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I run a free private group of 400+ crypto, payments, and fintech founders where members help each other navigate regulatory structures and close deals. It’s called Titans of Fintech. I run another such group with 50+ blockchain developers that are vetted by 2 CS PhDs who read through people’s open source code to vet everyone. […]
Kumar ThanguduEdit: Banking industry folks are firing shots at BTC for its electricity consumption costs. I think these people are the last people who should ever criticize bitcoin for its electricity costs. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/dutch-bank-suggests-bitcoin-mining-consumes-much-electricity/ 24 BN of gold takes a lot of energy/time to move. https://amp.ft.com/content/f08e7e00-3602-36a3-ab78-be34d66cb6e7 … Banks use a ton of paper: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/banks-use-more-paper-despite-e-statements-popularity […]
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I’ve had death and blockchains on my mind a lot lately. I don’t have a solution to this problem, I’m just curious and opening a can of questions. My main curiosity has stemmed from talking to people who own a large quantity of cryptocurrency. It’s kind of morbid, but I ask them what would happen […]
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Originally answered this question on quora.* This is a repost. TLDR: Short Term Most ICOs are poorly structured just like most startups. Power law will occur. Medium Term Humanity doesn’t know how regulatory bodies will adapt. Blockchains have a bloat and real-world interfacing issue, not with transaction sizes or speed, but with properly tracking death […]
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In operations research, one of my specialty areas was graph-node attacks on polymer supply chains. This exercise consistently requires a decent level of math, thinking at the gigascale, lots of situational context, and plenty of simulation. Cryptocurrency is out of my realm/I can’t read the source code….so I’m quite a bit out of my element…. […]
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I asked my security friend Noah Ruderman the following question: What do you think of BlackBytes and ZEC? — — — — — — — — — — — — — —Noah: currently the only cryptocurrencies that are worth taking seriously for privacy use either the zerocoin protocol, the cryptonote protocol, and the zcash protocol. the future […]
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tldr: Clean coal isn’t necessarily something we can do at scale that will solve problems on any reasonable time-scale. Source: https://www.worldcoal.org/sites/default/files/styles/basic_page_header/public/shutterstock_133998776.jpg?itok=DbbVckc6 Humanity can’t grow a several trillion dollar carbon sequestration industry over night, a few years, or even a single decade. Clean coal is unreasonable on any relevant time scale with current technologies. I did […]
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This will change everything about telecom data. This is a domino effect and chain reaction to follow. I’m staying up late tonight because I’m seeing something interesting. It’s worth mentioning I’m from India, a country with 300M-400M people who don’t have electricity at night and only 17% mobile penetration. To say I care about […]
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I spend every day and all day working in fintech and infrastructure web tech that shifts archaic industries. I’m a lucky one. I get to learn from people who were previously on wall street and sometimes help market to them too. I run a fintech group on facebook with 200+ fintech founders w/ billions in […]
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