UK crypto and Web3 firms face major hurdles accessing banking services, posing a threat to industry growth, reveals a new report by GDF, UKCBC, and the Startup Coalition. Concrete action is needed to secure the UK’s position as a digital asset leader.
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MicroStrategy’s Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Play: By leveraging low-interest convertible debt to amass a massive Bitcoin treasury, the company has turned itself into a high-stakes hedge against fiat devaluation.
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1 in 3 UK Businesses to Seek Financial Support in 2025, according to a BDO report. Supply chain issues and rising costs are key drivers, but nearly half of these businesses have plans to continue to invest
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BoE says no decision yet on introducing a digital pound.
The Bank of England, in collaboration with HM Treasury, is exploring the introduction of a digital pound to modernise the payments landscape. https://t.co/dZcTzhGihr
"Crypto's Next Big Ally: Political Power?"
As the U.S. braces for potential political shifts, the question arises: Will future political leadership be the key to unlocking crypto's full potential?
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Animated Chart: The S&P 500 in 2023 So Far 📊
This piece by @chartfleau is part of Visual Capitalist’s Creator Program, featuring work from the world’s top data-driven talent ✅
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Things have deteriorated so much that the average American now has the same healthy life expectancy (years lived in good health) as someone in Blackpool, the town with England’s lowest life expectancy (by far), synonymous with deep-rooted social decline https://t.co/jicW0G4Uz4
The result is that the US is the only developed country where even if you strip out all Covid deaths, life expectancy still dropped by a year since 2019
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
I am going to try to explain why the Bank of England has gone into the market to buy up to £65bn of UK government bonds with maturities of 20 years or more, including £1bn today. It all stems from a dramatic collapse in the price of these government bonds, called gilts, a...