1/ If you're new, here are some must-read resources on bitcoin, ethereum, defi, web 3.0, and the future of crypto.

Tools to join the revolution. 👇

1/ @Square buys $50M of #Bitcoin w/ its balance sheet 🚀

let's untangle what corporate treasurers do and why this matters...

the role of corp treasurer didn’t exist until the 1970s, when co's faced high inflation and financial uncertainty

2/ in this environment, companies with no cash management or treasury strategy were losing 10-12% / yr to inflation

modern corporate treasury is typically focused on cash management and managing the opportunity cost of capital

holding cash is *not* a strategy

3/ when i worked in corp treasury, we mostly traded the overnight and short term rate markets

we could earn a nice 3-5% return in these very low-risk assets w/ time preference

treasurers today are living in a radically different world!

RATES ARE 0

TARGET INFLATION IS >2%

4/ faced with this new reality, corporate treasurers (and all investors) are looking at alternatives

#Bitcoin is a highly liquid asset that trades 24/7 in an increasingly regulated and structured global market - and its an effective portfolio diversifier!

5/ Square’s willingness to hold bitcoin on its balance sheet as a treasury asset speaks to:

(1) the changing landscape that treasurers must navigate, and;
(2) their ability to manage the operational, risk, and compliance requirements of holding bitcoin directly

|1| I have seen a lot of tweets emphasizing the partnership between @iotatoken and @renaultgroup. It's a great compliment for IOTAs tech, but everyone who ...

#IOTA #greentech #ElonMusk #Bitcoin

|2| is following IOTA more closely should not be surprised at all.

All the recent partnerships are probably hard to grasp for the outsiders/disappointed, but ...

|3| it is not like the management behavior is something one can not change easily. The IOTA Foundation grew through the defeats it experienced.

IOTA is ...

#Bicoin

|4| no more a realm of promises.

While the media and public judged over IOTA, they put in years of research into #coordicide

While the media and public categorized IOTA as failure (many of them to this very day), they kept fighting for ...

#research #DLT

|5| their vision and continued with their Imagination of "DLT 3.0":

--> removing the need of miners,
--> scalable,
--> feeless,
--> data/value layer,
--> governance model mitigating growing centralization,
--> ...,

#ResearchPaper #DLT #trilemma

Hello and good Friday, January 28, 2021, I’m Drew and this is Rocketboom [chair breaks]

I see many people are missing why ‘digital currency’, e.g. #Bitcoin is an important disruption in the world. It's not actually about stock trading. It’s waaaaaaaaaay bigger than that.

I USED TO DO A THING. I wrote scripts to break down these kinds of topics. I felt compelled to come back out and explain because its such a big idea...and too many people are not seeing it.

TLDR; Digital currencies allow people living in impoverished nations to transcend the failures of their individual governments, such that their work and purchase power becomes more equal in potential to those in the wealthiest countries.

Examples are always nice. Lets. [cut to voice over]

Unmasking the Deceased Programmer Who Donated 28 Bitcoin to Capitol Hill Rioters. https://t.co/EOrIu7x4J6

French far-right hacker Laurent Bachelier aka "pankkake"