CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Blockchain. As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). Huge corporations — like Walmart and Pfizer — have completed successful blockchain pilots. Research Briefing: Blockchain in Review.

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JULY 5, 2019

The Facebook Libra whitepaper states that Association Members must agree to operate as validators on the network. What isn’t helping – and I am sure that Facebook has had this same thought – is bitcoin’s surge post-Libra’s launch. Among other things, that will depend on what it means to be an Association Member.

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CB Insights

MAY 29, 2018

The number of new unicorns is also substantially higher when blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, cryptoasset companies, and organizations using token financing to raise funds are considered. This contrasts with equity investments in private and public markets, where voting rights and cash flows are standard.

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JULY 1, 2019

Square Cash enables P2P payments and takes in funds – now including bitcoin deposits. A year later, in May of 2018, Facebook launched a new blockchain business unit, and Marcus was put in charge to lead it. The Facebook Libra whitepaper states that Association Members must agree to operate as validators on the network.

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JULY 6, 2017

Blockchain technology has been making its way through the financial sector and pouring into mainstream industries for the last few years. It’s gaining so much traction that even higher education institutions like the University of Edinburgh are adding blockchain technology classes to their curriculums.

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APRIL 30, 2018

A whitepaper released on Thursday (April 26) said that regulatory burdens should be reduced for smaller firms. According to the whitepaper, IPOs have become unattractive to businesses. Bitcoin, conversely, should be exempt from those laws. Speaking of IPOs, lobbyists in the U.S.

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JULY 15, 2019

It has been about a month since Facebook pulled back the curtain on its vision for Libra – a blockchain-backed cryptocurrency with the lofty aim of connecting the 1.7 To ward off the currency speculators that have tended to plague high-profile crypto projects like bitcoin , Libra will be a stablecoin, with its value pegged to the U.S.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Except that’s not what the Libra whitepaper says. The first two sentence in that whitepaper goes like this: “Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. Particularly when it’s not at all clear that the people Libra says it launched its network to help – those 1.5

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