As you may have heard, earlier this week, CoinMarketCap held its first ever conference — The Capital — in Singapore. One of the event’s keynote speakers was Jennifer Ilkiw — vice president of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Asia Pacific. ICE — …
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Bitcoin ETF Could Help Stabilize the Market: Paul Atkins Backstage at The Capital
Paul Atkins, the former commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Robert Greene, a visiting research fellow at the Center for Digital Financial Assets at Tsinghua University, spoke to The Capital backstage yesterday, during day two of CoinMarkCap’s …
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CMC’s The Capital in Singapore: Top 10 Highlights
CoinMarketCap’s inaugural conference, The Capital, took place November 12-13 at the Victoria Theatre in Singapore. In case you weren’t able to come to Singapore, here are the top ten things that happened over the two-day conference. The Capital has ended, …
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‘Proof-of-Stake Is a Joke’: Samson Mow Backstage at The Capital
Blockstream’s Samson Mow was fairly quiet during the panel “Proof-of-Work, Halving and the Future of Mining” on day two of CoinMarketCap’s The Capital conference. But he sat down with The Capital backstage afterward and shared some of his thoughts more …
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Michael Arrington Backstage at The Capital: ‘Bitcoin Is Money and Nothing Else Is’
Michael Arrington, founder and former editor of TechCrunch, as well as partner at Arrington XRP Capital, spoke to The Capital backstage after a relatively heated panel discussion. During the panel — the last one of day one — he called …
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CoinMarketCap’s The Capital Day 2: Crypto Regulation, User Privacy and New Tech
Welcome to day two of CoinMarketCap’s first conference, The Capital. The sun is out in Singapore today and the air is hazy over the Marina Bay Sands. As usual on the second day of any conference (at least in crypto), …
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Day 1 of CMC’s The Capital: Top 5 Things That Happened
The first day of CoinMarketCap’s inaugural two-day conference, The Capital, fittingly ended with a conversation about the future potential — or lack thereof — of the top 100 crypto projects. In case you missed that panel or any others, we …
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Jeremy Allaire Backstage at The Capital: ‘I Can See the 10x Improvement’ in Crypto
After speaking in a panel on the role of crypto in finance at CoinMarketCap’s The Capital today, Jeremy Allaire chatted with us backstage. We spoke to the Circle CEO and founder about blockchain adoption versus awareness, unintended consequences of tokenization …
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Binance’s CZ on the Key to Crypto Mass Adoption: Backstage at The Capital
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, more commonly known as “CZ,” stopped to talk backstage on the first day of The Capital conference by CoinMarketCap. He spoke about the problem of fake volumes on crypto exchanges, the importance of openness and transparency …
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CoinMarketCap’s The Capital Day 1: Masked Speakers, CMC’s Liquidity Metric, Top Exchanges
You walk into the smallish (seats 600) late-19th century Victoria Theatre in humid, November Singapore. Find an empty spot among the plush maroon seats that slope downwards to the stage. Two seated figures — both in Guy Fawkes masks, seemingly …