Success doesn't always look like token value, the venture playbook is being rewritten.
@SpartanBlack_1 (Spartan Group), @santiagoroel (Inversion), @rajivpoc (Framework Ventures) take the MEXC Stage with @lawmaster (The Block).
Wed 7 Oct · 3:30 PM · MEXC Stage
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You don’t fully grasp how much of your life is tracked until you’re sitting in a courtroom, watching federal prosecutors use your digital history against you, down to your most harmless Google searches. Your entire life becomes an open book, and even your most innocent actions can be twisted into something sinister.
They get to tell the most damning version of your story. To tell yours in your own words, you have to take the stand.
A few months later - a Quantum Safe Bitcoin tx on mainnet: https://t.co/qbrXRYXTd6
Thanks to StarkWare's @giladi_tom85141 taking this to the finish line and @MARAFoundation_ Slipstream mining this non-standard tx
Also @robin_linus & @Ethan_Heilman on previous work led to QSB
@danrobinson Because businesses think about how to accomplish the same task for the least amount of money. Fable is far too expensive. If Luna is 50x cheaper than Fable (it actually is) per each task and is completely usable, why use Fable? You would only use it when you need top intelligence
Larry Cermak (@lawmaster) returns to TOKEN2049 Singapore.
President of @TheBlockCo, recently promoted from CEO to focus on research and product. Few outlets have shaped how this industry reads its own news cycle as much as his.
Tickets: https://t.co/7PuZy9SBX4
EXCLUSIVE: Inside Tether’s KPMG Audit: Gold Bars, Bitcoin, and $6B in Excess Equity
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino joins The Starting Block to unpack details of their KPMG US audit.
Ardoino explains how Tether finally cleared the biggest hurdle in the room with a Big Four audit from KPMG US, why the timing mattered, and what the new yearly audit plus quarterly attestations mean for the company and the industry.
Timestamps
00:00 - Paolo Ardoino joins to discuss Tether’s Big Four audit announcement
01:16 - Why the audit took years and what made it possible now
03:31 - Why Tether chose KPMG US after earlier controversy around attestations
04:58 - Yearly audits and quarterly attestations as a transparency standard
05:15 - Responding to critics who still question Tether’s transparency
06:36 - The 7 billion redemption stress test in 2022
07:57 - Why auditors counted gold bars in Tether’s reserves
08:40 - Tether’s gold and Bitcoin reserve holdings
09:23 - The private fundraising narrative and why Tether says it does not need capital
12:31 - Tether’s AI effort, Qvac, and the mission to serve the unbanked
14:59 - Supporting Bitcoin security work after the Coldcard exploit
16:52 - Confirming annual audits and quarterly attestations going forward
[THE BLOCK EXCLUSIVE]
CZ. Live. Unfiltered.
Binance founder @cz_binance joins The Starting Block for an unscripted conversation.
June 29. 8AM ET / 2PM CET
Stream link: https://t.co/r5Bep2EwSH
1) Almost a year ago I stepped back from crypto to focus on multiple personal projects. I traveled, I read, I reflected and I built. Today I am announcing the main one: @TVLCap, which I am proud to have co-founded, and a $5M raise to bring structured products onchain.
@0xMerp That's me. idk sometimes feels like wasted potential but also sometimes feels nice not doing the one thing everyone asks about. Makes you very memorable as well as the 7ft bum who didn't make it to the league and instead doing crypto