All Mathletes pay attention.
Bitcoin now shows up in Excel. Another massive step reached in the adoption curve.
Someone get the Excel icon some laser eyes
SEC commissioner @HesterPeirce, "We were past that point of banning #Bitcoin in the U.S. very early on, because you’d have to shut down the internet,"
"I don’t see how you could ban it."
0/ The @coinbase team announced 1Q21 data including revenue of ~$1.8B, adj EBITDA of $1.1B, NI of $730-$800M, trading volume of $335B & assets on the platform of $223B (11.3% of cryptoasset market) with 56M users
Run-rate of $7.2B in revenue / $4.4B in EBITDA / $3.0B of NI.
Vaccine Passport - Deep Dive 🚨
There’s a lot of talk about the morality of C-19 vaccine passports
I want to focus on the issue of whether they make sense from a public health perspective
Not only don’t they make sense, they’re actually counterproductive
Here’s why
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Powell and Yellen are dismissive of cryptos/DeFi. Dalio thinks it could be banned. Singer/Buffett think it's dangerous.
I fear all of this could lead to the US "sitting this out" as the rest of the world designs a new financial system. This would be a huge mistake ...
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Count me in as a crypto law proposal supporter.
It is increasingly being used for transactions and is beginning to go mainstream as an investment. (Fidelity, etc. trying to get Bitcoin ETF).
Texas should lead on this like we did with a gold depository. https://t.co/1z25mtgnmu
By their nature, cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi) are decentralized and permissionless. We are not sure how they would be ‘outlawed’, as Dalio describes in this story.
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https://t.co/jHSt6XvlUF