Bank fines since 2008: $243B Crypto market cap: $134B Which one is used for illegal activities again?

1/ We @ElectricCapital fingerprinted more than 20,000 code repos and 16M commits to create a Dev Report on crypto. Analyzed by @MariaShen (better known internally as "Maria Meeker"). Data powered by @jubos. Here are the highlights ⚡️

Ten Years of Bitcoin Evaluating its performance as a monetary system MIT Bitcoin Club The next 1010 years. Nic Carter. A successful first decade. coinmetrics.io. Bitcoin’s looming fee market • On everyone’s mind: what will transaction fees have to reach to…

Samsung will sell 40m Galaxy S10 phones in 2019 S10s are now shipping w/ an Ethereum Wallet For scale: S10 sales in 2019 alone are almost 20x the total number of Ledger & Trezor wallets ever sold This is how mainstream happens Screenshots rolling in: htt…

Even billionaires are acknowledging it, folks. When 40% of Americans can’t afford basic needs, or a $400 emergency, the problem isn’t unique. It’s systemic. That’s not good for anyone. Even billionaires know they can’t shield themselves from this kind of…

GENEVA (AP) - At the ripe old age of 30 and with half the globe using it, the World Wide Web is facing growing pains with issues like hate speech, privacy concerns and state-sponsored hacking, its creator says, trumpeting a call to make it better for humanity.…

This chart highlights why the German govt is orchestrating a merger of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank. #Germany's 5y default probability trades in tandem w/ Deutsche Bank's default risk as Deutsche is too big too fail and so doom loop alive & kicking.

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UCSF scientists have used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system to create the first pluripotent stem cells that are functionally “invisible” to the immune system.

The CFTC has settled its enforcement action against 1pool Ltd. for illegally offering retail commodity transactions margined in bitcoin, failing to register as a futures commission merchant, and failing to implement an AML/KYC program. Exchanges, beware.…

Nym Technologies, a stealth startup sporting a roster of privacy activists and cryptography experts, plans "to anonymize the world."

Scientists find evidence of a huge blast of radiation from the Sun that hit Earth more than 2,000 years ago.