Originally written by Timothy Adler on Growth Business

Andrew Scott, founding partner of 7percent Ventures, started investing in early stage companies because of his frustration at the timidity of European VCs when he was a founder himself. Too often, he says, British founders downplay their vision to appease investors

Australia’s largest bank is about to start selling crypto. Did you ever think you’d see the day?

Perhaps I underestimate Australia. Don’t get me wrong: it’s a pretty great country, all things considered. But you couldn’t accuse us of brimming

Press Release: Sportsbet.io launches first-ever ‘Crypto Fan Fund’, donating 2 BTC to its Premier League partner Southampton FC.   10th November 2021, London, UK  – Sportsbet.io has today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind ‘Crypto Fan Fund’, donating 2 Bitcoin (BTC) to its partner club Southampton FC. The fund will be used to deliver a […]

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Your guide to the three most common crypto scams

It’s Scams Awareness Week and CoinJar is an official partner. Today we’re looking at the most common crypto scams – investment schemes, romance scams and rug pulls.

Investment schemes

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A quick introduction to the who, what and how of crypto scams.

Cryptocurrency scams are big business. Already this year more than 7200 people have reported being scammed out of their crypto with combined losses in excess of $115 million.

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Recently, both Australia and New Zealand have reached ‘agreement in principle’ on proposed free trade agreements (FTAs) with the UK.  Details of the Australia-UK agreement in principle can be found on the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) website, while the NZ-UK agreement in principle is available from the NZ Foreign Affairs and Trade website.  Each document states that Australia/NZ will make all reasonable efforts to join the UK as members of the Hague Agreement, which provides an international registration system for industrial designs.  An article which appeared on the Lexology site last month stated that these developments imply that ‘Australia has (finally!) agreed to join the Hague Agreement on Industrial Designs’.

This is not true.  I do not see Australia joining the Hague Agreement in the foreseeable future, Australia-UK FTA notwithstanding.  I am less familiar with the political position in New Zealand, but suspect that the situation is not much different in the Land of the Long White Cloud.

Here is a fun fact…  Article 17.1(5) of the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), which entered into force on 1 January 2005, states that:

Each Party shall make its best efforts to comply with the provisions of the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (1999), and the Patent Law Treaty (2000), subject to the enactment of laws necessary to apply those provisions in its territory.

Yet here we are, nearly 17 years later, and Australia is still not a member of the Hague Agreement.  It would seem that the phrase ‘best efforts’ in a trade agreement basically amounts to nothing more than a promise to think about it over an unspecified – and potentially indefinite – time frame.  I suspect, therefore, that an undertaking to make ‘reasonable efforts’ in an agreement in principle is code for ‘they want us to do it; we have no plans to commit to doing it; but we do not want to hold up negotiations by actually saying no.’

And there are very good reasons – namely three separate processes of review and consultation since 2012 – for believing that Australia has no intention of joining the Hague Agreement any time soon.