Journalist. Full-time on oil, part-time on crypto.
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An oil tanker chartered by Litasco (100% owned subsidiary of Russia's Lukoil) docked at Tranmere on 3 March with approval of port authority Peel Ports Group.
@grantshapps, is that a violation of the 1 March sanctions banning vessels chartered by "persons connected with Russia"?
'In some sense, it's an existential threat to what we do,' says Mark Durbin, head of Fidelity Institutional.
This afternoon he told Coindesk's Consensus 2021 conference why the global financial services company is delving into crypto and blockchain.
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Chicago has been nurturing a flush of DeFi firms, while New York's regulation has been shutting them out.
Consensus 2021 heard about it from the leaders of the Chicago scene.
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'There's no energy problem. Bitcoin is the energy solution.'
Marty Bent took a characteristically adversarial line on bitcoin critics and the energy question in a feisty panel at Coindesk's Consensus 2021 conference.
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Spain's Repsol will shortly stop all fuel production at the Puertollano refinery under economic pressure. For many refiners, the return of profit is retreating further into the future as fresh lockdowns come into force around Europe.
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Insurers have fallen way behind this crypto bull market. Many firms in the space still struggle to get any coverage at all. Now a British start-up believes it can be the Lloyds of crypto.
My latest for Coindesk.
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Fortunate to get to write an article while I interned at the Times and speak to two very inspiring young entrepreneurs, @PuraCosRose and @harvinderpower.
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Benedict George retweeted
I like & respect my local Labour MP, I like & respect many senior Labour MPs who’ve urged me to be patient but, right now, if I voted for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party I wouldn’t be able to look a Jew, an EU citizen, anyone set to be hurt by Brexit or myself in the eye ever again.
A new report says crypto miners probably aren't using your personal computer without your consent--they're using your work computer instead.
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Crypto has been edging closer to the mainstream this week. You can pay with bitcoin on Amazon via a browser extension, you can filter Yelp results by 'accepts bitcoin' and now this...
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Is crypto entering the mainstream?
Amazon doesn't actually touch bitcoin: but a browser extension called Moon will take your bitcoin and change it for fiat currency, then pay Amazon.
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The response has been slow to this drive for crypto donations for Notre Dame: at the time of tweeting, around $1,200 in bitcoin and $56 in Ethereum have been donated.
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Christine Lagarde: “We don’t want to shake the system so much that we would lose the stability that is needed.”
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Harvard has invested in a blockchain app platform. Does that mean the technology is mainstream now?
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There's something fishy going on with Dream - and it's not the option to get cocaine delivered to your door.
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Large survey finds coders are very divided about blockchain, and the biggest predictor of their attitude is their age.
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Visiting the wrong website can let silent hijackers use your device and your energy to mine crypto without you knowing. Mozilla Firefox is one of the browsers introducing protections.
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