Coinbase's Vision Beyond Bitcoin (video)

Coinbase's Vision Goes Beyond Bitcoin

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong talks about the future of the U.S.'s biggest cryptocurrency exchange. Fortune.com video above published Sep 28, 2018:

Coinbase (coinbase.com) is a privately held digital currency exchange headquartered in San Francisco, California, brokering exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and Litecoin with fiat currencies in over 30 countries, and bitcoin transactions and storage in 190 countries worldwide.

• CEO: Brian Armstrong (Jun 20, 2012–)
• Founded: June 2012
• Founders: Brian Armstrong, Fred Ehrsam

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Amazon AWS & ConsenSys New Blockchain Partnership Kaleido (video)

Amazon Moves Into New Blockchain Partnership

CNBC.com video above published May 15, 2018: Amazon's cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to make it easier for customers to use blockchain with a new partnership with ConsenSys to provide a service called Kaleido, that radically simplifies the creation and operation of private blockchain networks.

AWS Marketplace: Kaleido Blockchain Platform | aws.amazon.com: "Kaleido, a ConsenSys solution, is an all-in-one enterprise SaaS platform that radically simplifies deployment and operation of secure private chains. Beyond scripts and templates, Kaleido is designed to accelerate the consortium's entire journey from experimentation and PoC to pilots and production."

Press release: ConsenSys Unveils Kaleido in Collaboration with Amazon Web Services to Simplify Enterprise | prnewswire.com: "Kaleido is the first Software-as-a-Service featuring popular Ethereum packages Geth and Quorum, and is offered in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Additional first-of-a-kind capabilities include linking between private networks and the public Ethereum mainnet, integrated analytics, and support for multiple protocol options and consensus mechanisms. The platform runs on AWS and provides clients the ability to seamlessly connect to other popular AWS services, reducing the cost of real-world projects that often require complex integrations."

ConsenSys + Ethereum

ConsenSysMedia video above published Jan 18, 2018: ConsenSys is working to build a decentralized future on the Ethereum Blockchain.

The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. 600+ developers, entrepreneurs, creatives, lawyers, technologists, and more combine to form @ConsenSys. We want to help build the #Ethereum ecosystem. These are our current 47 projects. https://t.co/pgFseY8svq

— Joseph Lubin (@ethereumJoseph) February 26, 2018

Looking forward to presenting the closing keynote at the Blockchain for Social Impact Conference in DC, hosted by @ethereum4impact. A lot of different companies and speakers coming together to leverage #blockchain for people who need it most. https://t.co/qimuym1n67 pic.twitter.com/yFZ8c6Dzf5

— Joseph Lubin (@ethereumJoseph) May 18, 2018

ConsenSys: Blockchain studio building decentralized applications on Ethereum
Founder: Joe Lubin
Headquarters: Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Domain: consensys.net
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Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2018

Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2018
February 13 - 15, 2018
The Palace Hotel  •  San Francisco, CA

Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2018 (free registration required): On Demand Presentations now available at link above [Editor's note: I definitely recommend listening to the session with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter Inc.]

#GSTech2018

"We're not a social network" Dorsey at #gstech2018 pic.twitter.com/QCZQSxiJHb

— Justin Tsai (@theJustinTsai) February 13, 2018

"We want to be a daily utility" @jack at #gstech2018 on Twitter pic.twitter.com/LIajov9bnY

— Justin Tsai (@theJustinTsai) February 13, 2018

Etherium is the internet counterculture. Like a cactus in a rainforest. -crypto panel #gstech2018

— Micah Rosenbloom (@micahjay1) February 13, 2018

“Twitter is not a social network. We moved from a people network to an interest network, a network of ideas. We now leverage machine learning and deep learning.” @Jack Dorsey at #GSTech2018 today. “We serve the public conversation, but we see a lot of abuse and misinformation.” pic.twitter.com/DTFhgI43oa

— Steve Jurvetson (@dfjsteve) February 13, 2018

Getting a small dose of the macro perspective on tech at the Goldman Conf - something we don’t do often as seed VCs #gstech2018

— Micah Rosenbloom (@micahjay1) February 13, 2018

$1bn per quarter = @googlecloud business. It’s a nice time to be in the enterprise 💰. #GSTech2018

— phungtion1 (@helen_phung) February 13, 2018

“AI consumes most of the compute cycles at Google, and it is growing. AI is the most exciting place in all of high tech. Analog chips would be the lowest power. The human brain is remarkably power efficient” — Andy Bechtolsheim at #GSTech2018

90% of code is computer generated. pic.twitter.com/FxKCq0QkeB

— Steve Jurvetson (@dfjsteve) February 14, 2018

First day:

• Adobe - Mark Garrett EVP & CFO
• Alarm.com - Steve Valenzuela CFO
• Alphabet - Diane Greene CEO, Google Cloud
• Apptio, Inc. - Sunny Gupta CEO
• Arista Networks - Jeff Raymond Vice President, EOS Product Management & Services
• Atlassian - Ian Lee  
• Avnet - Phil Gallagher President Core Distribution
• Citrix Systems, Inc. - David Henshall
• Cognizant - Karen McLoughlin Chief Financial Officer
• Corning Incorpoated - Dr. Jeffrey Evenson Sr VP & Chief Strategy Officer
• eBay Inc - Devin Wenig President & CEO
• Expedia, Inc. - Alan Pickerill CFO
• FireEye - Kevin Mandia CEO
• Fortinet - Ken Xie, CEO & Keith Jensen, Interim CFO
• GoPro, Inc. – Nicholas Woodman, Founder and CEO & Brian McGee, CFO
• IDTI - Brian White Sr VP and CFO
• Juniper Networks - Ken Miller CFO
• Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. Bruce Kiddoo CFO
• Mimecast - Peter Bauer CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder
• New Relic - Mark Sachleben CFO
• NVIDIA - Colette Kress CFO
• PayPal Holdings Inc. - Bill Ready EVP, COO
• Proofpoint - Paul Auvil CFO
• ServiceNow - Michael Scarpelli CFO
• Skyworks Solutions, Inc - Kris Sennesael Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer
• Square Inc. - Sarah Friar CFO
• Texas Instruments - Brian Crutcher EVP, COO
• trivago N.V. - Axel Hefer CFO
• Twitter - Jack Dorsey CEO and Co-Founder
• Ultimate Software - Mitchell Dauerman EVP, CFO & Investor Relations
• Verint Systems - Alan Roden Senior Vice President
• Western Digital Corp. - Mark Long CFO 
• Xerox Jeff Jacobson - CEO
• Xilinx Victor Peng CEO
• Zillow Group Spencer Rascoff, CEO & Kathleen Philips, CFO

Second and Third day presentations (listed on the website at the first link above) include Oracle, Okta, Red Hat, Microsoft and more.

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Tech Review | Ethereum Co-Founder: The Future Decentralized Web (video)

Tech Review (TR 2018-01-13)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) Ethereum Co-Founder: The Future Decentralized Web, 2) Amazon $AMZN Buy Target $TGT ?, 3) Investing: The Week, Investing Notes, 4) ICYMI Tech News.

1) Ethereum Co-Founder Discusses the Future Decentralized Web

Bloomberg.com video above published Jan 9, 2018: Joseph Lubin, Ethereum co-founder, discusses the future of the decentralized web ("web 3.0"), the role digital plays, net neutrality, blockchain, and the future "explosive growth regime," as well as Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

See also:

• Cryptocurrency: US regulators to discuss Bitcoin futures trading on Jan 31--TheHill.com. See also TheHill.com: SEC warns cryptocurrency investors of rampant illegal trading.

• Bitcoin: New 'insane' ETF proposal for bitcoin generates worry on Wall Street | cnbc.com

• As Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains' transaction fees skyrocket, entire categories of decentralized apps are made impractical--TechCrunch.com.

2) Amazon $AMZN Buy Target $TGT ? Galloway Says Amazon Can Do Better

NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway discusses the potential for Amazon to acquire Target. He speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas." Bloomberg.com video above first published Jan 3, 2018.

See also:

• Commentary: 3 Reasons Amazon Will Buy Target This Year | Fortune.com

• No, Amazon Isn't Buying Target In 2018 | Forbes.com

• How Jeff Bezos' Washington Post Became The US Military-Industrial Complex's Chief Propagandist | ZeroHedge.com

3) Investing

The Week: Wall St. hits new highs on earnings optimism, data | Reuters.com

The Stock Market Never Goes Down Anymore | Bloomberg.com: "Something has changed in equities. If 2017 was a slow but steady slog, 2018 has been off to the races, with shares rising at four times last year’s daily rate on the back of Donald Trump’s tax package and gathering signs of economic strength. Forty seven companies in the S&P 500 are already up at least 10 percent this year, compared with just two down as much."

“Even if you were the bullest of the bulls, this crazy rally start to the year took you off guard ... We’ve completely run out of ways to describe what’s happening.”--Michael Antonelli, institutional equity sales trader and managing director, Robert W. Baird & Co.

Investing Notes:

• Bullish: Jamie Dimon thinks even his own economist at J.P. Morgan is dead wrong about GDP, predicts 4% U.S. growth | MarketWatch.com

• QE Forever in the Eurozone? What’s next for the euro in 2018?| MarketWatch.com: "... the eurozone has a central bank that hasn’t yet turned off the money spigot ... The European Central Bank, which meets Jan. 25, extended its tapered asset-purchase program to September 2018..." [Editor's note: a 'day of reckoning' is coming for the Eurozone.]

• China: The Biggest Threats to China’s Economy in 2018 | Bloomberg.com: "Significant economic imbalances continue to create downside risk to the outlook for 2018"--Rajiv Biswas, chief Asia-Pacific economist at IHS Markit in Singapore. See also: What can we expect in China in 2018? | McKinsey.com.

• China’s Endgame: The Path Towards Global Leadership | LawfareBlog.com.

• Hard Currency--WolfStreet.com: The world's central banks are still leery of the Chinese yuan--global officially “allocated” reserve currencies in Q3 2017 (via IMF stats)--US dollar: 63.5% share (down slightly from 64.6% in Q3 2014); Euro: 20% share (down from 22.6% in Q3 2014); Japanese Yen: 4.5% share (up from 3.6% in Q3 2014); UK Pound Sterling: 4.5% share (up from 3.75% in Q3 2014); The Australian and Canadian dollars shares of 1.8% and 2.0% respectively; Chinese yuan share only 1.1%; Swiss franc share 0.2%.

• Managing Risk Separates The Best From The Rest: “Outstanding investors, in my opinion, are distinguished at least as much for their ability to control risk as they are for generating return”--Howard Marks.

• How to Make Wealth | paulgraham.com.

4) ICYMI Tech News:

• Google's Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6 | TheVerge.com: "Chrome-only sites are a problem"--Web developers and Google's own apps diverge from open web ethos by optimizing for Google-developed standards that first ship in the Chrome browser.

• Google payment solutions, including Android Pay and Google Wallet, now under a single brand: Google Pay--Bringing it all together with Google Pay | blog.google: "Google Pay is already available on Airbnb, Dice, Fandango, HungryHouse, Instacart, and other apps and websites you love. (Be sure to take advantage of our current offers to save time and money.) If you’re a developer, visit our Payments Solutions site to see how you can implement Google Pay, or work with one of our processor partners for even simpler integration."

• Greener Pastures: Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home | Bloomberg.com

• Digital Transformations: A CEO guide for avoiding the ten traps that derail digital transformations | McKinsey.com

• On Thursday, Jan 18, 2018, the House Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection will hold a hearing at 10 a.m. ET, on the Internet of Things (IoT) and its impact on manufacturing and innovation. 

• Corning: Gorilla Glass Is Great But A Small Part Of Revenue - Corning Inc. (NYSE:GLW) | SeekingAlpha.com: "Gorilla Glass is on billions of smartphones and tablets, but it is only 9% of Corning's revenue."

• Huawei's global ambitions hit by AT&T phone distribution deal's collapse | Reuters.com: "security concerns."

• Twitter says world leaders like Trump have special status | Reuters.com

• Warren Buffett prefers flip phones -- and he's not alone | morningstar.com

• Google Can't Stop Getting Its Bikes Jacked | gizmodo.com: "no matter how rich and powerful you are, someone is still going to f*ck with your bike."

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo  

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Europol Report: 2017 Top Threat In Cybercrime Epidemic Is Ransomware

Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2017 | Europol.europa.eu--excerpts:

"... Ransomware attacks have eclipsed most other global cybercrime threats, with the first half of 2017 witnessing ransomware attacks on a scale previously unseen following the emergence of self-propagating ‘ransomworms’, as observed in the WannaCry and Petya/NotPetya cases. Moreover, while information-stealing malware such as banking Trojans remain a key threat, they often have a limited target profile. Ransomware has widened the range of potential malware victims, impacting victims indiscriminately across multiple industries in both the private and public sectors, and highlighting how connectivity and poor digital hygiene and security practices can allow such a threat to quickly spread and expand the attack vector. The extent of this threat becomes more apparent when considering attacks on critical infrastructure." (emphasis added)

"Cryptocurrencies continue to be exploited by cybercriminals, with Bitcoin being the currency of choice in criminal markets, and as payment for cyber-related extortion attempts, such as from ransomware or a DDoS attack. However, other cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Ethereum and Zcash are gaining popularity within the digital underground." (emphasis added)

Full report (pdf) embed below:

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See also: Europol: Ransomware top threat in 2017 cybercrime 'epidemic' | Reuters.com

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