It goes without saying that bears weren’t kind to the crypto industry in 2018. The aggregate value of all cryptocurrencies fell like a “falling knife,” as retail investors pulled out of this market en-masse and hype dissipated. Yet, even amid this devastating downturn, which beat this market to hell and…
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In a session of the AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) on Reddit, the director and co-founder of Circle, Jeremy Allaire, declared that he expects Crypto to have a greater impact on humanity than the invention of the Internet. Circle is a famous Fintech startup supported by Goldman Sachs that became popular…
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You better be happy. Or at least look like it. If you just signed up or you’re already in companies like Facebook, the best thing you can do, if you do not want to lose your job, is to show a satisfactory image in front of your bosses. Otherwise, you…
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Repentance in the purchase can reduce the ecommerce companies between 2% and 4% of their turnover Some e-commerce companies like Amazon are starting to penalize customers who return more products than they buy, who abuse the generous return service. These recidivists are closely monitored and, if they are found to…
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Until 2016, I ran an advertising agency in London. At our peak, we were highly successful; I had a team of 35 people, a £3m turnover and a Covent Garden office. When the agency folded, I decided to invest in bitcoin. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a type of electronic cash…
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Bakkt, a cryptographic asset platform backed by the ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) which also owns the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has raised its first round of financing led by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. They managed to raise $ 182.5 million as their Series A financing round of experienced investors,…
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The team behind Samourai, the privacy-focused bitcoin wallet, has removed a series of key security-related features from a version of its app as a result of “extremely restrictive policies” by Google. Having released version 0.99.04 of its app Tuesday on the digital distribution service run by Google, called Google Play,…
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Bitcoin (BTC) earned its digital gold comparison due to a number of factors, but none more-so than its pre-programmed scarcity. There can only ever be a fixed supply of 21,000,000 BTC, as was designed by Satoshi Nakamoto in order to give Bitcoin its deflationary aspect. That fixed supply also provides…
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The number of German founders has fallen almost every year since 2001 TV formats such as “The Cave of the Lions” on VOX give you the feeling that everyone in Germany is starting a startup and employees are now rather boring and exotic. But if you look at the facts,…
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Founders and start-ups were able to score more heavily in financial terms in 2018. Overall, start-ups in Germany were able to collect the record amount of almost 4.6 billion euros last year, 7 percent more than in the previous year. The number of investments reached a new high and grew…
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