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Tue Dec 8 18:16:08 2020
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Michael Saylor has been a bitcoin evangelist and dollar doomsayer for less than 6 months. But the bits that would become his bitcoin philosophy began forming three decades ago.
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PayPal pumped excitement into the bitcoin market this year. And on the back-end of every purchase is Charles Cascarilla’s Paxos.
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The global pandemic and interwoven political and economic crises became fertile ground for Bitcoin to become a tool for human rights.
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In 2011, Jesse Powell stored digital assets for online gamers. Now, his crypto exchange has created a bank for which he helped develop the rules.
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NYDFS Superintendent Linda Lacewell is a regulator prepared to work with the grain of crypto rather than against it.
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Filecoin and IPFS creator Juan Benet is unafraid of taking on imposing problems. Like, say, rebuilding the internet.
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Described by Bloomberg as the “best investor you’ve never heard of,” Cathie Wood has made a string of smart, future-facing bets, including a big stake in Bitcoin.
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Andre Cronje founded the platform that kick-started 2020’s DeFi summer that made thousands rich. It almost broke him.
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“The PBOC that is not criticized by the public will not withstand the test of history,” the current head of the central bank says. Zhou Xiaochuan’s legacy – the digital yuan – was sidelined, until it became necessary,.
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The former Coinbase CTO sounded the alarm early about the virus. More broadly, he’s emerged as a prolific and perceptive thinker about the trust and knowledge problems crypto aims to solve.
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Hayden Adams took a $65,000 grant and turned it into a $2 billion protocol; meet the King of the DeFi Degens.
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With two new grants under her belt, Bitcoin Core’s first full-time female developer is building the future of the network.