Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) second crypto fund shows the venture capital firm is targeting specific areas to invest in the cryptocurrency space… https://www.coindesk.com/andreessen-horowitz-doubles-down-on-crypto-investments-with-new-515m-fund
FinTech as an Essential Service In these times of unprecedented pandemic led economic uncertainty, there is a sector almost as vital as the healthcare system, which is “silently” sustaining the global quarantined economy, FinTech. As people and companies progressively shut
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With companies closing, unemployment rising and investors spooked in the age of the pandemic… https://www.coindesk.com/starting-a-bitcoin-startup-during-the-covid-19-crisis-feat-yan-pritzker
The “Great Lockdown” is redrawing the bitcoin mining landscape as the economic crisis makes smaller operations less profitable and access to China’s hardware supply chains crucial… https://www.coindesk.com/in-canada-theyre-essential-in-argentina-theyre-shut-down-bitcoin-miners-reckon-with-covid-19
Financial technology can spur financial inclusion by facilitating payments, but the opportunities come with challenges… https://www.bis.org/press/p200414.htm
A structured representation of the data, identifying all the business concepts and their relations, as well as validation rules… https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/tools-and-data/supervisory-reporting-dpm-and-xbrl_en
Reddit is experimenting with recording points and perks on a blockchain… https://www.coindesk.com/reddit-may-use-ethereum-for-a-new-token-based-points-system
The digital assets lending field seems to be heating up with Blockchain.com starting to offer lending directly to retail consumers globall… https://news.bitcoin.com/blockchain-com-borrow/
As the third Bitcoin halvening approaches, a handful of OGs will wistfully recall the first such event, which occurred in November 2012… https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-history-part-24/
In the last six months I had to professionally deal with (and reject) a couple of cases. Potential customers wanted to build cryptocurrency-like systems disconnected from a least compliance with the regulatory reality. The belief that Internet can legitimize any
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