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@rebeccamqamelo Feb 7, 2019, 2:52 AM UTC

This Podcast Made Me Question Everything

Anand Giridharadas discusses the moral calculus by which we trust the market to save us and challenges the narrative that the wealthy need to do more good as opposed to doing less harm. “You can have…

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@rebeccamqamelo Jun 20, 2018, 3:10 AM UTC

Time to Face the Cold, Hard Truth about Crypto Exchanges

On June 19, 2018, Bithumb, one of Asia’s largest crypto exchanges, lost $30 million worth of cryptocurrency in a system hack. When the announcement broke at 1 AM UTC on June 20, the cryptocurrency ma…

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@rebeccamqamelo Jun 12, 2018, 8:42 AM UTC

Reality Check: It Doesn't Matter Whether Bitcoin "Exists" or Not #1

It’s time to put crypto currencies in perspective Garet Garrett, editor of the New York Tribune, wrote in 1932: “Mass delusions are not rare. They salt the human story.” He had written the book “A Bu…

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@rebeccamqamelo Feb 14, 2018, 9:49 PM UTC

The Messianic Symbol Gets Real: Blockchain in Africa

Chris Bates is the Chief Security Officer of Bitland, a company that is putting in the grueling legwork of applying blockchain to real-world problems. His message is clear: you can’t escape the middl…

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@rebeccamqamelo Feb 3, 2018, 3:09 AM UTC

Blockchain Lessons from Ukraine

Anastasia Green describes herself as a blockchain maker, tech entrepreneur, and chatbot diva. She is the co-founder and CEO of Aura, a decentralized professional network for the blockchain industry.…

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@rebeccamqamelo Dec 29, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

The Crypto Diaries: Blockchain in Africa

SAN FRANCISCO – The International Monetary Fund recently published a document suggesting that banks around the world seriously consider investing in blockchain and cryptocurrencies as a means of adap…

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@rebeccamqamelo Dec 20, 2017, 12:16 AM UTC

The Crypto Diaries

If you haven't heard about blockchain technology, you're living under a rock. By now, most of us have adverts popping up on our newsfeed that tell us had we bought just $10 worth of Bitcoin 5 years a…

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@rebeccamqamelo Dec 5, 2017, 11:09 PM UTC

Homo Deus

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari is one of those books that leaves you reeling and perplexed, stimulated and energised, yet wondering, “What on earth are we supposed to do?” In 400-odd pages of world h…

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@rebeccamqamelo Dec 4, 2017, 4:22 PM UTC

On Storytelling, Ancestors and Algorithms - A Conversation with Ernesto Reyes

SAN FRANCISCO - Ernesto Reyes describes himself as “a spoken word artist, a socially conscious, social-justice- driven Latino male who seeks to create community through love, activism, and critical l…

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@rebeccamqamelo Nov 16, 2017, 5:49 PM UTC

Notes from SF: The Emergence of Beauty

SAN FRANCISCO – There is a wall in San Francisco that astounds me. It isn’t because of the vibrant graffiti one sees in the Mission District. It isn’t part of the unique architecture of places like t…

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