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Crowd-sourced equity funding to open up for DIY funds
DIY super funds and other investors will soon be able to invest in start-ups and small companies through "crowd-sourced" equity funding platforms. These are the minnow unlisted companies of which some, at least, if only they had access to capital, could go on to great Read More...
How new home crowdfunding pay may let millennials live American dream
American Millennials are making the news once again. This time, it’s because the demographic as a whole can’t afford to purchase homes. According to a recent survey by Apartment list, a staggering 80% of Millennials, those born between the years 1980 and 1995, express that they want to Read More...
Women are the big boss of crowdfunding, says study of 450,000 campaigns
So you want to raise money for your company. What's the next step? It might depend on your gender, if you can believe the latest crowdfunding report from Price Waterhouse Coopers. Their finance team analyzed 450,000 seed crowdfunding across several platforms over two years. While men get most of Read More...
Women are way better than men at crowdfunding, study says
In Silicon Valley, venture capital funding still overwhelmingly favors men. Male investors often don't fully understand the value of ideas women entrepreneurs pitch them. They throw capital at food delivery service after food delivery service, but ignore ideas that cater to groups they're not Read More...
A South African startup is using bitcoin to turn digital pirates against each other
The scholarly environs of the New Media research lab at Stellenbosch University in South Africa gave rise to a diabolically clever plan to deal with video piracy in 2015: Lure pirates with bitcoin to find out the source of the contraband material. That project has become the basis for a startup Read More...
Are you ready to consider that capitalism is the real problem?
Eight men in the world currently control as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population. Does that seem like a fair system to you? Take a look at this opinion piece that might make you reconsider whether capitalism is the system that’s best suited to build our future Read More...
Swiss ‘Crypto Valley’ is leading the way for digital currency startups
In Zug, a tiny Swiss town 20 miles south of Zürich with million-dollar Alpine views, a small machine is doing big things. One of the 10 bitcoin ATMs installed across Switzerland by Zug-based Bitcoin Suisse, the machine accepts Swiss francs and euros in exchange for a slip of paper with a code Read More...
Ethereum is changing the way we think about cryptocurrency
Alex Tapscott is chief executive of NextBlock Global. Bitcoin is the mother of all cryptocurrencies, and the most famous of them. Created by a person or people using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, it defined the algorithms that enable the transfer of assets from one party to another without an Read More...
Trust me: Read this to understand the problem that Blockchain will solve
In recent months we have published several stories explaining the blockchain-cryptocurrency phenomenon. We will continue doing so because digital currencies are going to have a major impact on how we are going to live and work together. This is another good analysis. Please read all 3,500 words. Read More...
Can you buy anything real with Bitcoin? On the streets, it proves a hard sell
My journey into the dark economy starts much as expected: in front of a computer screen, late at night. It ends somewhere quite unexpected, in a humdrum setting a world away from the stereotype of modernity, equality and sticking it to the man promised by digital currencies such as Bitcoin: it ends Read More...