VICE
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week
10 min · · Bitcoin’s surge in price has sent its electricity consumption soaring. · Shared by 753, including Philipp.Herkelmann, Alex Barrera, tjalve, Nils Hitze, Thomas Power, John Battelle, Ryan Boren, Richard Joerges, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, MariadPDC, Dez S. Papp, Dominik Grolimund, Nicolas Berg, Paulmears, Massimiliano Aroffo, Azeem Azhar, Taylor Pearson, Balthasar Glättli🌻 🕊, Ward Plunet, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊
WIRED
Facebook’s Libra Reveals Silicon Valley’s Naked Ambition
4 min · · Cloaked in the guise of making the world a better place, the cryptocurrency project is really another attempt to go big or go home. · Shared by 215, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Charles Baldwin, Martina Grolimund, Claudia Sommer, Backchannel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Alain, Gabriele, Thomas Power, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Yvette Dubel, Ralph Hutter, Dominik Grolimund, Oleg Baskov, Thomas Billeter
Forbes
How Blockchain Is Changing Digital Marketing
3 min · · Blockchain is starting to have a bigger impact on digital marketing driving transparency and digital control back to users. Exploring the trend and what it means to marketers. · Shared by 158, including Daniel Newman, Hugo Carvalho, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy, Thomas Power, Thomas Billeter, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gail Gardner, Shelly Kramer, Remy Bataille
Forbes
The Worlds Of AI And Blockchain Are Colliding
3 min · · As more people become aware of how valuable their information is to companies, and how easily it can be used and sold, people are beginning to wonder just how easily they should give over their… · Shared by 154, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Ines Bieler, Nicolas Babin, Yves Mulkers, Ronald van Loon, Lord Travis Wright, Shelly Kramer, Gerrit Eicker, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Bertrand Maltaverne, Thomas Billeter, Damir Kusar, Francesco Corea, Daniel Newman, Kathleen Walch, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, William Toll, Ian M Calvert, Thomas Power
WIRED
What's Blockchain Actually Good for, Anyway? For Now, Not Much
3 min · · Not long ago, blockchain technology was touted as a way to track tuna, bypass banks, and preserve property records. Reality has proved a much tougher challenge. · Shared by 147, including Terence Mills, Andreas Staub, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Thomas Billeter, Matthew Bishop, Backchannel, Sebastien Meunier, Matthias Lampe, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA
The New York Times
How Libra Would Work for You
4 min · · We break down the new Facebook-backed cryptocurrency and what the company hopes you will be able to do with it, even though it hasn’t quite arrived. · Shared by 121, including Matt Navarra, Carl Morris, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Thomas Power, Thomas Billeter
bbvaopenmind.com
Ten Trends of Blockchain in 2020
6 min · · Blockchain in 2020 will revolutionize operations and processes in many industries and governments agencies and will stimulate people to acquire new skills. · Shared by 112, including ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Thomas Billeter, Oliver Ewinger, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ines Bieler
Harvard Business Review
Will We Realize Blockchain’s Promise of Decentralization?
4 min · · Decentralized governance comes at a cost. · Shared by 100, including Chris Gledhill, Thomas Billeter, Gerrit Eicker, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Remy Bataille, Bill Johnston, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Tamara Dull, Kirk Borne
MIT Technology Review
The US government has a hidden weapon it could deploy against Bitcoin
2 min · · Here's how the US government could try to undermine Bitcoin · Shared by 96, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Neeraj K Agrawal, Matthias Lampe, Thomas Billeter, Vikram Dutt, Thomas Power
a16z
Crypto Fund II
5 min · · We’re excited to announce a new $515 million fund that will be used to invest in crypto entrepreneurs, networks and businesses. · Shared by 92, including علي, Thomas Power, Marc P. Bernegger, Jonathan Kogan, Thomas Billeter, Meltem Demirors, 瑞拿頭
Coinbase 🛡️
The 2019 Leaders in Crypto Education
14+ min · · The second annual Coinbase Report on Higher Education · Shared by 92, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Yvette Dubel, Thomas Power, Tuur Demeester, Thomas Billeter, 瑞拿頭, Eric Elliott, Jonathan Kogan, DEALS🏃♂️🏃♀️, Emin Gün Sirer🔺
Coinbase 🛡️
What will happen to cryptocurrency in the 2020s
7 min · · Yesterday I recapped the last decade in crypto. Today, let’s look ahead to the future and what I think will happen in the 2020s. Of course… · Shared by 91, including Brian Armstrong 🛡️, Leo Polovets, Jakub Ferenc, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Remo Uherek, Thomas Billeter, Version One Ventures, jorge-ferrer, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
World Economic Forum
Blockchain is not a magic bullet for security. Can we trust it?
4 min · · Blockchain's ability to circumvent trust issues with intermediaries has been praised. But it still rests on technology with underlying vulnerabilities. · Shared by 60, including Marc R Gagné MAPP, Gerrit Eicker, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Andreas Staub, Chris Isak, Thomas Billeter, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Glen Gilmore #MWC23
WIRED
The Serious Money Is Warming to Bitcoin
3 min · · Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is buying the "custody" business of rival Xapo, in a bid to attract big investors such as hedge funds and mutual funds. · Shared by 57, including Thomas Billeter, Thomas Power, Backchannel, Jonathan Kogan, Diogo Mónica, Ste Davies, Gerrit Eicker
VentureBeat
Blockchain is finally becoming the next-gen database of choice
3 min · · Key things we want from a database -- disaster recovery, security, availability, and automation -- are all baked into blockchain. · Shared by 55, including Jonathan Kogan, Gerrit Eicker, Thomas Billeter
Cointelegraph
World Economic Forum Looks to Blockchain to Restart Global Economy
2 min · · The World Economic Forum believes DLT supply chain solutions can help reboot the global economy, launching a blockchain deployment kit · Shared by 51, including 🔥 Sir Lord Joel Comm 👑, Oliver Bussmann, Thomas Billeter, LARRY ELKAN