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Social Distancing During COVID-19 Pandemic: Short Term Pain – Long Term Gain

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Unsurprisingly, the hashtag #socialdistancing is trending on Twitter while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the planet. Not just trending – booming. The introverted Gen Z culture has finally received a legitimate reason to stay glued to computer screens and spend little to no time outside. Gamers are now in the mainstream – downloads surge…

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7 Takeaways From CoinDesk Consensus 2019

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CoinDesk Consensus, once the industry’s Woodstock, is turning into Las Vegas for monied tourists. With the price of admission starting at $699 and rising all the way up to mid-five-figures for various sponsorship packages, CoinDesk Consensus, although still a major industry event, is quickly turning into a trivial cash cow for the organizers. I get…

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Russia’s Capital Flight To The West: Showbiz Millionaires Seek To Buy Real Estate With Crypto

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What do Russia and cryptocurrencies have in common? Both are being scrutinized very closely by the international business, both are mostly misunderstood and feared by many, yet both present some terrific entrepreneurial opportunities in the long run once appraised and regulated.  In the meantime, as the flight of fiat capital from Russia continues, the moneyed…

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The State of Neobanking: Alarming Trends and Exciting Developments to Watch in 2020 and Beyond

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If traditional banks aren’t paying attention to so-called ‘challenger-banks’ thinking that the current system is future-proof enough to withstand a few more decades of brazen disregard for the public good and common sense, they’d better think again.  Will Seemingly Immovable Objects Crumble Before Unstoppable Forces? It seems to me that quite a few institutional banks…

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Visions At the Gates of Pandemonium: Covid-19, Market Woes, Blockchain, FDR, Eloi, and Crumbling World Order

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Are you still vacillating over the possible upcoming deep recession? Don’t. We’re there, and the long-term effects of this one are going to be seismic in scale. Your choices are to stop reading and go stock up on canned foods and toilet paper or join me in figuring out how to beat this thing so…

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Who Wins the 2020 Unicorn Race?

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In 2020, the IPO market will depend less on the overall Wall Street trends judging by the fact that some unicorns struggled even when S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq were climbing to record heights. Also, finding liquidity for unicorns in the next business cycle is going to be as tough as it is today as…

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Introducing XWIN Cryptobet: The Blockchain-based Sports Betting Of The 21st Century

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Gambling gives people a natural high that many consider the ultimate entertainment. There aren’t that many analogies to the sensation you get when your pony comes in first or when your fighter knocks the other guy out. That’s why we will always bet on sports – our only real joie de vivre, something that’s over-the-top…