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Gitcoin Grants Round 6 Retrospective

Vitalik Buterin

This time around, we had three categories: the two usual categories of "tech" and "community" (the latter renamed from "media" to reflect a desire for a broad emphasis), and the round-6-special category Crypto For Black Lives. About that EIP 1559 Community fund.

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Twitter Talk from FinDEVr 2017 New York

Fintech Labs Insights

But with FinDEVr London only a few months away, we’re already looking forward to seeing what the international developer community is doing to drive innovation in financial technology. Now let’s relive a little of that social media magic from FinDEVr 2017 New York.

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Why Peer-to-Peer models struggle against oligopoly

Lex Sokolin

The media industry has been able to deploy a business model that uses the Internet to deliver a better user experience when bundled with the law. It is a worse user experience to avoid it. The core premise at its founding was to recreate the dynamics of the sharing and social media revolutions.

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Blockchain Tracker: Impacting The Sharing Economy?

PYMNTS

At the core of the sharing economy is a sense of community through creating access to items for a specific period of time. This is a rudimentary understanding, of course, but it serves to underscore the idea that blockchain is an ideal foundation for a variety of network-centric economic models, both of these included.”.

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The Four Blind Spots Costing Big Retail Big Bucks

PYMNTS

Of course, it’s not as though these larger retailers don’t have data – they do. The advantages, of course, are that these larger retailers are able to efficiently and accurately manage and track inventory, manage and track customers, and manage and optimize store operations, among other things, throughout their physical channels.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

Then, they spent an equal amount of time working on distributing that content both through social media (Reddit, personal finance forums) and through SEO (which wound up driving about 20% of Mint’s overall traffic). It can burden users with excessive information and friction that ruins the user experience.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. In 2006, amidst high user growth and revenue numbers, several firms took part in Facebook’s Series B: Founders Fund, Interpublic Group, Meritech Capital Partners, and Greylock Partners backed the $27.5M

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