Sending money overseas with Bitcoin
Bitcoin has a lot of uses in real life. It makes payments much easier by allowing people to pay from anywhere in the world. In that sense, it also helps the e-commerce industry. It allows business owners to expand their market reach and add another mode of payment. Another real-life use is Bitcoin’s ability to preserve wealth. Countries with struggling economies can use bitcoin to preserve the value of their native currencies. With all those real-life uses, we have yet to mention the one that stands out the most: remittances. According to a report on Clovr, cryptocurrencies take 15.8% of the total money being sent across the world in 2018. […]
Bitcoin – The Future of Money
Technology has changed the world around us, penetrating into our daily lives to such an extent that it’s now difficult to imagine the world without it. The financial industry has been particularly impacted by digital advances, going from banknotes to credit cards to Bitcoin in just a few decades. But is Bitcoin really the future of money? Or is it just a fad destined to go away when some other form of electronic cash appears? To answer these questions, we must first take a closer look at the evolution of money to see its possible future. The Evolution of Money The evolution of money is long and winding, but most […]
Make money while you sleep with technology and automation
Technology and automation are delivering Australians new ways to earn money while they’re sleeping.There has been rapid growth in new savings and investment products that allow people to start building wealth with a few taps of their smartphone or computer keyboard, then let the power of compound interest do its work.Here are four ways to get rich automatically. ROUNDING UP Fast-growing financial technology company Raiz automatically moves its clients’ spare change to an investment portfolio or superannuation. It rounds up every transaction to the nearest dollar, and now manages more than $270 million of people’s funds, up 60 per cent in the past nine months. Raiz managing director George Lucas […]
Teens are putting ‘Fortnite’ virtual money ‘V-Bucks’ at the top of their holiday wish lists
If you’re unsure what to get the young teen in your life for the holidays, you may want to put away the gift cards and cash in favour of spending money for the ever-popular video game “Fortnite.” A survey of thousands of teens found that, for the first time, one of their most-requested gifts for this holiday season are “V-Bucks,” the virtual in-game currency used in “Fortnite: Battle Royale.” The annual report on teens’ holiday wish lists, from analyst firm Piper Jaffray, also saw another newcomer – cryptocurrency, the “money of the future.” “Fortnite,” a multiplayer-last-man-standing type game, has exponentially grown in popularity since its Battle Royale mode launched in […]
Stablecoins: Money of the Future
Stablecoins are currently the fastest growing sector of the cryptocurrency market, worth $186 billion; these constitute cryptocurrencies whose values are pegged to real life commodities like gold or the US dollar. This is opposed to traditional cryptocurrencies—such as Bitcoin or Ethereum—whose markets are very volatile and can fluctuate by 10-20 percent in the space of a few hours, causing massive uncertainty among investors. Governments across the globe, from Australia to Sweden, are realizing stablecoins’s potential and developing their own, in addition to official blockchain funds which develop GPB and Japanese Yen-pegged coins. Types of Stablecoins There are numerous stablecoins on the market, which fall into three main categories: fully collateralized, […]
The Perth women making your life better with technology
While most of the world is still coming to grips with just what blockchain is there are two West Australian women who have poured everything they have into taming the digital beast to tackle real world problems and improve everyday life. Blockchain is the underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but across the globe entrepreneurs to huge multinationals are exploring its use in other areas like financial services, energy and education. In its simplest form a blockchain is a digital transaction record that isn’t stored on any one computer. This decentralisation means once a transaction is recorded it cannot be tampered with, making the technology attractive to banks and finance […]
Brutal honesty and collaboration: Life after an equity crowdfund raise
Manrags co-founder Michael Elias has spent the past week preparing to welcome 177 investors on board his business. The Melbourne-based underwear subscription business, which Elias founded with his wife Tina, successfully raised $363,000 two weeks ago through an equity crowdfunding campaign. The raise elevates Manrags into a small cohort of businesses that have successfully closed off this type of fundraising since licences were issued to equity crowdfunding platforms in January. “We hadn’t even run a capital raise to begin with, and just going down the path of a capital raise is quite full on,” Elias says. A new type of investor Now the process is complete, Manrags will be one […]
Automated advice to help Australians’ money grow
Cotton farmer George Stacey grows crops for a living and he’s also focused on watching his finances flourish. A long way from the hustle and bustle of city life, the 24-year-old works on a 97,000 hectare farm in Goondiwindi, 300km southwest of Brisbane, and said he loves investing in companies all over the world “from my couch in remote western Queensland.” Following in his father’s footsteps of investing, Mr Stacey said “ever since I was a young kid when the finance news would come I had a bit of an interest in it and my dad invested in a share portfolio”. “When I went out west and I started to […]
