When I first started this blog, I had a grandiose vision of creating a one-stop resource for understanding everything going on with the modern economy and how it was affecting young people. “Democratized finance” is what I called the subject, and tackling every aspect of it—from cryptocurrencies to Robinhood—was the plan. That was a dumb plan. Like, really bad.
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase has objections to Apple App Store restrictions, too
It would be an understatement to say that big companies have had issues with Apple’s App Store policies lately. The latest is Brain Armstrong, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase…
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Singapore-based banks see post-pandemic Bitcoin adoption as more than just speculation
Why buy Bitcoin if not to simply speculate on its near-decade track record of wild upward volatility? That’s the question many peripherally interested in Bitcoin ask, and it’s always interesting when large financial organizations not entrenched in the crypto sphere chime in on the issue. Singapore-based banks DBS and Sygnum have touched on it some in recent reports…
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Square forms ‘Crypto Open Patent Alliance’ to stifle patent abuse, but does crypto have bigger challenges?
Square and its CEO Jack Dorsey announced the organization of the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) today. The company says it is putting all of its cryptocurrency-related patents into the non-profit org to be shared among its members — all in an effort to stifle abusive, offensive, or trollish behavior surrounding crypto-related patents.
Digital Currency Group buys up Luno crypto exchange
Digital Currency Group owns, well, a group of currency products — be that CoinDesk (the popular crypto blog), the Genesis brokerage, digital asset manager Grayscale, or, most recently, the Foundry crypto mining advisory group. Now, the company has added another currency product to the group: Luno. It’s a growing cryptocurrency exchange aimed at retail investors.
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