News from financial industry
I’m an advisor to a number of firms, including several in the crypto space such as Elrond (eGLD coin). When I signed on as an advisor more than two years ago, Elrond was almost completely unknown, which wasn’t surprising as they were based in Romania. I thought the Romanian base was a positive, however, because […]
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Among his other achievements, he is the Chairman and co-founder of Moderna. Here is the audio and video and transcript. Here is part of the summary: He joined Tyler to discuss which aspect of entrepreneurship is hardest to teach, his predictions on the future of gene editing and CRISPR technology, why the pharmaceutical field can’t […]
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That is the top of my latest Bloomberg column, another link here, here is one excerpt: The Indian government has a proposal, called the “One Nation, One Subscription” plan, to buy bulk subscriptions of the world’s most important scientific journals and provide them free to everyone in India. Given the porousness of the internet, and […]
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As many of you will expect, I am fine with their decision. Furthermore I think they made it at exactly the right moment. Questions for those who think that Twitter made the wrong decision: 1. Can you state your margin? That is, what would Trump have to do for you to think that Twitter should […]
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Comments section reform is coming to MR. Yes, we will replace you. Soon (but not today). Habermasian freedom shall reign and the sun will shine ever so brightly!
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That is the title of a new paper by Isaiah Hull, Or Sattath, Eleni Diamanti, and Goran Wendin. Much of it I did not understand, but maybe you will. Here is one excerpt: Our overview of quantum money starts with a full description of the original scheme, which was introduced circa 1969, but only published […]
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I think your column agrees with my mental model in that the actual crypto networks may not be regulated, but the on-ramps and off-ramps will be heavily regulated (and already are). If you are an exporter being paid in crypto assets by a Nigerian importer, the obvious thing to do is hedge that crypto against your currency […]
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I will be doing a Conversation with him, in case you do not know Brian is co-founder and CEO at Coinbase. So what should I ask him? And to be clear, this is the conversation I want to have with him, namely one that maximizes my selfish learning, not your mood affiliation. Here is the […]
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Maybe it is different for you, but when I search Amazon for “D.M. Knight, Science and Spirituality”, I get this mess — no listing of the book! If I pop the same into Google, the Amazon listing for the book comes up third. So more and more I am using Google to search on Amazon […]
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Most of it was about China, but here was my favorite part: The key to reading Proust is not to pay too much attention to the plot. It’s of no great import, and one has to get used to abrupt shifts. In this way the novel is like Moby-Dick, which can shift from the politics […]
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