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For $15K, He'll Fake Your Exchange Volume – You'll Get on CoinMarketCap
A 20-year-old college student explains how he made a business of faking trade volumes at crypto exchanges.
An (Entrepreneurial) Investor’s Take on the Utility of Tokens beyond Payment
Evaluating Long-Term, Non-Speculative Value
Revealed: Amazon employees are left to suffer after workplace injuries
Amazon made its CEO the wealthiest person in the world. So why can’t the company care for those injured while working there?
Smart Money Said ‘Skip Bitcoin, Bet on Blockchain.’ Not Any More
As cryptocurrency prices tumbled across the board last year, venture capitalists focused their attention on the promise of the underlying technology, the ledger known as blockchain. That, many said, was the smarter bet.
Blockstack Token Offering Update and Common Questions
Since the SEC qualification of our token offering on July 10th, a lot has been happening. The Wall Street Journal,
The Racist History of Tipping
Employers pay tipped workers $2.13 an hour. Why? Reconstruction-era racial discrimination.
11 Lessons From Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson has been investing in tech companies since the late 1980s. We take a look at some of his most important lessons on product, management, and investing.
QR is King
Mobile payments are quickly rendering cash obsolete in China.
Lawmakers Amp Up Pressure on Facebook to Halt Libra Cryptocurrency Development
U.S. lawmakers repeatedly pressed Facebook's top blockchain exec to halt development of the Libra cryptocurrency in Tuesday's hearing.
Road to Consensus | Crypto Comes to Trump’s D.C.
Crypto became a matter of global policy last week when The Tweet dropped. What are the implications for crypto and Libra now that Donald Trump has raised the conversation about cryptocurrencies and blockchains to the United States’ highest...
Hong Kong’s entrepreneurial protesters are crowdfunding everything from doctors to legal fees
They've pooled millions of Hong Kong dollars and a broad range of expertise to support the movement.
The future of Substack
A few weeks ago, we hosted a discussion thread in which we asked writers what features they’d like to see in Substack. We got hundreds of responses, asking for everything from image captions to a mobile app. We were energized by the discussion, and...
Facebook's Libra Should Be Regulated Like a Security, Says Former CFTC Chair
Former CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler believes Facebook's Libra looks – and should be regulated like – a security.
What we can learn from the revolutionary passport that helped 1920’s refugees
History shows receiving countries have to see something in it for them.
Traceability and convenience factors drive frozen crustaceans market
Global demand for frozen crustaceans has increased significantly in recent years and the trend is expected to continue, according to a recent report.
How to be a journalist (at least according to me) - Rosie Spinks
Every so often I get an email from someone asking me how to be a journalist. Over the years I’ve responded to these emails with varying…
TikTok Stars Are Preparing to Take Over the Internet
A new wave of online creators is here.
Blockstack’s token offering is historic, but its dance with the SEC is far from over
Blockstack has become the first crypto startup to get the SEC’s blessing for a public sale of digital tokens. And now things get interesting.