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Wire app gets Video Calls and Full end-to-end Encryption

Posted on 10. March 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

The 'Wire' staff at Medium: Video calling has consistently been our top requested feature. Today, we are happy to introduce video calling on Wire for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. That is not all. We are also fundamentally changing the way … [Continue reading]

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“What Happened At The Satoshi Roundtable”

Posted on 6. March 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, at Medium: I realized we all had a much bigger problem: the systemic risk to bitcoin if Bitcoin Core was the only team working on bitcoin. The core team contains some very high IQ people, but there are some … [Continue reading]

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“Announcing Blockstack: Decentralized DNS and Identity for Blockchain Applications”

Posted on 25. February 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Albert Wenger (USV): Many things are exciting about Blockstack including the fact that it is fully operational today. But also that it has been designed from the ground up with the capabilities that we would and should expect from such a system, … [Continue reading]

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“Spotify CEO says Apple, Google, Amazon ‘don’t like partnering’”

Posted on 19. February 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Stuart Dredge at Music Ally: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek doesn’t do many interviews, but he spent a fair amount of time yesterday answering questions on Q&A site Quora in one of its “sessions” – its equivalent to Reddit’s Ask Me Anything … [Continue reading]

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“Walled Garden”

Posted on 19. February 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Kieran Healy: Apple has historically been a company with a strong desire for control and a keen eye towards its own interests, as perceived in the light of that desire to control things. That has led them to the “Walled Garden” in the older sense. … [Continue reading]

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“London-Based Curve De-Cloaks With All Your Bank Cards In One, And Broader Fintech Convergence Play”

Posted on 18. February 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

TechCrunch: “Although this unbundling has introduced greater efficiencies and a better cost basis for both consumers and businesses, it has also perpetuated and exacerbated the fragmentation that underpins the financial landscape,” explains Curve … [Continue reading]

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“Priorities in a time of plenty”

Posted on 16. February 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Horace Dediu at Asymco: Looking at Apple this way gives the impression that the company has a large number (nearly a billion) of repeat (subscribed to service) customers. These customers can be seen to spend a predictable recurring amount (average … [Continue reading]

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“The Problem with Regulation”

Posted on 15. February 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Ben Thompson at Stratechery: Regulations are one of the most effective moats incumbents have because they already have the infrastructure and revenue streams to deal with them Regulatory capture, in which incumbents have overdo influence on what … [Continue reading]

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U.S. ISPs Keep Investing, Despite Having Said They Couldn’t Under Net Neutrality

Posted on 10. February 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Consumerist looks at the investment rate of ISPs after the US had passed the 'New Internet Order' (net neutrality): By and large, the half-dozen companies representing the overwhelming majority of cable Internet and wireless broadband customers … [Continue reading]

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Wired’s $1 per Week for Ad-free Website is Too High

Posted on 10. February 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Charles Arthur at The Overspill on Wireds ad-free website for $1 a week1: [Wired:] "For $1 a week, you will get complete access to our content, with no display advertising or ad tracking." This presumes that adblocking readers will accept … [Continue reading]

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