Fran Strajnar

With Central Banks around the world appearing to move ever closer to the launch of Central Bank Digital Currencies, BNC Founder Fran Strajnar suggests we are sleepwalking into a dystopian quagmire.

The current banking crisis is a result of the “transitory” lie. The Fed should have reacted to inflation six months earlier, and raised rates more gradually. Instead, they slammed on the brakes and now we have a car crash.

The fake volume problem is getting worse. In the period from November 2018 to January 2019 BNC analysis identified 68% of reported market volume on the 240 exchanges it tracks as being suspect - up from 54% in the previous period. For the cryptocurrency ecosystem to achieve its full potential this flagrant misrepresentation must end.

We have already crossed that murky threshold in blockchain where its early use cases attracted conmen and people circumventing the law. Now it’s attracting the best and the brightest of the legacy markets - mavericks with unique perspectives and ‘veteran’ credentials.

As Ethereum marked the third anniversary of its genesis block on July 30th, has it made enough progress to ward off upstart challengers like EOS or Hashgraph, or just created a platform for them to leapfrog into the next generation of blockchain?

We are excited to announce that Thomson Reuters has added the Bitcoin Liquid Index (BLX) to its award-winning Eikon terminal. By adding a single, reliable USD price discovery tool and reference rate for Bitcoin, the Eikon terminal now extends its market data offerings beyond its traditional financial coverage and firmly enters the cryptocurrency space. The BLX gives Eikon’s growing network of professional and business subscribers a trusted live feed for gaining a competitive advantage. Thomson Reuters has led the way as one of the most relied upon sources for financial and business intelligence. Its award-winning Eikon software package connects its users with critical timely feeds from over 400 exchanges and OTC-traded markets. Over 210,000 Eikon Messenger users have access to trusted news content, data, analytics and insights, filtered to their exact needs. Available on both desktop and mobile devices, the Eikon trading software provides access to deep pools of liquidity, professional networks, expert analysis and insights on emerging and complex markets.

Here's one for all you Blockchain Geeks, App Developers and Traders who love novel data-sets & API's.

Unless you've been living under a FinTech rock, you would have noticed that Blockchains are the hottest topic in the space today. The quest to find functional Blockchain solution designs, which can scale to enterprise requirements, is at fever pitch.

A public good is a good that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous, in that individuals cannot be effectively excluded from use, and where use by one individual does not reduce availability to others.

There's not a single person in the western world, in high-finance especially, that has not at least heard of this exponentially disruptive tech. We are about to exit the early 'deceptive-stage