Although nearly 40% cryptocurrencies face an uphill struggle against distrust to be crowned as its anointed successor.
The actual two pizza pies bought for BTC 10,000 by Laszlo Hanyecz in the first known bitcoin purchase
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Block.one's Brendan Blumer is betting $150 million Voice can shout down social media's fake news (Photo: Wikipedia).Block.one: With $150 million Voice can shout down Facebook
After incubating Voice for nine months, Block.one injected $150 million into the social news platform that’s aiming to tackle the rise of fake news
Now independently operated, Voice is being billed as a “social news platform that rewards users and content creators,” and has the rather ambitious goal of tackling deficiencies in the media industry—namely the proliferation of fake news and concerns over data ownership.
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KPMG: Fintech boom but blockchain bust in 2019
Despite 30% fewer deals than 2018, the auditing and advisory firm predicts blockchain will ‘remain robust well into 2020’
Despite an overall blockbuster year for Fintech, there was a blockchain bust, with investment falling substantially in 2019, according to KPMG. Global private investment in blockchain and cryptocurrency dropped from $6.3 billion in 2018 to $4.7 billion last year.
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The Modern Consensus 100 Most Influential People in Crypto 2020
The individuals moving, shaking, and shaping cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology right now
Coming up with a list of the 100 most influential people in crypto and blockchain is hard in any year. But doing it in 2020 is particularly rough. That’s because the industry didn’t just advance last year, it went mainstream. And that makes “influence” a lot harder to define.
