Posts tagged komgo
Blockchain progress through the lens of Binance's $180MM profit and Greensill's $1.5B SoftBank raise
Blockchain progress through the lens of Binance's $180MM profit and Greensill's $1.5B SoftBank raise

Look at the difference between (1) building out the crypto asset class, and (2) operating infrastruture for a blockchain-based digital economy. There are so many little logic pot holes into which you could fall! There are so many things one could believe that make the whole thing make no sense at all! I am anchoring around two primary data points -- a Multicoin report about Binance's financial progress and its massive (though unaudited) $180 million profit in Q3 of 2019, and a post by supply chain company Centrifuge about marrying cashflow financing with the decentralized web.

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crypto, exchanges / cap mkts, enterprise blockchain, supply chain / trade, regulation & complianceLex SokolinBinance, Greenshill, MakerDAO, Centrifuge, Debitum Network, SoftBank, Vauban, Pirate Bay, BitTorrent, Netflix, komgo
You don't get to cheat just because you like to win -- on WeWork, Politics, and Fintech
You don't get to cheat just because you like to win -- on WeWork, Politics, and Fintech

Feelings and emotions at industry events matter. The narrative at the more traditional conferences is that Fintech innovation is just incremental improvement, and that blockchain has struggled to bring production-level quality software and stand up new networks. This isn't strictly true -- see komgo, SIX, or any of the public chains themselves -- but the overall observation does stand. Much of Fintech has been channeled into corporate venture arms, and much of blockchain has been trapped in the proof-of-concept stage, disallowed from causing economic damage to existing business.

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DAOs, decentralized finance, venture capital, philosophyLex SokolineToro, Defire, Actus Protocol, komgo, SIX, SIBOS, WeWork