CrowdConscious - Surfing The Cryptoverse

I am the author of this piece of content and the original can be found on my Medium blog here .  Hello! As you may have heard,  NEO Blockchain has been considered the ‘Chinese Ethereum’  for about a year now since the project re-branded from Antshares.  This is because  NEO will perform similar functions as Ethereum does as a platform for decentralized applications with smart contract capabilities, among other tech integrations. NEO’s NEP-5 token standard is synonymous to Ethereum’s ERC-20 token standard   in terms of what they mean to the individual networks. Since the inception of ERC-20, there   have been over  85,000 tokens created on the Ethereum blockchain network , just under that particular standard. This is a major focus in NEO’s growth strategy, but instead of taking Ethereum’s radically decentralized approach, NEO grows stronger with regulatory compliance standards — meaning,   NEO is poised for institutional capital to f...

This post was originally published on my Medium blog and can be found here . I hope you enjoy and find this helpful! The content below is  heavily built on  this investigative article  from  FinanceFeeds .  For context , the author tells the unfortunate tale of  Social Trading  and its perilous pitfalls as Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) acts as a global regulator  of investment operations, implementing the ‘Iron Fist,’   MiFID II . The story gets interesting when Brokers find themselves under pressure because of the conflict of interest caused by incentive schemes implemented on Social Trading platforms. Social Trading Further Catalyzes the Convergence of Financial Regulation & Technology Social Trading  is really just the utilization of user-generated content as trade signals and wisdom-of-the-crowd to make online investment trades.  Social trading sites  usually  provide their users  with a...