Should You Start Angel Investing?
Something I haven’t written much about in the past, but am planning on writing more about, is angel investing. Frankly I didn’t write much about it cause I didn’t know that much—I only started angel investing after I started Fintech Today, and I was still learning on the fly. But there’s a ton of demand…
Read MoreWork Life Balance Advice From A Workaholic
Let’s talk a little bit about work life balance today. I do want to preface some things: I’m probably a workaholic and I have really weird working patterns. My ideal day on the east coast starts around 10AM, and I break up the day into 4-5 hour chunks of time, with probably 1-2 breaks in…
Read MoreDOJ is coming for crypto scams—Will FTX Buy Blockfi?
FTX Blockfi & Robinhood SBF is an absolute beast. Rumor-wise, this was a big week for FTX, the Bahamas-based crypto exchange. The company is worth ~$32 billion based on a January 2022 fundraise and has a ton of cash in the bank. And with crypto as an ecosystem seeing a massive correction over the past…
Read MoreThemes for Global Fintech & Crypto Adoption
Cobalt Capital’s Ben Futorinsky shares some critical themes he thinks will shape the future of fintech and crypto, and propel both to widespread global adoption. Theme: Identity, Fraud and Risk Management to Enable the Future of Crypto Both retail and institutions will need transparency, security and predictability to reduce high decline rates, false-positives, price volatility…
Read MoreFTX Leads Distressed Crypto Buyouts, But Who Else Can Follow?
I’m glad I decided to wait though—Monday afternoon, Bloomberg reported that FTX was thinking about making a play for Robinhood, the publicly traded stock trading app currently worth $8 billion. This is on top of FTX extending Blockfi a $250 million credit line and lending Voyager Digital $485 million consisting of cash and bitcoin through…
Read MoreMoonPay Launching NFT Minting Platform
Heyyyy everyone. Honestly I was going to say “Happy Friday” but it’s a shitty Friday—the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade allowing for states to ban abortions. Frankly was on the fence about writing about this—I have been trying to talk/write about politics less publicly as American politics is an absolute shitshow and there’s…
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