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

ByAnton Shmerkin May 11, 2020May 18, 2020

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

ByAnton Shmerkin May 11, 2020August 2, 2020

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…

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

ByAnton Shmerkin May 1, 2020

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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Seedrs Feature Any Investor Should Know About: Referral Program, Secondary Market

ByAnton Shmerkin April 27, 2020April 27, 2020

Word-of-mouth referrals is what makes crowdfunding work. Incentivising others to help spread the word about a crowdfunding campaign enables equity issuers to tap into a much broader network than they would otherwise have access to, and Seedrs does it best by far. Essentially, the referral scheme on Seedrs is this: once someone signs up to…