by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Instead of ignoring blockchain, financial organizations are scrambling to leverage it for their own benefit. I’ve talked about how it’s currently a horse race amongst some of the biggest banks on the planet, and today was no exception. We learned of their latest...
by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Billionaire Mike Novogratz echoed what I have often said: institutional investors are lining up to get into crypto in 2019. “There’s going to be a case of institutional FOMO [fear of missing out], just like there was in retail,” he said. “Bitcoin has to take out...
by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
While history repeating is never guaranteed, it is certainly something to pay attention to. Of course, as we’ve found throughout this year, a slow market does not mean a slow news cycle. Most notably, we saw the 10 year anniversary of Bitcoin’s whitepaper. It’s a...
by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Iterative improvements, partnerships, and the occasional breakthrough. It’s the modus operandi of a growing industry. Each time I attend these crypto conferences, I’m reminded of how special this space really is. You can get hundreds of people in a room who are all...
by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
10 years ago Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper, and we have a lot to celebrate. Immortalized in the text, we can see what Satoshi’s vision was, and ultimately how it led to 10 years of continued progress: “What is needed is an electronic payment...
by Charles Severson | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Often we see the qualms the traditional finance raised against the new age of money. Former U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen argued against Bitcoin. “It has long been thought that for something to be a useful currency, it needs to be a stable source of value,...