02/11/2021

Ex-Macquarie brothers raise $25m for green bitcoin miner

Bitcoin reached record highs this week after Tesla invested $US1.5 billion ($1.9 billion). Iris Energy is an infrastructure play: it can continue to make revenue mining bitcoin when its price falls, given its low-cost structure.

02/05/2021

China Leads Africa’s Digital Currency Race

Now, China can launch its digital currency on top of this stack, running on specially designed chips embedded deep within dozens of popular Chinese phone brands that dominate Africa.

02/05/2021

Singapore fintech TranSwap to build Edinburgh R&D centre

The firm will set up its R&D centre at the University of Edinburgh’s Bayes Centre, creating 54 jobs over the next three years, including high-value roles such as machine learning engineers and full-stack developers.