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Crypto

·Oct. 12, 2020

The Harvard Endowment and alternative assets, Square buys $50MM of Bitcoin, Killer Mike launching a Bank and Akon building a $6B smart city

In this conversation, Will and I break down a few important pieces of recent news. MetaMask, the crypto wallet, hit 1 million month active users in yet another sign of the acceleration of retail adoption.

Square’s market cap is now equal to that of American Express, and the former also announced it has purchased $50 million of Bitcoin with its balance sheet. What do these pieces of news mean?

Greenwood Financial launched, a neobank led by Andrew J. Young, a civil rights legend, Killer Mike, a rapper and activist, and Ryan Glover, founder of Bounce TV network. How much scope is there for financial services for affinity groups instead of traditional geographical or product coverage areas?

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Crypto

·Apr. 11, 2022

AllianceBlock Fundrs uses multi-dimension approach to serve startups

AllianceBlock Fundrs aims to take the best elements from venture capital, blockchain, and social media and combine them to create a more effective, 21st-century model to fund promising startups.

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Crypto

·Jun. 23, 2023

Real-world asset tokens – a ‘killer use case’ for blockchain

Real-world asset tokenization was set to be a multi-trillion dollar market by 2030. It's still on track despite FTX setbacks.

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Fintech

·Sep. 8, 2022

Unstoppable Domains improves Web3 accessability

With accessibility long being a barrier for most mere mortals to enter Web3, Unstoppable Domains has launched an app to break it down.

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Fintech

·Sep. 30, 2022

Regaining trust in DeFi: Could trade surveillance be key?

Trust in DeFi has suffered multiple knocks over the years. Trade surveillance could be the key to building it back up.

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Crypto

·Sep. 19, 2022

Milo’s under-collateralized mortgage and refinancing launches amid winter storm

Despite the ongoing decline in the crypto markets, Milo has released new lending options for digital natives.

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Fintech

·Aug. 12, 2022

PoW vs PoS and why you should care

As the crypto world stands on the precipice of ethereum's merge, we question, what are these "consensus mechanisms" and why does this shift even matter?

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Crypto

·Sep. 26, 2022

How crypto measures up to the ESG agenda

Despite coverage highlighting the environmental issues of certain cryptocurrencies, the crypto sector may be unexpectedly ESG aligned.

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·Jan. 4, 2021

What do Bitcoin, Ethereum, GDP, unemployment, and Covid have in common in 2021?

This week, we look at:

The spectacular price increase in crypto assets, hitting new records for Bitcoin, as well as the comparable statistical situation around Covid cases
An explanation of the $1.5 trilion income effect in 2020, and how it has led to both capital acumulation and inequity (thanks NY Times!)
A discussion of all-time-highs and all-time-lows, why we need them, and their connections to the macro-economy, computer code, music, and the universe itself

One wonderful takeaway from Watts, which of course is not his, but beautifully plagiarized into the English language, is the duality of experience. The need for polar opposites, in a clock-like cycle. To have black, you must have white. To have the top of the wave, you need the bottom of the wave. To have a melody, you need equally the presence of the notes, and their absence in silence. To breathe in, you need to breath out. It is meaningless to have a data point without the context in which it exists.

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