Greetings from Gibraltar, the next leg of my travels which seem to have become more and more focused on the legislative frameworks being created to embrace the range of frontier technologies which have all been given an accelerant in the form of the pandemic.
The nature of blockchain-based tech is that it is fundamentally borderless and the people who are involved, from the ground up, have completely transferable skills. With these two points in mind what can nation states do to attract companies to locate within their jurisdictions and then – just as importantly – keep them there?
In the three years I have been sharing my acquired knowledge with the City AM / Crypto AM readership, I have witnessed first hand the UK squander the sizable advantages she had. The dithering and woeful lack of clarity has led to a potentially irreversible exodus of the digital nomads and the projects they are working on. I truly believe that this can be turned around but it requires urgent action with a cohesive strategy. To that end I am looking at the creation of the Crypto…