Gary McFarlane, the cryptocurrency analyst at interactive investor, shares his thoughts – and those of other industry figures and experts – on Bakkt bitcoin futures. On 23 September Bakkt finally launches its physically settled bitcoin futures product – institutional customers can start depositing bitcoin from 6 September. But onboarding institutions into...
In the third part of his interview with derivatives lawyer Felix Shipkevich, Gary McFarlane finds out what he thinks China is up to with its central bank digital currency plans and asks if it is part of a wider plan to challenge US Big Tech and to take the yuan...
Gary McFarlane, cryptocurrency analyst at interactive investor, interviews crypto entrepreneur and investor and ShapeShift founder/CEO Erik Voorhees. Turns out he’s a skeptic when it comes to Libra but thinks something will get out the door, is disappointed by bitcoin maximalism myopia, bullish on BTC price and laser-focused on fixing self-custody...
Interview with Alex Karasulu, chief executive and founder of OptDyn, the company behind the Subutai Blockchain Router and Subutai PeerOS Alex has a 25-year background in the open source software community and is renowned for his original authorship of the Apache Directory Server, used by IBM for its Rational Directory...
In the first part of a three-part in-depth interview with top New York corporate attorney Felix Shipkevich, interactive investor cryptocurrency analyst Gary McFarlane finds out what he thinks about the stablecoins being developed by JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and of course Facebook, and the issues they throw, such as compatibility...
In the second part of a major interview with top New York derivatives attorney Felix Shipkevich, Gary McFarlane discusses with him how he sees blockchain adoption developing and some of the obstacles still to be overcome. You can read the first part of this interview in which Felix addresses issues...
