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Transcript: Matt Levine

Barry Ritholtz

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? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like people who were like kind of rebuilding the financial system from scratch.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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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. It’s like being asked to figure out the solution to one of those unsolved math problems that mathematicians work on for years before they go insane.

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Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin

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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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Filtering Down To The Most Impact-Weighted Work To Add Value

CFO News Room

So just most technology has been a little bit more either the pipes and infrastructure of how the financial system runs or something that lets people buy the products that they want to buy because they can just go online and buy it. And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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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. In concept. At least I hope so. Pitchbook reports that ICOs have raised $1.3