Lima Capital – May Newsletter 2022
2022 is shaping up to be another "what the [...]
Explain It To Me Like I’m Five
Reducing complex topics to simple and easy to understand [...]
Crypto In Your Portfolio
What Is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is both a network and [...]
Crypto: A New Asset Class
In the early days of bitcoin, the industry made a grave mistake; they bundled all the projects together and dubbed them "cryptocurrencies". The term cryptocurrency has hindered the space more than any event, hack or uninformed opinion out of Wall Street. It assumes that everything in crypto is attempting to become a global currency; this couldn't be further from the truth.
Bitcoin FUD
This week we thought we would take some time to reflect on the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) surrounding bitcoin and its network. These stories and FUD only really seem to rear their head every few years or so when bitcoin is in the spotlight and regulators are anxious.
Layer 2 Scaling Solutions
Today we will explore layer 2 scaling solutions. With the high cost of Ethereum gas fees at the moment, we decided it was an appropriate topic to delve into. But Why Do We Need Layer 2's In The First Place? All blockchains have their limitations. They make tradeoffs to provide a specific service to their end-users. Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, has dubbed it the blockchain trilemma
Bitcoin and Value
“Bitcoin has no fundamental value” has long been the war cry for many traditional financial participants. This week we thought we could shed some light on this short-sighted mantra.
5 Things You Need to Know About Bitcoin
Money has always been technology. It allows society to store time, effort and sacrifice today and redeem it for time, effort, and sacrifice in the future. Similar to how a title deed gives the holder a claim on a property, money is a claim on human time. When we exchange our time for money we hope that it can hold value for long enough to enable us to trade it for something we want.
Ethereum: A New Financial Network
Our banking and financial networks of today are simply communication networks for settling financial transactions, they guarantee that transactions will be processed, executed, and settled. Banks are responsible for interfacing with these networks on behalf of their clients — sending the right messages and responding appropriately to messages received. The internet brought us, as users of banks, that much closer to their messaging network, allowing for online banking and fast mobile payments all whilst hundreds of bank branches closed across the globe.
Stackr and NONA partner
In bringing this first mover savings solution for the blockchain community to market, the NONA team will be in charge of primary technological developments, including the building of interfaces and application programming interfaces (APIs).
Stackr is a long-term savings solution that enables investors to hold a diversified portfolio of both capital and digital assets, using a personalised trust structure.