Month: January 2023
If your CEO isn’t pitching to VCs, you’ll never raise money
Occasionally, in my role as a consultant, I am approached by companies that have a plan in place for their fundraising that doesn’t involve the CEO or a member of the founding team running point on the fundraising process. From one perspective, I can understand that: VC fundraising does, from the outside, look a lot … Read more
Ask HN: Should I quit my job?
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Bitcoin price breakout or bull trap? 5K Twitter users weigh in
BTC price may be riding monthly highs, but hardly anyone is sure that the good times are here to stay.
Binance to let institutions store crypto with cold custody
The new Mirror service is based on Binance Custody, a regulated institutional digital asset custodian, by mirroring cold storage assets through a 1:1 collateral on Binance.
CBDCs not worth the costs and risks, says former BoE advisor
Tony Yates, the former senior advisor of the Bank of England, argues that CBDCs are not worth the headache.
The second-gen AirPods Pro are $50 off at Verizon
The new AirPods Pro look just like the first-gen model, but what counts are the improvements on the inside. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s latest generation of the AirPods Pro are back down to their lowest price, compliments of Verizon. The noise-canceling wireless earbuds are on sale for $199.99 when you … Read more
Servo to Advance in 2023
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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Tops $21K, Outshines S&P 500, Gold
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Jan. 16, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
Adventures in Mastoland
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Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices
An increasing number of organizations are adopting microservices, the loosely-coupled, independently-deployable services that together make up an app. According to a 2020 O’Reilly survey, 77% of organizations had adopted microservices as of then, with 29% reporting that they were migrating or implementing a majority of their systems using microservices. The widespread microservices adoption has spawned … Read more
The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system
Ben Hickey / The Verge Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values. Continue reading…
Monex wants to buy FTX Japan amid bankruptcy proceedings: Report
Monex CEO Oki Matsumoto said that it will be a “very good thing” for them if there will be less competition in the market.
Beyond Good and Evil 2 development continues amidst Ubisoft cancellations
Concept art from Beyond Good and Evil 2. | Image: Ubisoft After Ubisoft canceled three unannounced projects last week alongside yet another delay for Skull and Bones, questions are inevitably being asked about the publisher’s other development-hell project: Beyond Good and Evil 2. The good news is that work on the game is still under … Read more
Wobbly clock
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Wobbly Clock!
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Bitcoin vs Ethereum: Community split between capped supply and deflationary model
Bitcoin proponents argued that Ether’s monetary policy has changed at least seven times while BTC has seen zero changes.
Google’s Android clock app now lets you record your own annoying alarm sound
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Have you ever wanted to be woken from a dreamy slumber by the sound of your partner screaming at you to get out of bed, or perhaps your parents nagging you to get up for school? Well, Google has just the app update for you. The latest Android … Read more
Bitcoin could see $25K by March 2023 as U.S. dollar prints ‘death cross’ — analysis
Bitcoin’s price recovery in 2023 has witnessed minimal institutional buying, casting doubt on whether BTC will rally beyond $25,000.
Binance Will Allow Institutional Investors to Keep Collateral Off the Exchange: Bloomberg
Institutional investors can post collateral off the grid with Binance Custody, the report said.
There’s no planet B
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Tesla rolls into a pressure cooker, Paris mulls its scooter future, and the double SPAC arrives
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages … Read more
DeFi Protocol Frontier Brings In-Browser Wallet Support for Aptos, Sui and 33 Additional Blockchains
The feature allows users to stake tokens, transfer NFTs and conduct transactions with an in-browser wallet application.