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Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Cryptocurrency Traders to the IRS
The exchange lost a legal battle and now Bitcoin’s tax problem is coming to a head. (2017)
Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts
A blog about Innovation and Technology by Gjermund Bjaanes “You might have heard the term “smart contract,” and you might even know that they ar... (2017)
We already know blockchain’s killer apps – Hacker Noon
It wasn’t too long ago that Silicon Valley scoffed at cryptocurrencies. All over coffee shops in Mountain View and Menlo Park, you heard the same c... (2017)
Initial Coin Offerings Horrify a Former S.E.C. Regulator - The New York Times
Joseph Grundfest, now a law professor, called funding efforts using virtual currency the most “notorious violation of federal securities laws since... (2017)
Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than 159 Countries
According to Digiconomist's Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, as of Monday November 20th, 2017 Bitcoin's current estimated annual electricity consu... (2017)
Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange - NYTimes.com
New York Times, “On some days, Bitfinex claims to be doing more trades than some stock exchanges. But it has lost millions in two hackings and has... (2017)
Bitcoin surges in Zimbabwe after military seize power
2017: "Bitcoin climbed as much as 10% on Zimbabwe’s Golix exchange on Wednesday after the country’s armed forces seized power. The price of th... (2017)
Bitcoin briefly jumps more than 11% after news Square is testing the digital currency
The digital currency briefly surges to within 10 percent of its record high hit last Wednesday. (2017)
A London startup is launching a debit card that lets you spend bitcoin
2017: "A London-startup headed by a Credit Suisse veteran is launching a new debit card that it claims will allow people to spend cryptocurrencies... (2017)
Bitcoin Futures Could Open the Floodgates for Institutional Investors
Bloomberg, 2017: “Bitcoin is spiking to a record after CME Group Inc. said it’s planning to launch bitcoin futures as the move could open the floo... (2017)
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System annotated/ explained version.
Fermat’s Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers. Here, they review Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System annotated/explai... (2017)
How to Develop White Paper for ICO: Do’s and Don’ts
Cointelegraph looks into the best practices of developing the White Paper, the document prepared by a party in anticipation of launching a new curr... (2017)
Ethereum white paper (original)
wiki - The Ethereum Wiki - The intent of Ethereum is to create an alternative protocol for building decentralized applications, providing a diff... (2017)
European financial watchdog latest to warn over ICOs
TechCrunch, 2017: “European Union financial regulator, the ESMA, has become the latest regulatory body to issue a warning about the risks of buyin... (2017)
Bitcoin's Exorbitant Energy Costs May Prove to Be Biggest Risk
Bloomberg, 2017: “It may not matter whether bitcoin’s a bubble. The staggering energy costs associated with “mining” the digital currency could pr... (2017)
IRS Cracks Down on Coinbase Users -
2017: "With the quickly growing cryptocurrency industry, the IRS is demanding to see the records of thousands of Coinbase users. Cryptocurrency h... (2017)
Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks
Bloomberg, 2017: "It’s become commonplace in news headlines to say millennials kill everything from romance to napkins, but now a survey shows the... (2017)
Smart Money: How AI Could Make You a Better Investor
Wired, 2017: “Old habits die hard. But as the data we generate allows us to gain a deeper understanding of how we think and behave around money, n... (2017)
Do Bitcoin Markets have a Conversion Tort Problem?
In many jurisdictions, a buyer of stolen goods does not acquire their legal title. This principle, “nemo dat”, often applies regardless of whether ... (2017)
ICO initial coin offerings | The Economist
The Economist: "The market in Initial Coin Offerings risks becoming a bubble (2017)
Investing In ICOs May Be Even Riskier Than You Realize
Bloomberg, 2017: "Investing in the burgeoning world of initial coin offerings may be even riskier than it appears. SEC warned of possible regulat... (2017)
Evolving Economics of Bitcoin, Gold, Currencies
CME Group, 2017: "The value of a bitcoin has skyrocketed by a whopping 6,000,000% over seven years. But is the digital currency still undervalued... (2017)
MasterCard has finally realized that signatures are obsolete and stupid
Fast Company, 2017: "For years, credit card companies have relied on an illegible squiggly line as the frontline of defense against credit card fra... (2017)
Visa acquires Brazilian fintech startup Pismo in $1B blockbuster deal | TechCrunch
Credit card giant Visa is acquiring Brazilian payments infrastructure provider Pismo for $1 billion in cash. (2023)
Software power. How India is using digital technology to project power
Narendra Modi sees his country’s digital public infrastructure as an Indian Belt and Road Initiative | Asia Once known as the “India stack”, the... (2023)
The Opportunity for Healthcare x Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz
The healthcare system is broken—fintech offers solutions. How technology will make healthcare more intuitive, efficient, and cost-effective. Tho... (2023)
The fight over the future of global payments. Financial fragmentation
Digital payments have transformed domestic finance. Now competition is going global. A challenge to the West’s legacy system, including the Visa-Ma... (2023)
Digital Finance: As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance | Special Report
The fight over payments systems is hotting up around the world. There may be surprising winners, says Arjun Ramani | Special report For centurie... (2023)
Bill.com - International Payments: Send Payments from One Place | BILL
With BILL, you can send domestic and international payments, all from one place. Gain efficiency and accuracy with a streamlined process. Get start... (2023)
How much is 'link in bio' real estate worth? Linktree's new valuation says $1.3 billion | TechCrunch
Who would’ve thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in... (2022)
TED talk: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the co... (2017)
Visa Launches AI Agents for Shopping
Visa announced that it is allowing customers to use AI platforms to make purchases and is collaborating with Anthropic, Microsoft Corp, OpenAI and ... (2025)
The Open Source Movement in Fintech
Imagine that financial services could be built like Lego blocks — that developers could easily combine different pieces to discover hundreds of new... (2023)
How Robinhood Makes Money (Jan 2019)
Robinhood, an investing app valued at over $5 billion, says it's trying to "democratize America's financial system" by making investing accessible ... (2020)
How Robinhood Really Makes Money (Dec 2018)
Want to join our free STOCKHUB discord chat? Here is the link https://discord.gg/MkquuN7 After yesterdays video on the Robinhood app 3% savings acc... (2020)
Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan Discuss Brex's Corporate Card For Startups
Henrique Dubugras - https://twitter.com/hdubugras - is the cofounder of Brex - https://brex.com/ - which provides corporate cards for startups. Anu... (2018)
TED talk: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the co... (2018)
What gives a dollar bill its value? - Doug Levinson | TED-Ed
TED-Ed Published on Jun 23, 2014 The value of money is determined by how much (or how little) of it is in circulation. But who makes that dec... (2018)
The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services | a16z
a16z Published on Jan 21, 2018 Traditional banking services have fallen flat for an enormous segment of the population -- whether because they’... (2018)
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech | a16z
a16z, Published on Oct 25, 2017, Financial services startup, or fintech, are innovating across broad categories — in core banking, new financial s... (2017)
How Credit Card Processing Works - Transaction Cycle & 2 Pricing Models
How Credit Card Processing Works : http://www.bancardsales.com How Does Credit Card Processing Work This video explains how credit card payments ar... (2017)
A Brief History of Credit Cards (or What Happens When You Swipe) | a16z
a16z General Partner Alex Rampell helps solve the great mystery of what actually happens when you swipe your credit card?! He takes us from the beg... (2017)
Future of ICOs, Cryptocurrency & VC | This Week in Startups
This Week in Startups, E773: Future of ICOs, Cryptocurrency & VC with Brock Pierce (Blockchain Cap, Block.one) & Vinny Lingham (Civic) @ LAUNCH SCA... (2017)
Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)
Listen now (77 min) — Geoff Charles is VP of Product at Ramp—the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time. In today’s podcast, we will discuss:... (2023)
Offshore Finance - What the ‘Pandora Papers’ Mean for Bitcoin - CoinDesk Podcast
Listen to this episode from CoinDesk Podcast Network on Spotify. A new 2.94 terabyte data leak doxes tens of thousands of offshore accounts of prom... (2021)
The Federal Reserve is thinking about a digital dollar - Marketplace
Plus, what shoe sales are telling us about the economic recovery, President Joe Biden is asking federal agencies to gauge the financial risk of cli... (2021)
20VC Podcast: SPACs. What Are They? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape?
Listen to this episode from The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Spotify. Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder & Partner @ ... (2020)
16 Minutes on the News #7: Apple Card, BEC Scams Federal Indictment – Andreessen Horowitz
This is episode #7 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why ... (2019)
a16z Podcast: Fintech for Startups and Incumbents – Andreessen Horowitz
In this episode — which originally aired as a video on YouTube — a16z general partner Alex Rampell (and former fintech entrepreneur as the CEO and ... (2019)
a16z Podcast: All about Stablecoins – Andreessen Horowitz
The history, evolution, and use of money revolves around the important concept of debt: It's what allows us to "time travel" and build toward the f... (2018)
How Stripe's COO approaches company building
In this episode of Resources for Humans, Jack sits down with Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer, Claire Hughes Johnson, who spent over a decade at Go... (2018)
Bitcoin Losers: What if you lose your bitcoin key? | Planet Money | NPR
The bitcoin market has gone crazy. And it's revealing something strange. A lot of people can't find their bitcoins. We go looking for lost billions. (2018)
a16z Podcast: Market Shifts – Andreessen Horowitz
NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman runs one of the world’s largest financial services companies, including the NASDAQ stock exchange that’s home to more tha... (2017)
Ramp - Corporate Cards for Startups & New Businesses
Ramp's finance automation platform is a game-changer for startups with a corporate card solution. We provide more than your average business credit... (2023)
Pilot.co - Hire Anywhere | Global payroll, benefits & compliance - pay contractors and employees worldwide
Easily onboard and pay contractors and employees worldwide, in one platform. Pilot is your all-in-one payroll and HR solution for your global team.... (2023)
Splitwise - sharing expenses with anyone
Splitwise is a free tool for friends and roommates to track bills and other shared expenses, so that everyone gets paid back. On the web, iPhone, a... (2022)
Wren | Offset your carbon footprint
Wren helps you calculate and offset your personal carbon emissions through a monthly subscription. (2022)
Frontier - An advance market commitment (AMC) to accelerate carbon removal
Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy an initial $925M of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030. It’s funded by Stripe, Alpha... (2022)
Pilot.com - Bookkeeping and tax for startups and small businesses
Focus on your business, knowing that our expert bookkeepers, aided by software superpowers, are taking care of your books. (2021)
Crypto Trading 101 - full set of guides - CoinDesk
CoinDesk unpacks and explains Fibonacci retracements, a tool used to predict potential price support and resistance, for crypto traders. (2018)