Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: People, Culture and Tech
Just as Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project is facing defections from its biggest and most important partners, a recording of Mark Zuckerberg was “leaked” where he said all the right things. Coincidence?
Facebook has signed up a who’s who of tech and financial powerhouses to back its forthcoming stablecoin, including Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, and Uber, the Wall Street Journal reported on June 13.
Square, a company best known for its popular point-of-sale and payment processing suite, announced on Monday that it would be expanding Bitcoin services offered in its Cash app. Thus the No. 1 finance app in the iOS App Store will allow users to buy and sell the cryptocurrency in all 50 U.S. states. This is huge news for the crypto world as it represents a sort of mainstream acceptance after the blow it was dealt in January when Stripe announced it would no longer support Bitcoin payments. To be clear, there is a distinction between the types of services Stripe offered and those that Cash will offer vis-à-vis Bitcoin. Stripe’s…
At Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen last week, the state of women in tech was at the front of everybody’s minds. With 245 tweets or retweets mentioning women over the course of the conference, the topic comprised a full 10 percent of the Twitter conversation about the conference: File under: It can be done. Just under half of all mainstage speakers at #FortuneTech were women. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) July 18, 2018 That dynamic set the stage for the conference’s premiere crypto panel. “Making Money Move” featured two female panelists and female moderator Jen Wieczner—a clear indication of the industry’s dedication to break away from its reputation of being…
