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22 Predictions for 2022

From the Metaverse to Space Wars, it’s going to be a bumpy ride — What. A. Year. The United States Capitol was stormed in January, and storms tore through the States in December. Elon Tweeted… and Trump didn’t. A Surfside condominium went down, but at least meme stocks went up. You worked from home, and then lived from work. Bernie got dressed for winter…

Predictions

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22 Predictions for 2022
22 Predictions for 2022

May 13

Why Crypto Crashed Yesterday, in Less than 200 Words

It’s a lot easier than you think — A lot of people are incentivized to say that crypto is complicated. It is not. Here is why the market took a dive over the past 48 hours, in less than 200 words. There was a digital coin (UST) that was supposed to be a direct equivalent to 1 dollar…

Cryptocurrency

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Why Crypto Crashed Yesterday, in Less than 200 Words
Why Crypto Crashed Yesterday, in Less than 200 Words

Published in Predict

·Mar 25

How the Financial Crisis, Trump, Covid-19 & GameStop created Web3

The history of the Internet is wild… and getting wilder — The world is bursting with talks of new, exciting technologies. Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, DeFi, Metaverse… all manners of concepts have seemingly sprouted from our collective digital imagination. Alone, they are naught but fun diversions. Together, they make up the key components of Web3. Despite forceful push-back from many corners…

Blockchain

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How the Financial Crisis, Trump, Covid-19 & GameStop created Web3
How the Financial Crisis, Trump, Covid-19 & GameStop created Web3

Published in Predict

·Mar 3

These 13 Quotes from Business Leaders will Help you Better Understand Crypto

Tools to cut the bullsh*t and make good decisions — Smart people have had stupid opinions about technology ever since we invented textile machinery. With each new invention, influencers take to books, newspapers, radio, TV and, lately, social media to share their thoughts. As technology is increasingly complex, these takes become increasingly fallible. Crypto is no exception. For the past…

Startup

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These 13 Quotes from Business Leaders will Help you Better Understand Crypto
These 13 Quotes from Business Leaders will Help you Better Understand Crypto

Feb 13

Interesting points but like all other points regarding NFTs and crypto your pointing at hurdles and…
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Manoj Kumar

That's survivorship bias, mixed with some slippery slope fallacy.

That's survivorship bias, mixed with some slippery slope fallacy. You must realise that, right? Cars worked because they provided a very obvious customer benefit. But a thousand other innovations that people sweated over didn't. Take the radio newspaper. It was invented in 1939. The idea was that a radio transmission…

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Published in Predict

·Feb 13

5 Reasons why NFTs are not as stupid as they seem

This article does not contain the word “decentralization” — It seems all anybody wants to talk about nowadays is NFTs. We want to mint them, sell them, trade them, philosophise about them… all while remaining painfully unaware of financial, ecological and societal harm they cause. But enough about me and my seminal article about the profound stupidity of NFTs…

Blockchain

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5 Reasons why NFTs are not as stupid as they seem
5 Reasons why NFTs are not as stupid as they seem

Published in Predict

·Jan 29

Dear Crypto, NFTs, DAOs & Web3 fans : I have some questions

How are you guys doing? No, really. — I’m confused about Web3’s building blocks. Crypto, NFTs, the Metaverse, DAOs, Blockchain… I’ve thought about them, created them, sold them, bought them and written about them. I still don’t really get it. I bet you don’t either. Instead of looking for answers, I have resigned myself to asking questions instead…

Technology

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Dear Crypto, NFTs, DAOs & Web3 fans : I have some questions
Dear Crypto, NFTs, DAOs & Web3 fans : I have some questions

Published in CryptoStars

·Jan 29

4 Reasons why you should fear Twitter’s new NFT feature

All hail the Hexagon — A week ago, Twitter announced it is launching a service to showcase NFTs as profile photos. It is doing so by allowing Twitter Blue users to link an account to a digital wallet, which itself uses an API to access the Ethereum Blockchain, where information about a “minted” image is…

Blockchain

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4 Reasons why you should fear Twitter’s new NFT feature
4 Reasons why you should fear Twitter’s new NFT feature

Published in ILLUMINATION

·Jan 24

To Fix Higher Education, Change Its Business Model

5 ways to disrupt a $500B market — The higher education industry is absolutely broken; we’ve known this for a few decades. There are so many different ways to teach young adults, yet few of them have been considered, much less adopted, over the past 40 years. There are three reasons for this. Primarily, the government often pays…

Education

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To Fix Higher Education, Change Its Business Model
To Fix Higher Education, Change Its Business Model

Published in Predict

·Jan 23

4 Industries ready for the Next Big Thing

Warning : this article includes NFT and blockchain lingo — There’s a neat trick serial entrepreneurs and venture capitalists use to figure out which start-ups to invest their money and time into. They look at the industry within which they would evolve, and ask themselves : “does this industry operate in the same way it did back in the 1980s?”…

Startup

10 min read

4 Industries ready for the Next Big Thing
4 Industries ready for the Next Big Thing
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