Tag: DeFi
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Note: This is not investment advice. “Have fun being poor!” I’m pretty sure someone is going to say that in the comments. But to invest in Bitcoin, I need a reason. Let me run through why the possible reasons to own Bitcoin don’t hold up. A Store of Value —…
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How do angel investors pick investments? What’s the best way to invest in crypto? We dug into this and more at the Single Family Office Summit in New York last month. Here are some of my favorite moments: 8:11: How I pick investments 17:08: Clinton Buie of AmateMint Group on…
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Sequoia Capital is the greatest venture capital firm of all time. So how did it lose $214 million on FTX? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Sequoia made two large investments in the crypto exchange, which went bankrupt earlier this month. Sequoia has since marked down those investments to zero.…
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Let’s say I create $1 million worth of Frankcoin. Will you loan me $1 million with my Frankcoin as collateral? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Not if you’re in your right mind, you won’t. But that’s exactly what lenders did for Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research. From…
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Despite cratering crypto markets and a slowdown in venture funding, crypto VC’s are upping the ante. From a report out yesterday in Reuters: Even as the crypto sector shivers in the bleak winter, venture capitalists are pouring money into digital currency and blockchain startups at a pace that’s set to…
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Cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network has stopped all withdrawals, imperiling the savings of 100,000 users. From The Wall Street Journal: A few months ago, Mike Washburn’s cryptocurrency investment looked like a winner. Now he’s just hoping to get his money back. Mr. Washburn, a 35-year-old plumber in Otsego, Minn., had $100,000…
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In what’s begun as a tough year for cryptocurrencies, Solana has attracted more investors than any other coin. The high speed network landed $6 million in inflows so far this year. Larger competitors like Bitcoin and Ethereum have seen outflows in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. What…
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Everyone loves Ethereum, right? It’s widely used and has a ton of code already out there for developers to slot into their projects. But there’s one problem. Ethereum can only process about 15 transactions per second. And the huge amount of computing power needed has gotten expensive. Some transactions can…
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Solana is all the rage in cryptocurrency markets these days. Its price is doing this: Looking at that chart, it would be easy to think that this new cryptocurrency is all hype and speculation. But I spent the afternoon digging into its capabilities as a platform, and they are incredible:…
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Tremendous 