If you have even a passing familiarity with Silicon Valley or cryptocurrency, you’ve likely heard of Andreessen Horowitz, one of tech’s highest-profile venture capital firms. The firm, which tech insiders call a16z, is famous in part because of its investments—Facebook, Coinbase and other familiar names—but also because of its mastery at charming (and manipulating) the […]
If you have even a passing familiarity with Silicon Valley or cryptocurrency, you’ve likely heard of Andreessen Horowitz, one of tech’s highest-profile venture capital firms. The firm, which tech insiders call a16z, is famous in part because of its investments—Facebook, Coinbase and other familiar names—but also because of its mastery at charming (and manipulating) the […]
This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to get it free in your inbox. Two hours after officially cancelling his $5.3 billion deal with Visa, Zach Perret doesn’t sound like a guy who just walked away from a lifechanging transaction (and accompanying amount […]
Good morning, and welcome back! That’s assuming, of course, that you’re among those lucky enough to have had an actual winter break, a moment of rest as we left behind the most trying year in living memory. That wasn’t the case for many of our readers, however, thanks to an 11th-hour regulatory push by the […]
Here is the internet edition of The Ledger,” Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering fiscal engineering and cryptocurrency. Subscribe here to receive it free on your inbox. Fantastic morning, Ledger readers. Now, Bitcoin finally spanned —nay, crushed –that the emotional markers of 20,000, and is currently trading about $20,600. It is a remarkable landmark for a money […]
This week marks some suspicious milestone for the fund sector: Monday was the first day of investing in NQH20a futures contract for the water. Based on CNN, this will be the initial futures contract for water {} . The offering has clear advantages, such as giving farmers greater cost transparency into a vital resource. And […]
{ The West has {} at the company empire assembled by Tencent, whose omnipresent everything-app, WeChat, undergirds so much of everyday life in China.|} And why don’t you marvel? {Between Jan. 21, 2011, once Tencent surfaced WeChat–a kind of conglomeration of both Facebook, Amazon, PayPal, and also Uber services wrapped {} a messaging program –also […]
This time of year has me feeling more than a bit nostalgic for Thanksgiving 2017. This was a simpler time, if a lot people were manically assessing the purchase cost of Bitcoin, that –as when spurred by bullish discussions at family parties –initially rocketed past $9,000, after which $10,000, just weeks following the vacation season. […]
Here is the internet edition of The Ledger,” Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering fiscal engineering and cryptocurrency. Subscribe here to have it free on your inbox. Fantastic morning. The purchase cost of Bitcoin spanned the 18,000 mark nightly, the most current in a string of landmarks that has witnessed that the cryptocurrency’s cost rise by almost […]
Here is the internet edition of The Ledger,” Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering fiscal engineering and cryptocurrency. Subscribe here to have it free from your inbox. Central banks demonstrate remarkable openness to generating state-backed digital monies within the last year or so. Dozens of these have started to learn more about the technologies, which shares several […]