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Jack Martin

Jack Martin's Observations 202 Articles
Newsletters   -   Jan 21, 2024 Sunday Review 21/01/2024
Sunday Review 21/01/2024

To the casual Observer, a large cohort of the crypto community might seem borderline obsessed with just one question, "Wen moon?" Well this week was 'Wen', at least for the Japanese space agency, which managed to gently land its SLIM lunar lander on the surface of

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Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Jan 20, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 20/01/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Observers

For all the key details of new blockchain projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' has you covered. Starting off with the tokenization of real-world assets, global credit ratings agency Moody's

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Newsletters   -   Jan 14, 2024 Sunday Review 14/01/2024
Observers Sunday Review

The U.K. government has found itself in the middle of a(nother) political firestorm this week... and all thanks to a TV drama. Mr Bates vs the Post Office told the story of hundreds of sub-postmasters who were prosecuted for false accounting and theft between 1999 and 2015, due

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Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Jan 13, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 13/01/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 13/01/2024

For all the key details of new blockchain projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' has you covered. This week it has been difficult to avoid the SEC's approval of 11

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Bitcoin   -   Jan 13, 2024 Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval: All Over Bar the Shouting… So Much Shouting
Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval: All Over Bar the Shouting… So Much Shouting

Anyone hoping that the SEC’s approval of several spot bitcoin ETFs this week might lead to a brief respite in the topic’s domination of the crypto news cycle is sadly out of luck. If anything, reporting seems instead to have kicked into overdrive. We sift through the noise to give the full picture.

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Newsletters   -   Jan 07, 2024 Sunday Review 07/01/2024
Sunday Review 07/01/2024

So, barely a week into the new year, and already the old guard is being outclassed by young upstarts. For starters, there was the 13-year-old U.S. Tetris master who claimed to be the first human player to finish the Nintendo GameBoy version to completion since it was released in

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Banking CBDC Roundup   -   Jan 06, 2024 Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 06/01/2024
Banking and CBDC Weekend Roundup 06/01/2024

For all the key details of new blockchain projects in the banking world, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) updates, the Observers 'Banking and CBDC Roundup' has you covered. It's fair to say that in the two weeks since our last Banking

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Observers   -   Dec 31, 2023 Observers Review of 2023
Observers Annual Review

What a year it has been. The crypto industry entered 2023 battered and bruised, still dealing with the fallout of the FTX collapse, although Sam Bankman-Fried had managed to buy his way out of prison (temporarily, at least) with a $250 million bail bond. The FTX drama hit as the

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