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The Future Of Crypto-currency With Founder Of Ethereum.org And BitcoinDecentral.ca at bitcoin decentral

Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon and Balaji Srinivasan discuss the state of the Bitcoin ecosystem now that the Mt. Gox dust has settled. What's next in crypto-currency, and a theory on Bitcoin creator Satoshi (not Dorian) Nakamoto. 

a16z Podcast: The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi

It’s well understood that bitcoin can be used to buy and sell things/services, and the ecosystem of people accepting the cryptocurrency as payment is expanding. But what else can we use the underlying protocol for? How can we expand the same system that enables bitcoin-the-currency to flow and transactions to be recorded? This discussion (from the a16z Academic Roundtable 2014) examines that question, and answers why the currency is just the beginning of the story when it comes to this technology. You can watch video of the entire discussion here: http://a16z.com/2014/10/24/the-bitcoin-network-effect/

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This content is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should consult your own advisers as to those matters. References to any securities or digital assets are for illustrative purposes only, and do not constitute an investment recommendation or offer to provide investment advisory services. Furthermore, this content is not directed at nor intended for use by any investors or prospective investors, and may not under any circumstances be relied upon when making a decision to invest in any fund managed by a16z. (An offering to invest in an a16z fund will be made only by the private placement memorandum, subscription agreement, and other relevant documentation of any such fund and should be read in their entirety.) Any investments or portfolio companies mentioned, referred to, or described are not representative of all investments in vehicles managed by a16z, and there can be no assurance that the investments will be profitable or that other investments made in the future will have similar characteristics or results. A list of investments made by funds managed by Andreessen Horowitz (excluding investments and certain publicly traded cryptocurrencies/ digital assets for which the issuer has not provided permission for a16z to disclose publicly) is available at https://a16z.com/investments/.

Charts and graphs provided within are for informational purposes solely and should not be relied upon when making any investment decision. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The content speaks only as of the date indicated. Any projections, estimates, forecasts, targets, prospects, and/or opinions expressed in these materials are subject to change without notice and may differ or be contrary to opinions expressed by others. Please see https://a16z.com/disclosures for additional important information.

a16z Podcast: Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain

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At just 20-years young, Vitalik Buterin is one of the most brilliant minds in the cryptocurrency space. Previously, a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, he has conceptualized Ethereum, the most radical and ambitious cryptocurrency project since Bitcoin. After raising $18m in a crowdsale, a team of over 30 are working on launching the project by March 2015. In his work on designing a system for the future, he has been grappling with many of the hardest problems in the cryptocurrency space over the past year.

In a fascinating discussion, we covered:
- How Ethereum has evolved since the white paper
- The problems of Proof-of-Work
- Why Proof-of-Stake is the future of consensus protocols
- Why his main focus has been on consensus issues and scalability
- Why Bitcoin will never be stable enough to price things in
- The flawed ideology of ‘Bitcoin maximalism’ that prevents people from considering Proof-of-Work alternatives

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- Ethereum: http://ethereum.org
- How to get started: Your first DApp in under one hour: https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1402/how-to-get-started-your-first-dapp-under-one-hour
- Ethereum Proof-of-Concept 7: https://github.com/ethereum/cpp-ethereum/wiki
- Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity/
- Slasher: A Punitive Proof-of-Stake Algorithm: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/01/15/slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm/

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EB58 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Proof-of-Stake, The Future Of Bitcoin

Chris Clark discusses the blockchain's potential to disrupt the financial industry, from contracts to mortgages to government taxation.

Blockchain and decentralization hold big implications for society

Conrad Barski on the bitcoin and blockchain landscape and how the technology will evolve over the next 10 years.

For more on the interview, visit O'Reilly Radar: oreil.ly/15A9cCp

Bitcoin's road to democratization lies in decentralization

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As the cost of computing continues to plummet, the number of connected devices is increasing dramatically. In the future powerful computing capacity will be in billions of devices ranging from the lightbulb to the car door to new wearables. This new internet of things (IoT) will dramatically change our lives. 

Paul Brody, a Technology Strategist and the former VP of Mobile and IoT at IBM, joined us for a discussion of where the IoT is going. We discussed their white paper on why a decentralized, blockchain-based internet of things could solve the problems of the current IoT in terms of privacy, scalability, and business models.

Topics covered included:
        - What the Internet of Things and its core value proposition is
        - Why the current IoT business models are broken
        - How a decentralized IoT infrastructure would be more secure, scalable and economically feasible
        - What role the blockchain could play in a decentralized IoT
        - The three components of IBM’s ADEPT proof-of-concept


Links mentioned in this episode: 

- IBM Democracy of Devices Whitepaper: http://ibm.co/1HKIVAF
- Paul Brody IFA Talk: http://bit.ly/1aJYLOp
- IBM Empowering the Edge Report: http://ibm.co/1EiZlAF
- IBM Empowering the Edge Use Cases: http://ibm.co/1H7b0TM
- IBM & Samsung ADEPT Demo at CES: http://bit.ly/1zAXDTL

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EB75 – Paul Brody: Internet Of Things And The Democracy Of Devices

There are few things as old as financial catastrophe, except maybe finance. But in the latest fiscal meltdown in Greece, people started asking questions about whether newer technology -- bitcoin and the underlying blockchain -- could help. One of those was Wall Street Journal columnist Christopher Mims.

In this episode of the pod, Mims and Coinbase CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong talk about the current state and future possibility of bitcoin and the bitcoin blockchain. When it comes to Greece -- or the next financial snafu -- Armstrong and Mims think there is potential for bitcoin to help, but some education and UI mainstreaming needs to happen first.

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This content is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should consult your own advisers as to those matters. References to any securities or digital assets are for illustrative purposes only, and do not constitute an investment recommendation or offer to provide investment advisory services. Furthermore, this content is not directed at nor intended for use by any investors or prospective investors, and may not under any circumstances be relied upon when making a decision to invest in any fund managed by a16z. (An offering to invest in an a16z fund will be made only by the private placement memorandum, subscription agreement, and other relevant documentation of any such fund and should be read in their entirety.) Any investments or portfolio companies mentioned, referred to, or described are not representative of all investments in vehicles managed by a16z, and there can be no assurance that the investments will be profitable or that other investments made in the future will have similar characteristics or results. A list of investments made by funds managed by Andreessen Horowitz (excluding investments and certain publicly traded cryptocurrencies/ digital assets for which the issuer has not provided permission for a16z to disclose publicly) is available at https://a16z.com/investments/.

Charts and graphs provided within are for informational purposes solely and should not be relied upon when making any investment decision. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The content speaks only as of the date indicated. Any projections, estimates, forecasts, targets, prospects, and/or opinions expressed in these materials are subject to change without notice and may differ or be contrary to opinions expressed by others. Please see https://a16z.com/disclosures for additional important information.

a16z Podcast: Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency

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Close to two years after the initial whitepaper, the revolutionary Ethereum network has finally launched. The decentralized smart contract platform is, without a doubt, the most exciting cryptocurrency project since Bitcoin. The versatile platform with its turing-complete scripting language aspires to power the distributed applications of the future.

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin joined us for the second time to discuss the Frontier Launch, future plans for scalability, governance and the road ahead for the organization and the protocol.

Topics covered included:
- Ethereum's frontier launch and the upcoming development stages
- The plans for how to create a scalable blockchain architecture
- The thinking around transitioning to proof-of-stake
- The state and new board of the Ethereum Foundation
- How Ethereum's development will be funded in the longer term
- His thoughts on the governance of Ethereum and Bitcoin
- When private blockchains make sense and if Ethereum
- What mistakes were made during the development of Ethereum

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EB91 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Frontier Launch, Scalability And The Road Ahead

Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities. Show notes are found at

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XCP Weekly Update #12 - BitcoinXT Released

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In a long-overdue episode, we finally had the chance to dive into one of the most known but poorly understood cryptocurrency/blockchain project: Ripple. Reviled by many in the Bitcoin space, we put aside any prejudices and sat down for a fascinating conversation with Ripple Labs CTO Stefan Thomas.

We talked about his early days in the Bitcoin space, how Ripple came about, what the Ripple network looks like today and how its consensus protocol works.

Topics covered included:
- Stefan Thomas' early experiences in the Bitcoin space
- How Ripple was created
- The problem Ripple is trying to solve
- How the Ripple consensus algorithm works
- Whether Ripple is decentralized or not
- What the correspondent banking system is and how Ripple wants to disrupt it
- The recent FinCen fine and what it means for Ripple

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- Ripple http://bit.ly/1hgMTaV
- Ripple Labs http://bit.ly/1Msvnfe
- Ripple Labs Fined $700,000 by FinCen http://bit.ly/1WwHyMx
- Richard Gendal Brown:  The Deep Insight at Ripple's Cores http://bit.ly/1UMG7YC
- Peter Todd Ripple Protocol Consensus Algorithm Review http://bit.ly/1hgN0U0
- Ripple Consensus Protocol Whitepaper http://bit.ly/1HQ4202

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EB92 – Stefan Thomas: Understanding Ripple

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With Proof-of-Stake (PoS) a blockchain is secured not by spending an external resource such as electricity but by using value internal to the chain itself. The promise of higher security at a lower cost is what also drives Ethereum to plan a move away from Proof-of-Work to PoS in the future.

Ethereum researcher Vlad Zamfir, who leads their effort in the complex search for the optimal PoS consensus system joined us for an in-depth discussion of the challenges of PoS, the approach Casper is taking and what consensus in Ethereum land could look like in the future.

Topics covered included:
- How he became interested in consensus and Proof-of-Stake (PoS)
- Why Ethereum plans to switch to the PoS systems Casper in the future
- What the Long-Range Attack and Nothing-at-Stake problems are and how Casper addresses them
- How a betting mechanism is used to get validators to reach consensus
- What centralization pressures exist for validators and what operating a validator will look like
- The role of security deposits in Casper
- The difference between Tendermint and Casper
- Whether forks create big UI/UX issues for Casper
- Why Casper is very light client friendly

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Introducing Casper - Ethereum Blog http://bit.ly/1ONermJ
- Review of Casper, Ethereum’s proposed Proof of Stake Algorithm http://bit.ly/1YcWG1G
- Casper Protocol Specification http://bit.ly/1Nzi8GI
- Slasher, Ghost and Other Developments in Proof-of-Stake http://bit.ly/1NziInC
- Epicenter Bitcoin Episode 58 with Vitalik Buterin on Proof-of-Stake http://bit.ly/1PKdHNK

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EB105 – Vlad Zamfir: Bringing Ethereum Towards Proof-Of-Stake With Casper

When computer scientist Andreas Antonopoulos first heard about bitcoin in 2011 he dismissed it as “nerd money.” Six months later he happened on bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s now-legendary white paper from November 2008. This nine-page, innocent-looking document was a blueprint for replacing large swaths of the financial services industry with a globally-distributed encryption-based transaction network that wasn’t owned by anyone. 

Nakamoto’s white paper blew Antonopoulos’ mind. “This isn’t money,” he realized, “it’s a decentralized trust network,” with applications extending far beyond digital currency.

Antonopoulos says he became “obsessed and enthralled” with bitcoin, “spending 12 or more hours each day glued to a screen, reading, writing, coding, and learning” as much as he could. He wrote, “I emerged from the state of fugue, more than 20 pounds lighter from a lack of consistent meals, determined to dedicate myself to working on bitcoin.”

Five years later, Antonopoulos’ work has paid off. The 43-year-old entrepreneur is one of the most respected experts in bitcoin and blockchain technology, and he regularly shares his expertise with businesses and organizations around the world. His 2014 book, Mastering Bitcoin, was called the “best technical reference available on bitcoin today,” by Balaji Srinivasan, the CEO of 21.co, and received high praise from Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation.

In January 2016, Institute for the Future launched Blockchain Futures Lab, a research initiative and a community for “identifying the opportunities and limits of blockchain technologies and their social, economic, and political impacts on individuals, organizations, and communities over the coming decades.”

I interviewed Antonopoulos to get his thoughts on the current state of blockchain technology and where it’s headed. What he had to say was surprising and enlightening.

Bitcoin is a Sewer Rat

In Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Rushkoff examines the reasons why the digital economy – which was touted as a great democratizer – has left so many people behind, including even those within the tech industry. He lays out an alternate vision for a sustainable prosperity system he calls “digital distributism,” which makes use of the kind of peer-to-peer mechanisms that power Uber and Airbnb in a way that “optimizes the economy for the velocity of transactions between people rather than the accumulation of capital from people.” The role of blockchain technology to enable peer-to-peer  transactional networks figures heavily in the brave new digital distributism world, says Rushkoff, because it allows individuals and small groups to route around the rent-seeking gatekeepers who corrupted the eco-system in the first place.

Amazon is Just Walmart on Digital Drugs

The second generation of the Internet is here. As the rise of the Internet of value and blockchain increases, it’s on course to radically change the structure of businesses, democracies, and politics. In this Episode 6: The Blockchain Revolution, Tom chats to Don Tapscott, a leading thinker on the social and economic impact of tech. 

Right now, society is experiencing a crisis of legitimacy, which has created a period of many opportunities but also great danger. From Brexit in the UK to the new Trump administration in the US, the electorate are now displaying great mistrust in the political system. Previously, people believed that the system was good, even though they didn’t agree with who was in power. These days, that isn’t the case. Our model of democracy, which was once ideal for an industrial age, is no longer viable and citizens are fed up of being passive recipients of mass distribution and mass marketing. 

And this crisis of legitimacy isn’t just affecting our politics. It is apparent in most global problems, from climate change to poverty to the music industry. Don explains how multi-stakeholder networks could go on to govern these issues, much in the way that they have now turned the Internet into a self-governing ecosystem. Using the same idea of self-governing stewardship, we could see blockchain move from its infancy to become a highly Internet of Value.

Episode 6: The Blockchain Revolution with Don Tapscott and Tom Serres

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Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin joined us once again to discuss the state of Ethereum and the efforts to innovate the protocol. We covered the takeaways from the DAO fork, switching to the proof-of-stake system Casper and how to think about blockchain interoperability.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- - Lessons from the DAO hack
- - The security flaws of Proof-of-Work
- - Why Proof-of-Stake will provide more security and scalability
- - The state of Casper and transition timeline
- - Blockchain interoperability

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Ethereum Foundation: https://ethereum.org/
- Ethereum R&D Roundup Valentine's Day: https://ethereum.org/2017/02/14/ethereum-rnd-roundup-valentines-day-edition/
- December Development Roundup: https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/31/december-roundup/
- R3 Chain Interoperability Paper: http://www.r3cev.com/blog/2017/1/23/chain-interoperability
- Epicenter 58: Ethereum, Proof-of-Stake and Future of Bitcoin: https://epicenter.tv/episode/058/
- Epicenter 91: Frontier Launch and Scalability: https://epicenter.tv/episode/091/

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171 – Vitalik Buterin: DAO Lessons, Casper and Blockchain Interoperability

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For a long time the native asset of the Ripple network XRP was the cryptocurrency with the second biggest market cap. But with much of the supply controlled by Ripple, it remained surrounded by controversy. Still, XRP remains an interesting asset to enable cross-border payments in the future. Miguel Vias recently joined Ripple after a long career on Wall Street to develop XRP as a liquid and widely accepted asset.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- How Miguel Vias went from trading precious metals to XRP
- The similarities between precious metals and cryptocurrencies
- The role Ripple sees for XRP
- The connection between XRP and interledger
- Why the FinCEN fine changed Ripple’s course
- XRP’s role in cross-border payments
- How Miguel is trying to create liquid markets for XRP

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Ripple Website: https://ripple.com
- CME Group Executive Miguel Vias Joins Ripple | Ripple: https://ripple.com/insights/cme-group-executive-miguel-vias-joins-ripple/
- Ripple and R3 Team Up with 12 Banks to Trial XRP for Cross-Border Payments 
| Ripple: https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-and-r3-team-up-with-12-banks-to-trial-xrp-for-cross-border-payments/
- Q4 2016 XRP Markets Report | Ripple: https://ripple.com/xrp-portal/xrp-resources/q4-2016-xrp-markets-report/
- Welcome | Interledger: https://interledger.org/
- FinCEN Fines Ripple Labs for Bank Secrecy Act Violations: http://www.coindesk.com/fincen-fines-ripple-labs-700000-bank-secrecy-act/

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175 – Miguel Vias: XRP's Future for Cross-Border Payments

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For the very first time, all three Epicenter hosts found themselves in the same location. After attending Ethereum's DevCon 3 in Cancun, we were at a Cosmos Retreat and discussed the conference, retreat, state of the Ethereum ecosystem and recent Parity hack. 

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Recap of Ethereum's DevCon 3 conference
- Current state of Ethereum
- The most interesting new projects at DevCon
- The post-DevCon Cosmos retreat
- The internet of blockchain thesis
- The case for blockchain's having sovereignty
- The massive loss of funds due to Parity's flawed multisig contract
- The pros and cons of an Ethereum hard fork

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Ethereum Developers Conference (Devcon3): https://ethereumfoundation.org/devcon3/
- Cosmos - Internet of Blockchains: https://cosmos.network/
- Many Chains One Ecosystem Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/SunnyAggarwal2/tendermintcosmos-many-chains-many-tokens-one-ecosystem
- Many Chains One Ecosystem - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN_SAX73AMg&feature=youtu.be
- Ethereum Client Bug Freezes User Funds as Fallout Remains Uncertain - 
CoinDesk: https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-client-bug-freezes-user-funds-fallout-remains-uncertain/
- Parity Multi-Sig Wallets Deployed After 7/30 Issue : ethereum: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7bchez/parity_multisig_wallets_deployed_after_730_issue/
- Security Alert – Parity Technologies: https://paritytech.io/blog/security-alert.html

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#208 : Post DevCon3 Roundtable: State of Ethereum, Cosmos Retreat and Parity Hack

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Decentralized exchanges have been a holy grail in the cryptocurrency space, since at least the MtGox hack. They promise to derisk the act of exchanging cryptocurrency by leaving custody of funds in the hands of the users. And they should be resistant to regulatory pressure, creating a permissionless way to trade cryptocurrencies. 

Among decentralized exchange projects, 0x has gained by far the most traction in the short time since launching. Co-founders Will and Amir joined us to discuss the 0x protocol, the emerging 0x economy and the vibrant community they've built.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- How Will and Amir started 0x
- The definition of a decentralized exchange and why decentralized custody is key
- The 0x architecture
- Why 0x built a protocol and not just a decentralized exchange
- The role and business model of relayers
- The 0x token and its economy
- The 0x governance process

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- 0x: The Protocol for Trading Tokens: https://0xproject.com/
- 0x Whitepaper: https://0xproject.com/pdfs/0x_white_paper.pdf
- Front-running, Griefing and the Perils of Virtual Settlement (Part 1): https://blog.0xproject.com/front-running-griefing-and-the-perils-of-virtual-settlement-part-1-8554ab283e97
- Front-running, Griefing and the Perils of Virtual Settlement (Part 2): https://blog.0xproject.com/front-running-griefing-and-the-perils-of-virtual-settlement-part-2-921b00109e21


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#222 Amir Bandeali & Will Warren: 0x Protocol and the Decentralized Exchange Frontier

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The rise of Binance is one of the most astonishing stories in the blockchain space. Within less than a year of its launch, Binance has become the most popular crypto exchange trading over $2bn per day. In the past quarter, Binance made profits of $200m, likely the fastest company ever to reach this success. 

Binance Founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao ("CZ") joined us to discuss why he started Binance and the extraordinary organization they built. We discussed the role of the Binance token, how their strong commitment to values helped build a loyal community, and how he sees the organization evolve in the future. 

Topics discussed in this episode:
- CZ's journey in the blockchain space from blockchain.info, to OKCoin to founding Binance
- The astonishing rise of Binance to $200m/quarter profits in <1 year
- How Binance went from deciding to do an ICO to finishing it in 2 weeks
- Why strong values are a key differentiator for Binance
- How Binance built a vibrant and loyal community
- The critical role of the Binance token in its success
- The principles CZ uses to run an efficient distributed organization
- How regulatory competition is rapidly improving the conditions to build crypto companies
- Binance's plans to build a decentralized exchange

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Binance Website: https://www.binance.com/
- From Zero To Crypto Billionaire In Under A Year: Meet The Founder Of Binance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamelaambler/2018/02/07/changpeng-zhao-binance-exchange-crypto-cryptocurrency/#6dc89f421eee
- The World's Biggest Crypto Exchange Is Heading to Malta: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-23/the-world-s-biggest-cryptocurrency-exchange-is-moving-to-malta
- Binance CEO: The Future of Cryptocurrency - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XNRTfPgZI
- Binance Whitepaper: https://www.binance.com/resources/ico/Binance_WhitePaper_en.pdf
- I Don't Like Big ICOs: https://steemit.com/binance/@czbinance/5mm9uo-i-don-t-like-big-icos
- ICOs — Not Just “Good-to-Have,” But Necessary: https://medium.com/binanceexchange/icos-not-just-good-to-have-but-necessary-543916b7e76

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#235 Changpeng Zhao: The Meteoric Rise of Crypto Exchange Binance

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