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Over 2.1M BTC Return to Profitability based on Realized Price, $955M in Shorts Liquidated in 24 Hrs with Bitcoin Reaching $39K: Report

As Bitcoin prices rally higher, more than 2.1 million $BTC have now “returned to profitability based on their realized price,” according to an update from Glassnode. According to Glassnode, this indicates that 11.2% of the circulating Bitcoin supply has an “on-chain cost basis between $29k… Read More

African Cross-Border Fintech Startup Chipper Cash Secures $30 Million Through Series B Investment Round Led By Ribbit Capital With Participation from Jeff Bezos’ VC Fund

  Chipper Cash, an Africa-based cross-border fintech startup, has reportedly secured $30 million through its Series B investment round, which was led by Ribbit Capital with participation from Jeff Bezos’ personal VC fund, Bezos Expeditions. This investment round comes less than six months after Chipper… Read More

Amazon. Stop Being Everything to Everybody!

  In two of my previous articles, “The Top Ten Fintech Predictions for 2018” and “Top The Fintech Predictions for 2017”,  I predicted a few things to come including The End of Privacy, Vertical Integration and What’s Your Advantage where I visualized Facebook, Snapchat, Tesla,… Read More

Amazon Patent May Allow Law Enforcement to Monitor Cryptocurrency Transactions

It has been widely reported that Amazon has been granted a patent for technology to create a streaming data marketplace. The patent was filed back in 2014 but was just approved by the US Patent office this week. You may read the Patent in its… Read More

Is Amazon Getting into Insurance? Insurtech Firm Lemonade says Amazon is Poaching their Employees

Is Amazon getting into insurance? This is a rhetorical question with a definitive yes. The only outstanding question is when. In a recent Facebook post, prominent Insurtech firm Lemonade complained about Amazon poaching their employees. Shai Wininger, Lemonade co-founder and “Chief Lemonade Maker,” said he… Read More

Alibaba Must Acquire Starbucks, WeWork, Airbnb, Uber, Tesla & PayPal

During July 2016, I was part of a delegation of US Fintech executives visiting our counterparts in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shanghai, China. We toured and visited some of the most exciting Fintech platforms in China such as LuFax, CreditEase, Tencent (the creator of WeChat),… Read More

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