How fintech startups are using big data to solve China’s huge credit gap
October 02, 2017. It was almost Angel Zhang’s 22nd birthday. She wanted to do something special, spend a little extra on herself. But instead of asking her parents for more money – they give her a US$300 monthly stipend – she used Huabei, a virtual...
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Bitcoin And The End Of Money – TechCrunch
April 07, 2013. A commentator on Bloomberg, Princeton student Evan Soltas, writes that Bitcoin is an “existential threat to the modern liberal state,” a line that can be read in two ways. One reading of his op-ed suggests we are all in danger and that...
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Why Blockchain Creates A New ‘Architecture of Trust’
June 16, 2017. Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach talks about the transformative potential of the blockchain, the underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies such as the bitcoin. While the adoption of cyber-currencies is running into headwinds, the blockchain is finding more practical use...
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a16z Podcast: Cryptonetworks and Decentralization—Building Blocks
July 31, 2018. At the end of the day, observes a16z crypto general partner Chris Dixon, Satoshi’s whitepaper [the original bitcoin paper outlining a peer-to-peer decentralized network and blockchain sans centralized third parties] is nine pages of incentives. It’s the kind of incentive...
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Elad Blog: Bitcoin Network Effects
December 11, 2017. Bitcoin Network Effects One force people underestimate are network effects. Network effects allowed Twitter survive its fail-whale period when the site was constantly down. Facebook destroyed international competition, and Airbnb and Microsoft all succeeded due to network effects. Open source examples like...
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