MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin allocations came at the beginning
MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin allocations came at the beginning of the recent mainstream financial trend around the digital coin. A number of other mainstream giants publicized their Bitcoin investments following Saylor’s moves, including Square and MassMutual. MicroStrategy bought even more Bitcoin in December — $650 million worth. Saylor made numerous bullish comments about Bitcoin throughout 2020, lighting up Twitter with bizarre threads that caused some commentators to wonder whether they could...
MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin allocations came at the beginning
MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin allocations came at the beginning of the recent mainstream financial trend around the digital coin. A number of other mainstream giants publicized their Bitcoin investments following Saylor’s moves, including Square and MassMutual. MicroStrategy bought even more Bitcoin in December — $650 million worth. Saylor made numerous bullish comments about Bitcoin throughout 2020, lighting up Twitter with bizarre threads that caused some commentators to wonder whether they could...
Bitcoin, if it’s not a hundred times better than gold
Biography: Michael Saylor, the head of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, went from bashing Bitcoin in 2013 to being one of the digital asset’s most enthusiastic proponents in 2020. Coming from a military background, Saylor excelled in school, earning multiple degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Also a pilot, Saylor spent a period of time with the United States Air Force Reserve. He founded MicroStrategy in 1989. Saylor’s 2020: In August, MicroStrategy publicized buying...
Bitcoin, if it’s not a hundred times better than gold
Biography: Michael Saylor, the head of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, went from bashing Bitcoin in 2013 to being one of the digital asset’s most enthusiastic proponents in 2020. Coming from a military background, Saylor excelled in school, earning multiple degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Also a pilot, Saylor spent a period of time with the United States Air Force Reserve. He founded MicroStrategy in 1989. Saylor’s 2020: In August, MicroStrategy publicized buying...
Furthermore, the total transaction volume across
urthermore, the total transaction volume across various Ethereum-based DeFi platforms increased from 11 billion in 2019 to an insane 256 billion in 2020, thus clearly showcasing a growing need for decentralization-based finance solutions globally. Commenting on the rise of blockchain tech and where it will take us in 2021, Buterin opined that big corporations and other “complex forces” are leading more and more people to understand that cryptocurrencies and blockchain-enabled platforms are ex...
Furthermore, the total transaction volume across
urthermore, the total transaction volume across various Ethereum-based DeFi platforms increased from 11 billion in 2019 to an insane 256 billion in 2020, thus clearly showcasing a growing need for decentralization-based finance solutions globally. Commenting on the rise of blockchain tech and where it will take us in 2021, Buterin opined that big corporations and other “complex forces” are leading more and more people to understand that cryptocurrencies and blockchain-enabled platforms are ex...
Had we known that it would end up taking us years
Had we known that it would end up taking us years, we probably would have designed the roadmap differently and thought about what the different teams would be working differently... making a lot of decisions in that regard in a very different way from how we are now, so, I think, definitely a lot of regrets and wasted time.” Lastly, in his recently published 2020 endnote, Buterin threw shade at gold: “Gold is lame, the younger generations realize that it’s lame and that $9 trillion has to go ...
Had we known that it would end up taking us years
Had we known that it would end up taking us years, we probably would have designed the roadmap differently and thought about what the different teams would be working differently... making a lot of decisions in that regard in a very different way from how we are now, so, I think, definitely a lot of regrets and wasted time.” Lastly, in his recently published 2020 endnote, Buterin threw shade at gold: “Gold is lame, the younger generations realize that it’s lame and that $9 trillion has to go ...
When the project ran into various setbacks and
When the project ran into various setbacks and development issues in mid-2020, especially in regard to Ethereum’s rising gas prices, the outspoken programmer didn’t shy away from community criticism, going on record to say that Ethereum’s developers “hadn’t really been ding a good job of setting [gas rates] from the beginning.” Furthermore, he highlighted how the project’s core developer base had greatly underestimated the technical aspects of various issues being faced by the Ethereum ecosys...
When the project ran into various setbacks and
When the project ran into various setbacks and development issues in mid-2020, especially in regard to Ethereum’s rising gas prices, the outspoken programmer didn’t shy away from community criticism, going on record to say that Ethereum’s developers “hadn’t really been ding a good job of setting [gas rates] from the beginning.” Furthermore, he highlighted how the project’s core developer base had greatly underestimated the technical aspects of various issues being faced by the Ethereum ecosys...
