By Laura Desmond Foul play at BitMEX? Exploring the biggest concerns Representatives of BitMEX, the largest Bitcoin exchange, love to show how much they care about the crypto community. When their charismatic CEO Arthur Hayes goes on CNBC to say nice things about Bitcoin, the recordings go viral on Twitter, and when the amazing BitMEX Research puts out […]

Blockchain is virgin territory, a new frontier. Getting there first, exerting influence, and dominating the market matters. England, France, Spain, and Portugal all knew this when the New World was discovered. America knew this with global force projection after WWII, and most recently, the internet. But like all history, the empires of the past are […]

How twisted can things get when an anonymous piece of code harms people but can’t be stopped? Two cinematic masterpieces offer us devastating answers and lots of food for thought: Dr. Strangelove (1965). In this Stanley Kubrick classic that takes place at the height of the cold war, an American General loses his mind and […]

By Laura Desmond This week at the Crypto Invest Summit, Spice VC’s partner Ami Ben-Davidunveiled his vision for Ownera, a new blockchain for security tokens. Ami was kind enough to brief me on his ideas for Ownera months ago and I’ve been thinking about the subject ever since. The concept of a new blockchain for crypto-securities is far […]

The State of The Market — October 23, 2018 BTC: $6,477.03 (-0.65%) ETH: $202.96 (-1.24%) XRP: $0.4436 (-2.13%) Bitcoin continues to move sideways, fluctuating between $6,450 and $6,550. However, Ethereum has managed to maintain its price above $200. With most major cryptocurrencies in red, the total market cap experienced a minor dip, going from $212 Billion to […]

Ride-hailing app Careem has secured $200 million in fresh funding. The first tranche of its Series F round, which is expected to exceed $500 million, was led by existing investors including Al Tayyar Group, Kingdom Holding, Rakuten and STV. Founded in 2012, Careem claims to have 30 million registered users in over 120 cities in the […]

By Laura Desmond It isn’t uncommon for the total trading volume of all cryptocurrencies to easily hit 20 billion USD, and the world is struggling to create ways for this money to be spent outside of exchanges. While the methods of spending cryptocurrencies is certainly growing with physical stores, websites, and the like, there is […]

ICO hype took its last breath in July and the market is finally becoming more clever, providing a great opportunity for real projects with real ideas. The ICO 2.0 era is finally here. We at agency.howtotoken.com have started a platform that aims to achieve the following goals: Make prices for ICO services transparent Build a network of […]

And that place might be social media Much like the late comedian George Carlin, Gene Petrov wanted “a place for my stuff.” For Petrov, that locale was online. “I found my place on social media and you can too,” he said. Petrov taught himself social media and marketing. Now he runs his namesake Gene Petrov Leadership and Marketing Consulting. […]

  Artificial Intelligence. Genetic Engineering. Autonomous Vehicles. Blockchain. Virtual Reality. The mere mention of these technologies is good enough to conjure utopian visions of a society so empowered by technology that our current problems vanish- at least in the minds of uninformed. Talk to the experts or critics and you may hear a different tale […]