterminate | Germinate, Determinate, Exterminate
Some businesses are more perfectly formed and modern than others, so please step forward award-winning mobile location company Mobsta as 2021’s coolest company to date. |
| 12.03.2021 | Easy with the AI and NFTs – we need monozukuri | Most people may not be acquainted with the 73-year-old Japanese man Mitsuru Kawai, but his 2017 job promotion at Toyota may be the early saving of humanity. |
| 05.03.2021 | Pet or crypto price inflation – which puppy are you on? | These were the florid words of Ryan Fischer, Lady Gaga’s dog walker, after he was shot in Los Angeles recently and two of Gaga’s French bulldogs stolen. |
| 02.03.2021 | Crypto AM shines its spotlight on the Sienna Foundation | DeFi has seen immense growth over the last few years and shows no signs of slowing down. Wonderful use cases have already emerged and it has become apparent DeFi is here to disrupt Wall Street and beyond. |
| - | Privacy first DeFi Sienna Network raises $11.2 million, takes front-running head on | For those in the know, front-running is a problem when it comes to financial privacy in the world of crypto. Because of the nature of the blockchain-based world, that is, transparency, if you know where and when to look, and what to do (I'm... |
| - | Gibraltar-based DeFi privacy keeper Panther Protocol closes $8 million in private sale | The privacy proposition in the world of DeFi is heating up, as Gibraltar-based Panther Protocol has raised $8 million in a private sale that saw over 140 investors jump on board.
Much like we reported about Sienna Network a few weeks back, ... |
| - | Privacy preserving crypto lending platform SiennaLend emerges from stealth | Under development and fine-tuning for the past 15 months, Sienna Network has recently launched SiennaLend, a service the group claims to be the ‘first-ever’ private crypto lending platform.
Built upon the privacy-preserving Secret Network, ... |
