Spencer Dinwiddie is not “rich” by professional athlete standards. Currently, he makes around $1 million a year before taxes from his NBA contract. The 38th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft at the age of 21, Dinwiddie has already played on three professional teams. Currently, he plays for the Brooklyn Nets and has a […]

It has been discovered that fake Adobe Flash updates are being used to surreptitiously install cryptocurrency mining malware on computers and networks, creating severe losses in time, system performance, and power consumption for affected users. Cryptojacking Breaks New Ground While fake Flash updates that push malware have traditionally been easy to spot and avoid, a […]

In a move that clearly shows the government’s resolve to encourage investments in cryptocurrencies, Switzerland’s financial markets regulator has opened the floodgates for institutional participation in cryptocurrencies. Zug-based Crypto Finance AG subsidiary Crypto Fund AG becomes the first company to get the green light from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) to offer a wide range of blockchain-based assets […]

By Patrick Hall I had lunch recently with an investor who expressed frustration about founders of startups and scale-ups. They are not a fund partner, nor VC or from the Private Equity world. No, they actually built a business of value and lived it for the whole journey through to an ultimate sale and cash out […]

By David Devils Do your homework and get to know these six things about the people you’re going to be borrowing money from. When you’ve hung out with company founders as much as I have, you’ve inevitably heard the following line: “I have a big meeting coming up.” Because the entrepreneur got the appointment, he’s […]

By Burt Dixon This is the script for a public lecture I gave at the American University of Rome in Rome, Italy on October 4, 2018. Since I ad-libbed a bit as I talked, it’s not a perfect representation of the lecture, but it’s about 90% there. This was followed by a Q&A with moderator Kyla […]

By Adrian McDermott Digital displays are part of everyday life. We come across them when we step out of homes. They are getting ubiquitous by the day. Let’s try and understand how interactive digital signage at retail destinations helps both buyers and sellers. No longer are such displays viewed as an attractive or gimmicky marketing […]

A region home to 4 million people in Northern Syria is looking to cryptocurrency as a way to overcome economic sanctions. Rojava, also known as the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, has spent the last six years at war for its territory. Now under a fragile peace, the region is under economic sanctions from all […]

Starting next week, Venezuelans will have to pay their passport fees with the petro, the controversial state-supported cryptocurrency that is allegedly backed by oil. This was announced in a press conference on Friday, Oct. 5, by the country’s vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, ahead of the coin’s official launch in November. This follows a similar press release by President […]

Google’s past relationship with bitcoin and cryptocurrency has been fraught, to say the least — last month the search giant partially rolled back its ban on advertisements for cryptocurrencies, allowing regulated cryptocurrency exchanges to buy ads in the U.S. and Japan. The move was widely put down to regulators’ progress in reining in the “wild west” […]