Year in Review 2019


Tecnología

For Quick Wins, Focus on Decentralization Within Existing Businesses

Instead of creating new solutions to replace existing businesses with decentralized ones, startups should focus on improving existing businesses using decentralization.

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Tecnología

3 Under-the-Radar Product Trends for 2020

Here's what 1confirmation partner Richard Chen is expecting to pop in the new year.

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Mercados

An Identity Layer for the Web Would Identify Us Everywhere

With the digital subsuming our reality, an identity layer for the web would be an identity layer for our lives.

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Mercados

2019 Set the Stage for DeFi to Go Mainstream

DeFi's biggest strength is the ability to recreate itself and scale endlessly without regulatory approval.

Lou Kerner is Advisory Board Member at Blockchain Coinvestors

Regulación

A Decade of Quantitative Easing Has Paved the Way for the Age of Digital Currency

Ten years of central bank quantitative easing have fostered big distortions in the global financial system, setting it up for a major architectural shift.

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Mercados

Crypto Must Embrace the Fringe to Win Over the Mainstream

Leaders should ask who is under-served by the current financial system and how blockchain addresses those needs.

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Mercados

With So Much Debt Around, Investors Need Bitcoin as a Reflation Hedge

Market prices don't reflect rational decisions and central banks can hardly manage inflation. That's where bitcoin comes in.

Ari Paul, CIO and managing partner at BlockTower Capital

Regulación

The Central Bank Business Model Is Under Attack

Libra spurred central banks into action on digital currency projects this year.

Jalak Jobanputra, founder of FuturePerfect Ventures, at Consensus 2018 in New York.

Mercados

Charlie Shrem: What I Still Love About Crypto

A early pioneer in the crypto space reflects on the past year.

Charlie Shrem is the former founder of BitInstant and co-founder of cryptocurrency intelligence service CryptoIQ.

Regulación

How Decentralized Tech Can End the Privacy Crisis in 2020

If we’re not careful, blockchain will be remembered for perfecting the surveillance economy.

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