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King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
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Brett Scott • Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
By moving identities on-chain, we could upend archaic financial processes and provide equitable access to capital, re-architect how talent is matched with projects, and provide entirely new paradigms for recognizing and compensating labor online.
Scott Kominers • Decentralized Identity: Your Reputation Travels With You - a16z crypto
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Many DeFi advocates anticipate a future world of peer-to-peer uncollateralized lending on blockchains, allowing crypto holders to lend and cut out fees charged by banks for credit scoring, monitoring and payment. Good luck with that. Fintech lending holds some clues since the industry uses AI tools to make uncollateralized lending decisions, and th... See more
JP Morgan • The Maltese Falcoin | J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Sam explained that he was trying to decide whether to simply pay off the $9 billion Bahamas national debt himself, so the country could fix their roads and build schools and so on. He’d recently met with the new prime minister to discuss this idea and some others. I learned later from one of the prime minister’s aides that after the Bahamian genera
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Engineer Paul Baran made a number of breakthroughs that are relevant to the public, decentralized technologies to this day, including “message blocks” (a component in blockchain technology) and advocacy for private digital networks via cryptography.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
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