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We Asked New Yorkers What the Price of Bitcoin Will Be at the End of 2019 and Here’s What They Had to Say

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2018 was a tumultuous year for bitcoin, starting the year at $13,950 coming off all-time highs close to $20K and ending the year at $3,896 down 72% for the year.  We chatted with a few Bitcoin experts to learn more about where they think Bitcoin will be at the end of 2019 and the reasons for […]

The Two Reasons Why The Forecasts For Bitcoin YE 2018 Were So Horribly Wrong

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As the chart above shows, the biggest names in crypto all got 2018 horribly wrong. Why were they so wrong? I think they’re all smart guys and I applaud their work and the important contribution they’re making to the ecosystem. I think there are two main reasons why they’re so bad. 1. Accurately Predicting The […]

This NYC Startup Combines The Decentralized Spirit of Crypto with The Power of Journalism

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Social journalism is gaining widespread popularity, and CoinScribble is the latest company to try and capitalize on the concept. Initially, the newly launched platform is focused on news from the cryptocurrency industry but has plans to create a network where anyone can post to CoinScribble’s platform for free.  The platform allows for the publishing of […]

The 10 Stupidest Things Nouriel Roubini Said In His Testimony To The US Senate Committee on Banking

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I assume Nouriel Roubini is a smart guy. So is Warren Buffet. It doesn’t mean I’d want them to do heart surgery on me, because it’s not their thing. My guess is, they’d have no interest in performing heart surgery because they know it’s not their thing. So, just because someone’s smart, doesn’t mean they understand crypto. […]

The Coming Epic Battle Between Crypto & FAMGA (aka Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, & Amazon)

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Crypto is a new computing paradigm, poised to create more disruption and wealth creation in the next 20 years, than the internet has in the last 20. The question I face as a VC is who is going to capture that massive wealth creation? The wealth creation can either go largely to the five incumbents […]

If You Like Decentralization, You Should Love Hard Forks

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If decentralization is to realize it’s potential, various problems need to be addressed. Scalability issues get the most attention and have the most people working to solve it. So my assumption is that scalability is getting solved. The bigger issues with decentralization are Token Economics and Governance & Consensus. While people are working on those problems, it’s […]

The Crypto Bloodbath isn’t a Bloodbath, it’s a …….

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This is the 60th crypto related post I’ve written since I saw the crypto light on June 29th, 2017. My most read piece remains “7 Thoughts On Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & Decentralization After Three Months Down The Rabbit Hole”.The 5th thought in the piece, which tried to give context to the remarkable run-up in crypto prices […]

This NYC Startup Introduces People to Bitcoin in The Most Practical and Noninvasive Way

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There’s a growing trend towards online shopping, but not everybody is invested in Bitcoin or comfortable with cryptocurrency. That is why Coinback was created to familiarize people with Bitcoin while shopping online. The company has developed the only browser extension that enables users to earn up to 15% back in cryptocurrency on their purchases. In […]

Blockchain without the BS

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We at Social Starts and Joyance Partners see distributed trust networks (aka blockchain) as one of the most powerful technological ideas in decades. It’s an idea on a par with TCP/IP, the backbone of today’s internet, in the long-term impact it can have. Tech innovation from innumerable directions points toward blockchain-like requirements as an essential. […]