Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

And so the thing we were doing was sort of solving like often securities law or tax or accounting problems for people with like derivatives. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? Everything is securities fraud.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. Is it a stealth startup from Silicon Valley? Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Visa, and many of the most valuable startups, like Uber, are multisided platforms. The Next Big Fizzle: Blockchain Startups.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. Japan has clamped down on them, with complaints, naturally, that regulations make it too hard for startups to operate.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure.

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